Gerald Colville Seymour Curtis, OBE was High Sheriff of Essex [1] from 1973 to 1974. [2]
The son of Sir George Curtis, KCSI [3] he was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service. [4] In 1935 he married Decima Pryor [5] at Bishops Stortford. [6]
Sir William Parr, KG (1434–1483) was an English courtier and soldier. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Parr (1405–1461) and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland, Lancashire.
Sir Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett was an English Conservative Party politician, international yachtsman, psychiatrist and painter.
The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, the title of Sheriff of Essex was retitled High Sheriff of Essex. The high shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, historically in the shires.
The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire was an ancient Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, the title of Sheriff of Hertfordshire was retitled High Sheriff of Hertfordshire. The High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, historically in the shires.
Admiral Sir George Digby Morant was an Anglo-Irish admiral in the British Royal Navy.
Angus Valdemar Hambro was a British Conservative Party politician.
Sir Robert Benson Ewbank, CSI, CIE was an eminent British colonial civil servant in the twentieth century.
Colonel Vernon Stewart Laurie was an English stockbroker who also served as a territorial army officer in both World Wars. He was also Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 1946 and High Sheriff of Essex in 1950.
Sir Edward Hussey Packe KBE DL JP was a British civil servant.
George Herbert Ward (1862–1946) was Archdeacon of Wisbech from 1924 to 1945.
Babington is the name of an Anglo-Irish and English gentry family. The Anglo-Irish branch of the family is still extant today.
The Ven. Horace John Carpenter was Archdeacon of Salop from 1945 to 1959.
Sir William George MacKenzie Sutherland is a retired British police officer.
Joshua Francis Rowley, M.A., JP, DCL, was a soldier and landowner, and Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 1978 to 1994.
Sir Charles Albert Batho, 1st Baronet, Kt was Lord Mayor of London from 1927 to 1928.
Sir Howell Jones Williams DL JP, was a Welsh Progressive politician and a prominent London builder. He represented Islington South on the London County Council from 1898 to 1925.
Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, 4th Baronet(5 Oct. 1843; died 8 May 1919) was High Sheriff of County Londonderry in 1903.
Sir James Frederick Rees, known as Frederick Rees, was a Welsh historian and academic born in Milford Haven, who specialised in economic history and the history of Wales. From 1929 to 1949, he was Principal of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. He was additionally Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales from 1935 to 1937 and also from 1944 to 1946. He had previously lectured at University College, Bangor, Queen's University Belfast, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Birmingham. He served as High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire for 1955.
Thomas Rawlinson Sale was Archdeacon of Rochdale from 1919 to 1935.
Harold Bryant Salmon (1891-1965) was a British Church of England priest, most notably Archdeacon of Wells from 1951 to 1962.