Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne


The office of Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne existed from 1400 until local government reorganisation in 1974, and was reintroduced in 1996 as a title held by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne. The city has a sheriff because it is a county corporate.
In 1950 Violet Grantham became the first woman to hold the office, and in 2019 Councillor Habib Rahman became the first BAME person to hold the office.
William Haswell Stephenson, who held the office in 1886, commissioned a bronze statue of Queen Victoria by Alfred Gilbert to celebrate 500 years of the shrievalty; it stands in the city centre and is Grade II* listed.