This is a list of Sheriffs of Cheshire.
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant for Clwyd. The office was created on 1 April 1974.
Lower Peover is a village in the civil parish of Nether Peover in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, approximately 6 miles east of Northwich and 4 miles south of Knutsford. The boundary of the civil parish deviates slightly to include Lower Peover in Nether Peover and not the adjacent civil parish of Peover Inferior. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 415.
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1796.
St Oswald's Church is in the village of Lower Peover, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Knutsford. Its benefice is combined with that of St Lawrence, Over Peover.
St Lawrence's Church, Over Peover is in the civil parish of Peover Superior. Close to Peover Hall and farm. It lies some 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Knutsford. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The church is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Knutsford. Its benefice is combined with that of St Oswald, Lower or Nether Peover. It is noted for its old chapels and for the monuments to the Mainwaring family.
Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet was an English antiquarian and historian. He was involved in the English Civil War on the royalist side and was subsequently made a baronet. He later compiled one of the earliest histories of the county of Cheshire and as a result of this became involved in a controversy with the Mainwaring family. He developed a library in his home at Tabley Old Hall and made improvements to the house and estate, including building a private chapel in the grounds of the house. He was an active and conscientious justice of the peace and used his position on the Bench to expound his staunchly conservative and Royalist political views.
Peover Superior is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Peover Superior and Snelson, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is described by the Office for National Statistics as a village surrounded by inhabited countryside. The civil parish included the village of Over Peover and the hamlet of Peover Heath. In 2011 the parish had a population of 666.
Whitmore Hall is the home of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family at Whitmore, Staffordshire. A Grade I listed building, the hall was designated a house of outstanding architectural and historical interest and is a fine example of a small Carolean style manor house.
Peover Hall Stable Block is in the grounds of Peover Hall, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
Peover Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Peover Superior, commonly known as Over Peover, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Sir Robert Brerewood was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
Sir Philip Mainwaring was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1661.
Sir Thomas Mainwaring, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
Sir John Mainwaring, 2nd Baronet DL was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1689 to 1702.
Sir Thomas Smith was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1644.
Commander Sir Henry Stapleton Mainwaring, 5th Baronet JP was an English soldier and actor.
The Mainwaring baronetcy of Over-Peover, Cheshire, was created on 22 November 1660 by Charles II on his restoration, for Thomas Mainwaring, High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1657 and Knight of the Shire otherwise Member of Parliament for Cheshire in 1660. The baronetcy was extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet.
The Mainwaring baronetcy of Over-Peover was created for the second time, on 26 May 1804 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for Henry Mainwaring, son of Thomas Weterall Mainwaring.