Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne

The office of Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne existed from 1400 until local government reorganisation in 1974, and was reintroduced in 1996 as a title held additionally by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne. The city has a sheriff because it was historically a county corporate.

In 1950 Violet Grantham became the first woman to hold the office (becoming the first female Lord Mayor two years later), and in 2019 Councillor Habib Rahman became the first BAME person to hold the office.

William Haswell Stephenson, who held the office in 1886, commissioned a bronze statue of Queen Victoria by Alfred Gilbert to celebrate 500 years of the shrievalty; it stands in the city centre and is Grade II* listed.

Sheriffs 1400-1974
• 1399 	William Redmarshall

• 1400 	Robert Gabefore

• 1401 	John Paulyn

• 1402 	William Esyngton

• 1403 	Robert Hebburn

• 1404 	William Langton

• 1405 	-

• 1406 	William Redmarshall

• 1407 	John Bywell

• 1408 	William Middleton

• 1409 	John Wall

• 1410 	Robert Hebburn

• 1411 	John Paulyn

• 1412 	William Redmarshall

• 1413 	John Wall

• 1414 	William Middleton

• 1415 	John Strother

• 1416 	Richard Dalton

• 1417 	John Rodes

• 1418 	John Wall

• 1419 	William Ellerby

• 1420 	Robert Whelpyngton

• 1421 	Robert Swynburn

• 1422 	Richard Hall

• 1423 	John Jay

• 1424 	Laurence Acton

• 1425 	John Pray

• 1426 	Thomas Chirden

• 1427 	John Clerk

• 1428 	Simon Weltden

• 1429 	John Jay

• 1430 	Richard Hall

• 1431 	John Clerk

• 1432 	Edward Bertram

• 1433 	Thomas Chirden

• 1434 	Thomas Papedy

• 1435 	Richard Bothe

• 1436 	Thomas Wardell

• 1437 	John Chamber

• 1438 	William Lawes

• 1439 	Thomas Castell

• 1440 	William Harding

• 1441 	John Musgrave

• 1442 	Simon Weltden

• 1443 	William Jay

• 1444 	Thomas Hedlam

• 1445 	Thomas Bee

• 1446 	John Ward

• 1447 	John Ovyngton

• 1448 	Robert Baxter

• 1449 	John Richardson

• 1450 	Alan Byrd

• 1451 	Alan Carr

• 1452 	John Baxter

• 1453 	John Penreth

• 1454 	Nicholas Wetwang

• 1455 	William Rothom

• 1456 	Thomas Cuthbert

• 1457 	John Nikson

• 1458 	Robert Stevenson

• 1459 	Henry Fouler

• 1460 	Richard Stevenson

• 1461 	Nicholas Haynyng

• 1462 	Nicholas Wetwang

• 1463 	Henry Fouler

• 1464 	William Blaxton

• 1465 	Nicholas Haynyng

• 1466 	William Thompson

• 1467 	Robert Chambers

• 1468 	John Easington

• 1469 	John Coke

• 1470 	John Fisher

• 1471 	Thomas Lockwood

• 1472 	George Carr

• 1473 	Thomas Swan

• 1474 	Robert Harden

• 1475 	William Hudson

• 1476 	John Sample

• 1477 	Peter Bewick

• 1478 	John Hilton

• 1479 	John Riddesdale

• 1480 	William Scott

• 1481 	William Bewley

• 1482 	William Cunningham

• 1483 	Robert Stokhall

• 1484 	George Bird

• 1485 	Thomas Harbred

• 1486 	Robert Brigham

• 1487 	John Penrith

• 1488 	William Richardson

• 1489 	William Chambers

• 1490 	Thomas Morpath

• 1491 	Robert Harding

• 1492 	Bertram Younghusband

• 1493 	Thomas Harbred

• 1494 	Thomas Green

• 1495 	Christopher Brigham

• 1496 	William Hayning

• 1497 	William Davell

• 1498 	John Penrith

• 1499 	John Snowe

• 1500 	Thomas Riddell and William Selby

• 1501 	William Selby

• 1502 	Richard Hill

• 1503 	Robert Baxter

• 1504 	John Blaxton

• 1505 	John Brandling

• 1506 	Thomas Saunderson

• 1507 	William Harbred

• 1508 	Thomas Lyghton

• 1509 	Edward Baxter

• 1510 	Roger Dent

• 1511 	John Passhelower

• 1512 	Thomas Horsley

• 1513 	William Harding

• 1514 	Robert Watson

• 1515 	Robert Russell

• 1516 	Peter Chater

• 1517 	Nicholas Richardson

• 1518 	Thomas Baxter

• 1519 	Gilbert Middleton

• 1520 	Henry Anderson

• 1521 	George Davell

• 1522 	Robert Bartram

• 1523 	James Lawson

• 1524 	Robert Brandling

• 1525 	John Watson

• 1526 	Edward Swynborne

• 1527 	William Carr

• 1528 	Andrew Bewick

• 1529 	Bartholomew Bee

• 1530 	Roger Mitford

• 1531 	John Saunderson

• 1532 	Ralph Carr

• 1533 	William Dent

• 1534 	Peter Bewick

• 1535 	Thomas Bewick

• 1536 	John Ord

• 1537 	John White

• 1538 	George Selby

• 1539 	John Hilton

• 1540 	Robert Brigham

• 1541 	Robert Lewyn

• 1542 	Mark Shafto

• 1543 	Bertram Anderson

• 1544 	Cuthbert Ellison

• 1545 	Oswald Chapman

• 1546 	Edward Baxter

• 1547 	Thomas Scott

• 1548 	Cuthbert Blount

• 1549 	Richard Hodgson

• 1550 	Cuthbert Musgrave

• 1551 	Christopher Mitford

• 1552 	John Rawe

• 1553 	Robert Ellison

• 1554 	William Dickinson

• 1555 	John Wilkinson

• 1556 	William Dent

• 1557 	William Carr

• 1558 	Andrew Surtees

• 1559 	Robert Anderson

• 1560 	Francis Anderson

• 1561 	Stephen Southern

• 1562 	George Helye

• 1563 	Thomas Liddel

• 1564 	William Selby

• 1565 	Anthony Swinburn

• 1566 	Henry Brandling

• 1567 	John Watson

• 1568 	William Jennison

• 1569 	George Simpson

• 1570 	George Briggs

• 1571 	Henry Anderson

• 1572 	Robert Barker

• 1573 	Mark Shafto

• 1574 	Roger Rawe

• 1575 	William Riddell

• 1576 	Christopher Lewen

• 1577 	Edward Lewen

• 1578 	Henry Tennant

• 1579 	James Carr

• 1580 	Robert Atkinson

• 1581 	Henry Chapman

• 1582 	Henry Mitford

• 1583 	Roger Nicholson

• 1584 	Lionel Maddison

• 1585 	George Whitfield

• 1586 	Robert Dudley

• 1587 	Robert Eden

• 1588 	George Farnaby

• 1589 	John Gibson

• 1590 	Ralph Jenison

• 1591 	William Greenwell

• 1592 	Ralph Jenison and Thomas Liddell

• 1593 	Henry Holford and William Jenison

• 1594 	George Selby

• 1595 	Francis Anderson

• 1596 	Francis Anderson and Adrvan Hedworth

• 1597 	William Huntly

• 1598 	William Warmouth

• 1599 	James Clavering

• 1600 	Robert Anderson

• 1601 	Thomas Riddel

• 1602 	Francis Burrell

• 1603 	Matthew Chapman

• 1604 	Peter Riddel

• 1605 	Henry Maddison

• 1606 	Hugh Selby

• 1607 	Robert Shafto

• 1608 	William Hall

• 1609 	Thomas Liddel the Younger

• 1610 	Timothy Draper

• 1611 	Alexander Davison

• 1612 	Roger Anderson

• 1613 	Henry Chapman

• 1614 	John Cook

• 1615 	Robert Bewick

• 1616 	Michael Milburn

• 1617 	William Bonner

• 1618 	John Clavering

• 1619 	Robert Anderson

• 1620 	Nicholas Tempest

• 1621 	Henry Liddel

• 1622 	Robert Ledger and William Jackson

• 1623 	Henry Bowes and William Jackson

• 1624 	Lionel Maddison

• 1625 	Ralph Cole

• 1626 	Ralph Cock

• 1627 	Henry Cock

• 1628 	Ralph Grey

• 1629 	Robert Shaftoe

• 1630 	James Carr

• 1631 	Henry Warmouth

• 1632 	Francis Bowes

• 1633 	Nicholas Cole

• 1634 	John Marley

• 1635 	Leonard Carr

• 1636 	Henry Lawson

• 1637 	Peter Maddison

• 1638 	Mark Milbank

• 1639 	John Emmerson

• 1640 	Francis Liddell

• 1641 	Sir Francis Anderson

• 1642 	Henry Maddison

• 1643 	Cuthbert Carr

• 1644 	James Cole Robert Ellison

• 1645 	Christopher Nicholson

• 1646 	Henry Rawling

• 1647 	Robert Young

• 1648 	Ralph Jennison

• 1649 	Samuel Rawlings

• 1650 	John Lodge

• 1651 	Peter Sanderson

• 1652 	John Butler

• 1653 	Robert Johnson

• 1654 	John Rumney

• 1655 	Henry Thompson

• 1656 	George Blakiston

• 1657 	George Thoresby

• 1658 	John Watson

• 1659 	James Briggs

• 1660 	William Blackett

• 1661 	Thomas Jennison

• 1662 	Henry Brabant

• 1663 	Robert Shaftoe

• 1664 	Francis Liddel

• 1665 	William Carr

• 1666 	Timothy Davison

• 1667 	Ralph Grey

• 1668 	Robert Jennison

• 1669 	John Rogers

• 1670 	Richard Wright and Robert Roddam

• 1671 	Matthew Jeffryson

• 1672 	Robert Malabar

• 1673 	George Morton

• 1674 	Henry Jennison

• 1675 	William Christian

• 1676 	Michael Blackett

• 1677 	Timothy Robson

• 1678 	Nicholas Fenwick

• 1679 	William Aubone

• 1680 	Joseph Bonner

• 1681 	John Squire

• 1682 	Nicholas Ridley

• 1683 	John Rumney

• 1684 	William Proctor

• 1685 	Ralph Elstob

• 1686 	Thomas Paise

• 1687 	William Ramsay (r) Samuel Gill

• 1688 	Matthew Partis (r) Matthew White

• 1689 	William Fetherstonhaugh

• 1690 	Thomas Wasse

• 1691 	Joseph Atkinson

• 1692 	Benjamin Davison

• 1693 	George Whinfield

• 1694 	Robert Eden

• 1695 	George Henderson

• 1696 	William Ramsay

• 1697 	George Cuthbertson

• 1698 	Edward Harrison

• 1699 	Jonathan Hargrave

• 1700 	John Bowes

• 1701 	William Boutflower

• 1702 	John Bell

• 1703 	Allan Bateman

• 1704 	Matthew Matfen (d); Jonathan Rodham

• 1705 	William Ellison

• 1706 	Matthew Fetherstonhaugh

• 1707 	Henry Reay

• 1708 	Edward Johnson

• 1709 	Henry Dalston

• 1710 	Ralph Reed

• 1711 	Francis Rudston

• 1712 	Joseph Green

• 1713 	Nicholas Fenwick

• 1714 	Roger Matfen

• 1715 	Nathaniel Clayton

• 1716 	Francis Johnson

• 1717 	John Kelly

• 1718 	Thomas Stephenson

• 1719 	Cuthbert Fenwicke

• 1720 	Jacob Rutter

• 1721 	Stephen Coulson

• 1722 	Robert Sorsbie

• 1723 	Richard Swinburn

• 1724 	James Moncaster

• 1725 	Thomas Wasse

• 1726 	Joseph Liddell

• 1727 	Robert Johnson

• 1728 	John Stephenson

• 1729 	Cuthbert Smith

• 1730 	William Harbottle

• 1731 	Chaloner Cooper

• 1732 	William Fenwick

• 1733 	John Simson

• 1734 	Robert Ellison

• 1735 	John Wilkinson

• 1736 	Matthew Bell

• 1737 	Jonathan Sorsbie

• 1738 	William Greenwell

• 1739 	Cuthbert Collingwood

• 1740 	Ralph Sowerby

• 1741 	John Ord

• 1742 	William Peareth

• 1743 	George Colpitts

• 1744 	Aubonne Surtees

• 1745 	Henry Partis

• 1746 	Henry Eden

• 1747 	William Watson

• 1748 	John Vonholte

• 1749 	Robert Heron

• 1750 	William Clayton

• 1751 	Matthew Scafe

• 1752 	Francis Rudston

• 1753 	John Harrison

• 1754 	William Rowell

• 1755 	William Harbottle

• 1756 	John Erasmus Blackett

• 1757 	John Scurfield

• 1758 	Edward Mosley

• 1759 	Matthew Stephenson

• 1760 	John Baker

• 1761 	Fletcher Partis

• 1762 	Hugh Hornby

• 1763 	Francis Forster

• 1764 	Thomas Blackett

• 1765 	Charles Atkinson

• 1766 	John Hedley

• 1767 	Richard Lacey

• 1768 	William Coulson

• 1769 	William Reed

• 1770 	James Liddell

• 1771 	Christopher Wilkinson

• 1772 	James Rudman

• 1773 	William Yielder

• 1774 	Francis Johnson

• 1775 	William Cramlington

• 1776 	James Thomas Loraine

• 1777 	Robert Clayton

• 1778 	James Wilkinson

• 1779 	Isaac Cookson

• 1780 	William Surtees

• 1781 	John Wallis (r) George Colpitts

• 1782 	Richard Bell

• 1783 	Christopher Soulsby

• 1784 	Edward Dale

• 1785 	Aubone Surtees the Younger

• 1786 	Richard Chambers

• 1787 	Joseph Forster

• 1788 	Robert Newton Lynn

• 1789 	Nathaniel Hornby

• 1790 	Charles John Clavering

• 1791 	Shaftoe John Hedley

• 1792 	Matthew Pringle

• 1793 	Henry Joseph Hounsom

• 1794 	Archibald Reed

• 1795 	Anthony Hood

• 1796 	Nicholas Hall

• 1797 	Thomas Smith

• 1798 	William Wright

• 1799 	Henry Cramlington

• 1800 	Aubone Surtees the Younger

• 1801 	Matthew Hedley (d); Isaac Cookson, younger

• 1802 	Dixon Brown

• 1803 	Thomas Cookson

• 1804 	Benjamin Sorsbie

• 1805 	Nathaniel John Winch

• 1806 	John Cookson

• 1807 	Thomas Burdon

• 1808 	Thomas Burdon (r) Benjamin Sorsbie (r) George Shadforth

• 1809 	Job James Bulman

• 1810 	William Smoult Temple

• 1811 	Thomas Burdon, jnr.

• 1812 	Thomas Anderson

• 1813 	Thomas Smith, jnr.

• 1814 	Richard Brewster

• 1815 	Ralph Naters

• 1816 Thomas Loggan

• 1817 	William Clayton

• 1818 	Henry Clayton

• 1819 	Nicholas Naters

• 1820 	John Anderson

• 1821 	Alfred Hall

• 1822 	Edward Johnson

• 1823 	Edward John Jackson

• 1824 	George Shadforth

• 1825 	John Lionel Hood

• 1826 	Alfred Hall

• 1827 	Edward Dale

• 1828 	John Brandling

• 1829 Henry Reed

• 1830 	William Smith

• 1831 	William Aubone Surtees

• 1832 	Henry Bell

• 1833 	G.C. Atkinson

• 1834 	J.M. Chapman

• 1835 	Thomas Dunn

• 1836 	Anthony Nichol

• 1837 	John Carr

• 1838 	William Brownsword Proctor

• 1839 	Robert Boyd

• 1840 	James Archbold

• 1841 	John Thomas Carr

• 1842 	Joseph Hawks

• 1843 	William Cookson

• 1844 	John Fetherstone Ayton

• 1845 	Matthew Robert Bigge

• 1846 	Joseph Crawhall

• 1847 	James Dent Weatherley

• 1848 	Nathaniel Grace Lambert

• 1849 	Ralph Dodds

• 1850 	Mark Lambert Jobling

• 1851 	Isaac Lowthian Bell

• 1852 	Henry Ingledew

• 1853 	John Gibson

• 1854 	Edward Nathaniel Grace

• 1855 	Anthony Nichol

• 1856 	Joseph Armstrong

• 1857 	John Ormston

• 1858 	George Robinson

• 1859 	William Hawthorn

• 1860 	Thomas Hedley

• 1861 	Benjamin Plummer

• 1862 	Henry Parker

• 1863 	William Hunter

• 1864 	William Lockey Harie

• 1865 	Henry Angus

• 1866 	Richard Cail

• 1867 	John Mawson (d)

• 1868 	George William Hodge

• 1869 	Thomas Leslie Gregson

• 1870 	William Daggett

• 1871 	John Brunton Falconar

• 1872 	William Stephen Daglish

• 1873 	Charles Henry Young

• 1874 	John Oliver Scott

• 1875 	Thomas Forster

• 1876 	William Stewart

• 1877 	Henry William Newton

• 1878 	John Gibson Youll

• 1879 	William Davies Stephen

• 1880 	Thomas Richardson

• 1881 	Thomas George Gibson

• 1882 	Henry Clapham (d)

• 1883 	Thomas Nelson

• 1884 	Thomas Gray

• 1885 	Thomas Bell

• 1886 	William Haswell Stephenson

• 1887 	Joseph Baxter Ellis

• 1888 	William Sutton

• 1889 	Edward Culley

• 1890 	Stephen Quin

• 1891 	Benjamin John Sutherland

• 1892 	Riley Lord

• 1893 	John Goolden

• 1894 	Thomas Barkas Sanderson

• 1895 	George Harkus

• 1896 	John Beattie

• 1897 	John Frederick Weidner

• 1898 	Andrew Peter Anderson

• 1899 	John James Forster

• 1900 	James John Gillespie

• 1901 	William John Sanderson

• 1902 	John Matthew Oubridge

• 1903 	William Cowell

• 1904 	Arthur Scott

• 1905 	Johnstone Wallace

• 1906 	John Fitzgerald

• 1907 	Walter Lee

• 1908 	Thomas William Rowe

• 1909 	William Robert Armstrong

• 1910 	Richard Henry Millican

• 1911 	Charles Thomas Stableforth

• 1912 	Gabriel Theodore de Loriol

• 1913 	Herbert Shaw

• 1914 	Robert Pettillo Dawson

• 1915 	William Bramble

• 1916 	Arthur Munro Sutherland

• 1917 	Stephen Easten

• 1918 	John Graham Cole

• 1919 	Richard Mayne

• 1920 	Anthony Oates

• 1921 	James Lunn

• 1922 	David Adams

• 1923 	Arthur William Lambert

• 1924 	John Grantham

• 1925 	Robert Jackson Thompson

• 1926 	Robert Stanley Dalgleish

• 1927 	Joseph Stephenson

• 1928 	William Adams Allan

• 1929 	John George Nixon jnr.

• 1930 	Joseph William Leech

• 1931 	John Leadbitter

• 1932 	John William Telford

• 1933 	William Locke

• 1934 Gilbert Oliver

• 1935 	William Robert Wallace

• 1936 	William Taylor (d) Adamson Dawson Russell

• 1937 	John Edward Scanlan

• 1938 	George Dixon

• 1939 	Richard Jordon Richardson (d) Walter Thompson

• 1940 	Thomas Clements

• 1941 	Richard Embleton

• 1942 	James Alexander Clydesdale

• 1944 	Ernest George King

• 1945 	James Pearson

• 1946 	Thomas McCutcheon

• 1947 	Thomas Tully

• 1948 	Thomas Tully

• 1949 	Norman Hackworth Chapman

• 1950 	Violet Hardisty Grantham

• 1951 	Robert Mould-Graham

• 1952 	William Temple

• 1953 	Arthur Howell

• 1954 Henry Waller

• 1955 	Dorothy Ann Fitzpatrick

• 1956 	John William Telford

• 1957 	Ethel Beatrice Temple

• 1958 	Robert Skinner Gray

• 1959 	Gladys Robson

• 1960 	George Jacobson

• 1961 	Henry Simm

• 1962 	Catherine Campbell Scott

• 1963 	Jonathan Farries Burton

• 1964 	Henry Russell

• 1965 	Joseph Christopher Dixon McKenzie

• 1966 	Mary Shaw

• 1967 	Peter Henry Renwick (d) Isabella McCambridge (d) Robert Skinner Gray

• 1968 	Horace John Milton Leigh Criddle

• 1969 	Amelia Louisa Storey

• 1970 	Watson Oliver

• 1971 	Joseph William Norman Petty

• 1972 	Thomas Allen Waters

• 1973 	Cyril Lipman

Sheriffs 1996-present
• 1996 	Mary Isabel Nixon

• 1997 	David Serge Slesenger

• 1998 	John Cunningham

• 1999 	Peter John Stuart Thomson

• 2000 	Mary Jane Carr

• 2001 	John Marshall

• 2002 	Margaret Richardson Carter

• 2003 	Geoge William Douglas

• 2004 	David Serge Slesenger

• 2005 	Diane Margaret Packham

• 2006 	Peter John Arnold

• 2007 	David Leslie Wood

• 2008 	Michael Cookson

• 2009 	Brenda Hindmarsh

• 2010 	Geoff O'Brien

• 2011 	Jackie Slesenger

• 2012 	Margaret Wood

• 2013 	George Pattison

• 2014 	Ian Graham

• 2015 	Hazel Stephenson

• 2016 	Linda Wright

• 2017 	David Down

• 2018 	David Cook

• 2019 & 2020 	Habib Rahman

• 2021 	Anita Lower (d) Karen Robinson

• 2022 Veronica Dunn

• 2023 Maureen Lowson