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In the 19th century, the administrative functions of courts were mostly replaced by the creation of elected local authorities (councils). Nevertheless, the term bailiff is retained as a title by the chief officers of various towns and the keepers of royal castles, such as the High Bailiff of Westminster and the Bailiff of Dover Castle. [2]
List of bailiffs of Guernsey. 3 languages. ... 19th century. Peter de Havilland (1810–1821) Daniel de Lisle Brock (1821–1843) John Guille (1843–1845)
This is a list of territorial governors in the 19th century (1801–1900), ... Bailiffs; Robert Porrett Le Marchant, Bailiff (1800–1810) Peter De Havilland, ...
(former Bailiff) Richard Collas (right) attending the Queen's birthday parade 2016 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey in his formal robes. From the start of the 19th century a Bailiff has always been a Guernsey qualified lawyer, which means qualifying in both English law and then obtaining a Certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Françaises et Normandes from Caen University [7] before being invited to the ...
The death of the Bailiff, Sir Thomas Le Breton, created a vacancy among the Crown Officers and on 6 March 1858 Robert Pipon Marett was appointed Solicitor-General. He rose through the legal hierarchy, becoming Attorney-General in 1866, and Bailiff in 1880.
Between Anglo-Saxon times and the nineteenth century Bedfordshire was divided for administrative purposes into 9 hundreds, plus the borough of Bedford.Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.
The Brocks were an English family who had been established in Guernsey since the sixteenth century. Daniel was a nephew of William Brock (1725–1768), of Brockhurst, St Peter Port (now owned by the National Trust of Guernsey ), who was married to Judith de Beauvoir; and Henry Brock, who was married to Susan, sister of Admiral James Saumarez ...
The title Bailiff of Ipswich was used from 1200 to 1834 for the most senior officers of Ipswich Corporation, the municipal corporation that owned property in and was responsible for the government of Ipswich. Although over 40 English towns had been granted corporate status by 1200, with the granting of the charter, Ipswich became one of the ...