High Sheriff of Derbyshire
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This is a list of Sheriffs of Derbyshire from 1567 until 1974 and High Sheriffs since.
Oliver Stephenson, High Sheriff of Derbyshire, at the Derby Book Festival in 2015
Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Gell was an English military officer who acted as local Parliamentarian commander for most of the First English Civil War from 1643 to his resignation in 1646. He was notorious for parading t
Sir John Gell
St Mary's Church, Wirksworth, where Gell was buried in 1671