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Winter 2017 Antonia Pugh-Thomas Drumming up something new WINTER 2017 ANTONIA PUGH-THOMAS Haute Couture Shrieval Outfits for Lady High Sheriffs 0207731 7582 659 Fulham Road London, SW6 5PY www.antoniapugh-thomas.co.uk Volume 36 Issue 2 Winter 2017 The High Sheriffs’ Association of England and Wales President J R Avery Esq DL 14 20 Officers and Council November 2016 to November 2017 OFFICERS Chairman The Hon HJH Tollemache 30 38 Email [email protected] Honorary Secretary J H A Williams Esq Gatefield, Green Tye, Much Hadham Hertfordshire SG10 6JJ Tel 01279 842225 Email [email protected] Honorary Treasurer N R Savory Esq DL Thorpland Hall, Fakenham Norfolk NR21 0HD Tel 01328 862392 Email [email protected] COUNCIL Col M G C Amlôt OBE DL Canon S E A Bowie DL Mrs E J Hunter D C F Jones Esq DL JAT Lee Esq OBE Mrs VA Lloyd DL Lt Col AS Tuggey CBE DL W A A Wells Esq TD (Hon Editor of The High Sheriff ) Mrs J D J Westoll MBE DL Mrs B Wilding CBE QPM DL The High Sheriff is published twice a year by Hall-McCartney Ltd for the High Sheriffs’ Association of England and Wales Hon Editor Andrew Wells Email [email protected] ISSN 1477-8548 4 From the Editor 13 Recent Events – 20 General Election © 2017 The High Sheriffs’ Association of England and Wales From the new Chairman The City and the Law The Association is not as a body responsible for the opinions expressed 22 News – from in The High Sheriff unless it is stated Chairman’s and about members that an article or a letter officially 6 14 Recent represents the Council’s views. address to the AGM Events – Burghley The Editor welcomes articles and 1 November 2017 news stories from High Sheriffs High Sheriffs concerning their year in office. of46 England and Wales The next edition of The High Sheriff Annual General 17 Recent Events – 2017-18; new members; will be published in June 2018. Closing 8 deaths; nominations date for receipt of editorial items will be Meeting of the High Lady High Sheriffs Friday 20 April 2018. Sheriffs’ Association of Items for inclusion should be sent to: England and Wales Association The High Sheriff National Crimebeat 48 Heritage House, PO Box 21, 18 regalia and publications Baldock, Herts SG7 5SH Email [email protected] Recent Events Advertisement enquiries 10 Non-member enquiries – Nomination Ceremony 19 The Hardman Trust 50 Helpful Topics Address as above Tel 01462 896688 Fax 01462 896677 Email [email protected] Printed by Blackmore Ltd. www.highsheriffs.com Design atg Media www.atg-media.com for answers to your questions Winter 2017 | High Sheriff 3 Welcome Hardman Trust for an article by the recipient of one of its awards to prisoners on release, hoping that future High Sheriffs will associate themselves with the Trust. This issue also covers High Sheriffs who declared general election results in June, fulfilling their statutory duty as returning officers for the second time in two years. The earliest declaration was at 2.00 am and the last (of three results declared) was at 5.30 am. Members kindly inform us of the deaths of past High THE AGM this year marked Sheriffs, whether or not still members of the Association. important changes at the top The brief notices published in the magazine are often the with Jeremy Burton handing over only national recognition of a High Sheriff’s service. The the chair to Hugh Tollemache. Association’s records are based only on information received Jeremy has guided the Association and it might be worth all counties maintaining a record of and meetings of Council with office holders in the last 50 years. great charm and clarity for five Members suggest from time to time that the Association years. Under his leadership we should publish the magazine solely online but most tell us have seen shrieval nomination that they like to receive printed copies. Council will continue panels become established as a to ensure that members have the best of both worlds, printing force for good in all counties, ever closer ties with the Privy and, as has happened for the past three years, placing recent Council Office on important briefings of High Sheriffs in issues on the website from which they can be downloaded. nomination, and a growth in AGM attendance – all in all I, Jayne Lewis our Production Editor and Kelly Sadler keeping ‘the shrieval community together and particularly the Membership Administrator wish all members a Happy former High Sheriffs in touch and involved’ (Jeremy’s Christmas and serving and future High Sheriffs in particular a words, AGM 2015). Hugh brings to the chairmanship fulfilling New Year. a wealth of leadership experience and initiatives. He has overseen the considerable expansion of website information of great interest and use to members. (Do look at page 50 for some of the topics covered on the website which we hope readers will find helpful.) We welcome him. Council is grateful to the High Sheriffs who have written vivid accounts of their wide-ranging activities and to the Andrew Wells, Hon Editor, Kent 2005-06 It was good to see a record attendance at the AGM at Fishmongers’ Hall this year, with a welcome number of past High Sheriffs continuing to take an interest in the Shrievalty. We were honoured to have Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, immediate past President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, as our guest speaker. Only a few days later at the Royal Courts of Justice, the IT was with some trepidation that new Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, together I agreed to take over from the very with the President and two Justices of the Queen’s Bench experienced and capable Jeremy Division, presided at the nomination of new candidates Burton who has been on the for the Office of High Sheriff, declared by the Queen’s Council of the Association for eight Remembrancer. If those in nomination needed any further years and Chairman for the last five proof that their service is highly valued, this was indeed very years. At the AGM our President, evident proof. Julian Avery, was rightly fulsome It may be a cliché but as I said at the AGM, it is a great in his praise for what Jeremy has honour and a privilege to serve the Shrievalty as Chairman of achieved during his term. the Association. High Sheriffs have the opportunity to do a The Association has, to my mind, one over-riding aim: to wealth of good within their counties and I am delighted to be help High Sheriffs and those in nomination to ‘hit the ground a part of this. running’ and avoid some of the pitfalls that the unwary may encounter during their tenure, so that they can make full use of their time in this high public office. Jeremy strongly Hugh Tollemache encouraged this and I intend to do the same. Chairman; Gloucestershire 2013-14 4 High Sheriff | Winter 2017 Events Listings Diary 2018 of Forthcoming Events MARCH 2018 at Burghley House, Stamford, The Nomination of future High Sheriffs in Lincolnshire, on Friday 6 July High Sheriffs nomination for 2018 2018. Details of the programme Monday 12 November Wednesday 14 March and speakers together with an probably at 2.00 pm The names of the High Sheriffs on application form will be sent in mid- The Ceremony of the Nomination of the Roll for 2018 will be ‘pricked’ by May 2018 to all High Sheriffs in High Sheriffs will take place on Monday Her Majesty The Queen at a private nomination for 2019 and 2020. 12 November 2018 in Court 4 (the meeting of the Privy Council to be Lord Chief Justice’s Court) at the Royal held at Buckingham Palace. OCTOBER 2018 Courts of Justice, Strand, London The Red Mass WC2A 2LL. At this ceremony the names APRIL 2018 Monday 1 October of those nominated for the Office of National Crimebeat The annual Roman Catholic Mass will High Sheriff for the years 2019, 2020 Wednesday 18 April be held at 9.30 am at Westminster and 2021 will be read out in court. A The Awards Ceremony, which will be Cathedral to celebrate the start of tea party will take place afterward at a a celebration of 20 years of National the legal year. Those High Sheriffs nearby venue. Crimebeat, will take place at the Royal and High Sheriffs in Nomination The Secretary will be writing in National Hotel, London. All projects to who wish to process will be invited September to all High Sheriffs in be entered must be endorsed by the to coffee beforehand from 8.30am. nomination for 2019 and for 2020 High Sheriff and submitted by 5pm on There will be a ticket-only reception in inviting them to attend. This event the 17 January 2018. Judging will take the Throne Room after the Mass. To provides a good opportunity for those in place on 31 January 2018 and results obtain tickets, contact Stephen Hart nomination to meet each other. It may notified in the following days. by email at: [email protected]. be possible for a few 2021 nominees to attend as well but space in court is Meeting of the The Ladies’ Lunch limited. The Association will not know co-ordinators of the Early October the names of the 2021 nominees so regional meetings The annual Ladies’ Lunch will be held it will be up to such nominees or their April in London. When arranged, full details proposers to contact the Secretary Meeting of co-ordinators of the will be sent in May/June 2018 to should they wish to attend.
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