The office of High Sheriff is the oldest secular appointment in the country.  Cornish records below date back to 1901:

2023 – Mr Toby Ashworth

2022 – Mr Andrew Williams

2021 – Mr David Mark Thomas

2020 – Mrs Katharine Mary Holborow DL

2019 – Mr John Willis

2018 – Mr Paul Young-Jamieson

2017 – Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Coryton

2016 – Mrs Jane Margaret Hartley

2015 – Mr Anthony Desmond Grenville Fortescue

2014 – Mr Charles Henry Williams

2013 – James Buller Kitson

2012 – Mrs Catherine Frances Mead DL

2011 – Col Edward Thomas Bolitho OBE, DL

2010 – James Piran Williams DL

2009 – Capt Iain Anthony Mackie

2008 – Sir Ralph Ferrers Alexander Vyvyan Bt

2007 – The Hon Evelyn Arthur Hugh Boscawen DL

2006 – Mrs Louella Gage Hanbury-Tenison

2005 – Peter John Dixon Hodgson CBE. DL,

2004 – James Piers Southwell St. Aubyn

2003 – Christopher Leslie Perkins

2002 – Mrs Judith Ann Coode

2001 – James Michael Williams DL,

2000 – Lady (Frances) Banham

1999 – Lt. Cmdr. Nicholas John Trefusis DL,

1999 – Lt. Cmdr. Nicholas John Trefusis DL,

1998 – Piers Reginald Thompson

1997 – Major Charles Thurstan Edward-Collins

1996 – Mrs. Jill Trench Morison DL,

1995 – Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Bolitho DL

1994 – Arthur Michael Johnstone Galsworthy CVO. CBE.DL

1993 – Richard John Gilbert Esq.

1992 – Michael Locks Latham Esq.

1991 – David Charles Treffry OBE

1990 – John Michael Williams Esq.

1989 – George Edward Michael Trinick OBE, DL

1988 – Diana Evelyn Colville

1987 – Alice Mary Viscountess Boyd of Merton JP.DL

1986 – Major Nathaniel Duncan Spry-Grant-Dalton DL

1985 – Major Gen. Edward Michael Hall CB, MBE, DL

1984 – Robert David Lyle

1983 – Elizabeth Alison Johnstone

1982 – Simon Douglas Young-Jamieson

1981 – Major Edward Walter Moyle Magor CMG, OBE

1980 – Gerald Strachan Pawle

1979 – Sir Richard Carew-Pole Bt. DL.

1978 – Christopher Petherick

1977 – Geoffrey Jermyn Holborow OBE.

1976 – Lieutenant Commander Jeremy David Tetley

1975 – Lt. Col. J A Molesworth St Aubyn

1974 – Lord St. Levan DSC, DL

1973 – Philip Hamilton Fox DL

1972 – Major Jeffery Coryton

1971 – Brig. Charles Thurstan Edward-Collins DL

1970 – Charles Le Grice

1969 – Bernard Penrose

1968 – Francis Julian Williams CBE,JP. DL, 

1967 – Henry Trefusis

1966 – John Desmond Grenville Fortescue DL,

1965 – Henry Richard Graham-Vivian

1964 – Lt. Cmdr. D Verney

1963 – Cmdr. R M Favel R.N, DSC

1962 – Col. W G Petherick

1961 – George Romney Fox

1960 – Nicholas Kendall

1959 – M.G Bickford-Smith

1958 – Major Gen. Eric William Warde Harrison CB, CBE, MC,

1957 – Maurice Petherick, MA

1956 – Major Simon Edward Bolitho MC

1955 – Major. Gen. Charles Edward-Collins  CB, CIE

1954 – Air Marshall Sir John Tremayne Tremayne KCB, CBE, DSO

1953 – Col. George Thomson, DSO, MC of Catchfrench

1952 – Peter Michael William

1951 – Lt. Col. Giffard Loftus Tyringham

1950 – Adml. Sir Henry Bernard Hughes Rawlings GBE, KCB

1949 – Brigadier Stephen Williams DSO, MC

1948 – Sir John Molesworth St Aubyn Bt

1947 – Sir John Gawen Carew-Pole  Bt, DSO

1946 – Cuthbert Lloyd Fox

1945 – Kenneth James Acton Davis

1944 – Michael Percival Williams

1943 – George Grenville Fortescue   

1942 – Lt. Col. Arthur Treve Holman

1941 – William Reginald Rendell

1940 – Capt. Norman Robert Colville  MC

1939 – Major Sir Charles Bourne Hanson, Bt

1938 – Cmdr. Alfred Martyn Williams DSC

1937 – Charles Henry Legrice of Trereife

1936 – Capt. Charles Henry Tremaybe

1935 – John Lionel Rogers

1934 – Lt. Col. Edward Neynoe Willyans DSO

1933 – Richard Vernon Favell

1932 – Capt. John Tillie Coryton

1931 – Lt. Col. Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho

1930 – Robert Alexander Harvey

1929 – Lt. Col. Camborne Haweis Paynter

1928 – Col. Edward Treffry, CMG  OBE

1927 – John Williams of Scorrier House

1926 – George Horace Johnstone

1925 – Alnod John Boger of Wolsdon

1924 – Cornelius Cecil Morley of Trelawne

1923 – Lt. Col. The Hon. Henry Walter Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes Trefusis

1922 – Sir Hugh Molesworth St Aubyn, Bt of Pencarrow

1921 – John De Cressy Treffry

1920 – Robert Barclay Fox

1919 – Edward Charles Percival Sanford

1918 – Edward Galton Baron Lethbridge of Tregeare

1917 – George Tallack Petherick of Porthpean House

1916 – Col. Charles Robert. Prideaux-Brune of Prideaux Place

1915 – Charles Hawkins Hext

1914 – Roger William Giffard Tyringham of Trevethoe

1913 – Rear Adml. Sir Charles John Graves-Sawle, Bt,  MVO

1912 – Sir Edward Hain of Treloyhan

1911 – Henry Harcourt Williams

1910 – Francis Buller Howell

1909 – Carew Davies Gilbert

1908 – John Cosmo Stuart Rashleigh

1907 – Charles Augustin Hanson

1906 – Sir Walter John Trevelyan, Bt.

1905 – Richard Carlyon Coode

1904 – John Simons Tregoning

1903 – Percival Dacres Williams of Lanarth

1902 – William Coryton

1901 – Arthur Francis Bassett of Tehidy