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The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. The High Sheriff changes every April.

The post of High Sheriff of Cumberland existed from the creation of the county in the twelfth century up until 1974 when the administrative and ceremonial or geographic county of Cumberland became part of Cumbria.

High Sheriffs of Cumberland have included:

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• 1189-1199 Hugh Bardulf ^[1]
• 1198 Robert de Tateshall

• 1265: Roger de Leybourne
• 1268-70: Sir Ranulph de Dacre
• 1285–98: Sir Michael Harclay

• 1323–25: Sir Henry de Malton

• 1440: Sir Hugh Lowther of Lowther^[2]
• 1456: Sir Hugh Lowther of Lowther^[2]

• 1516: Sir John Lowther of Lowther^[2]
• 1543: Sir John Lowther of Lowther^[2]
• 1551: Sir John Lowther of Lowther^[2]
• 1567: Sir Richard Lowther of Lowther^[2]
• 1589: Sir Richard Lowther of Lowther^[2]

• 1612: Sir John Dalston of Dalston Hall^[3]
• 1618: Sir George Dalston of Dalston Hall^[3]
• 1641: Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet of Whitehaven
• 1661: John Dalston (later Sir John Dalston Bt.)^[3]

• 1810: Sir Henry Fletcher, 2nd Baronet
• 1821: John Marshall^[4]
• 1828: William Blamire
• 1830: Christopher Parker, of Petterill Green^[5]
• 1831: John Taylor, of Dockray Hall^[6]
• 1832: Henry Howard, of Corby Castle^[7]
• 1833: Henry Curwen, of Workington Hall^[8]
• 1834: Henry Howard, of Greystoke Castle^[9]
• 1835: Richard Ferguson, of Harker Lodge^[10]
• 1836: Thomas Irwin, of Calder Abbey^[11]
• 1837: Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 3rd Baronet, of Armathwaite^[12]
• 1838: John Dixon, of Knells^[13]
• 1839: Thomas Hartley, of Gillfoot^[14]
• 1840: Sir George Musgrave, 10th Baronet, of Eden Hall^[15]
• 1841: James Robertson Walker, of Gillgarron^[16]
• 1842: Fretchville Lawson Ballantine-Dykes, of Dovenby Hall^[17]
• 1843: Robert Hodgson, of Salkeld Hall^[18]
• 1844: George Harrison, of Linethwaite^[19][20]
• 1845: Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, of the College, Kirkoswald^[21]
• 1846: Joseph Pocklington Senhouse, of Barrow House and Netherhall^[22]
• 1847: Gilfrid William Hartley, of Rose Hill^[23]
• 1848: Henry Dundas Maclean, of Lazonby^[24]
• 1849: Andrew Fleming Huddleston, of Hutton John^[25]
• 1850: Thomas Salkeld, of Holm Hill^[26]
• 1851: George Head Head, of Rickerby House^[27]
• 1852: George Henry Oliphant, of Broadfield House^[28]
• 1853: Francis Baring Atkinson, of Rampsbeck Lodge^[29]
• 1854: Thomas Alison Hoskins, of Higham^[30]
• 1855: Thomas Story Spedding, of Mirehouse^[31]
• 1856: Sir Henry Ralph Fletcher-Vane, 4th Baronet, of Hutton in the Forest and Armathwaite^[32]
• 1857: Charles Fetherstonhaugh, of Staffield Hall^[33]
• 1858: Anthony Benn Steward, of Chapel House^[34]
• 1859: Gamel Pennington, 4th Baron Muncaster, of Muncaster Castle^[35]
• 1860: Philip Henry Howard, of Corby Castle^[36]
• 1861: Thomas Ainsworth, of The Flosh^[37]
• 1862: Samuel Lindow, of Cleator^[38]
• 1863: William Nicholson Hodgson, of Newby Grange, Carlisle^[39]
• 1864: Thomas Brocklebank, of Greenlands^[40]
• 1865: William Postlethwaite, of the Oaks^[41]
• 1890: Henry Jefferson, of Springfield^[42]
• 1891: John Stirling Ainsworth, of Harecroft^[43]
• 1892: Humphrey Pocklington Senhouse, of Nether Hall^[44]
• 1893: George William Mounsey-Heysham, of Castletown, Carlisle^[45]
• 1894: Sir Richard James Graham, 4th Baronet, of Netherby, Longtown^[46]
• 1895: Joseph Harris, of Calthwaite Hall, Carlisle^[47]
• 1896: Louis Carruthers Salkeld, of Holme Hill, Carlisle^[48]
• 1897: Col. Thomas Angelo Irwin, of Lynehow, Carlisle^[49]
• 1898: George Graham Kirklinton, of Kirklinton Hall, Carlisle^[50]
• 1899: Wiliam Parkin-Moore, of Whitehall^[51]

• 1900: Charles Lacy Thompson, of Farlam Hall, Brampton ^[52]
• 1901: Hamlet Riley, of Ennim, Penrith ^[53]
• 1902: Captain William Pery Standish, of Marwell Hall, Winchester, and Breconhill Tower, Longtown, Carlisle ^[54]
• 1903: Thomas Dixon, of Rheda, near Whitehaven ^[55]
• 1904: Richard Heywood-Thompson, of Nunwick Hall, near Penrith ^[56]
• 1905:
• 1964: James Westoll, of Dykeside, Longtown, Carlisle^[57]