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The office of Sheriff of Sussex was established before the Norman Conquest.The Office of sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord-Lieutenant the prime office under the Crown as the Sovereign's personal representative.
The complex was expanded when council offices, designed in the arts and crafts style by Rowland Hawke Halls, were erected to the north of the assembly hall in 1913, facing Fisher Street; [2] it incorporated plaster relief panels sculpted by local artist George Banksart with scenes of rural life. [9] 26 December 1915. A Soldiers Dinner in Lewes ...
Coombe Place Offham, Hamsey, Lewes: Farmhouse: 1657: 17 March 1952: 1221911: Upload Photo: Hamsey House Cottage Yeomans Hamsey, Lewes: House: 19th century: 20 August ...
Malling House is a 17th-century country house in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It is a Grade I listed building and serves as the headquarters of Sussex Police. [1]The house was built in red and grey brick in the mid–17th century for the Spence family, extended in the late 17th century, refronted circa 1720–1726 and extended again in the 20th century.
St Andrew's Church, the parish church of Bishopstone, is one of many Grade I-listed Anglican churches in the district of Lewes. The linear chancel – nave –tower form is found frequently in Sussex. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) There are 70 extant churches and places of worship ...
Sir Rowland Sydney Wright CBE (4 October 1915 [1] – 14 June 1991) was a British industrialist who served as Chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast between 1984–91. [ 2 ] He was born in Northampton . [ 3 ]
The Lewes Coast Guard Station now functions as the Delaware River pilot's station. The station is a 2.5-story balloon-framed building, built in 1938 in Colonial Revival style. The principal facade faces the harbor with an enclosed porch supported by paired Tuscan columns. Shingle siding covers the station.
Joshua Fisher (1707 – February 1, 1783) was a prominent Philadelphia merchant involved in transatlantic trade and mapmaking as applied to nautical charts.He made the first nautical chart of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay, and established the first merchant packet line between London and Philadelphia.