High Sheriff of Wexford

The High Sheriff of Wexford was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Wexford, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Irish Free State and replaced by the office of Wexford County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However, the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. All addresses are in County Wexford unless stated otherwise.

High Sheriffs of County Wexford

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  • Sir Richard Synnott of Ballybrennan[1]
  • 1355 Nicholas Brown (also Escheator of County Wexford)
  • 1414 John Roche[2]
  • 1423: Robert Bosschier[3]
  • 1543: Patrick de Lonport[4]
  • 1548: Oliver Sutton[1]
  • 1570: Sir Thomas Masterson
  • 1591: Walter Synnott[1]
  • 1595 : Lodowick Bryskett
  • 1596: Leonard Colclough
  • 1620: Nicholas Loftus[1]
  • 1627: Patrick Esmonde[1]
  • 1630: Sir Adam Colclough, 1st Baronet, of Tintern Abbey[5]
  • 1649: Walter Talbot of Ballynamony[6]
  • 1652: Thomas Sadleir of Sopwell Hall[5]
  • 1656: Thomas Dancer
  • 1666: Christian Bor[1]
  • 1666: Francis Harvey[5]
  • 1667:
  • 1675: Richard Nunn of St Margaret's[7]
  • 1677: Nathaniel Boyse of Bannow[5]
  • 1678: Matthew Forde
  • 1680: John Cliffe [8]
  • 1683: Patrick Lambert of Carnagh[5]
  • 1686: Robert Carew
  • 1688: Patrick Colclough of Mohurry or Duffry Hall[5]
  • 1689:
  • 1692: Thomas Sadleir of Sopwell Hall[5]
  • 1694: John Harvey of Killiane Castle[5]
  • 1695: Thomas Sadleir of Sopwell Hall[5]
  • 1696: Edward Kenney of Newfort House[5]
  • 1697:

18th century

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  • 1700: Thomas Palliser of Portobello[5]
  • 1701: John Chichester
  • 1702:
  • 1707: Richard Saunders of Saunders Court[5]
  • 1708: Abel Ram of Ramsfort and Clonattin[5]
  • 1709: Joshua Nunn of St Margaret's[7](son of Richard, HS 1675)
  • 1712: Richard le Hunte of Llanrian, Pembrokeshire[5]
  • 1714: __? Edwards
  • 1715: Francis Toplady[5]
  • 1716: Jeremy Sims
  • 1720: Jacob Boyse[5]
  • 1721:
  • 1724: Richard Donovan of Ballymore[5]
  • 1727: Abraham Thomas Hughes of Ballytrent[5]
  • 1728: John Richards of Solsborough[5]
  • 1729: Thomas Palliser of Portobello[5]
  • 1730: Loftus Hatton of Clonard[5]
  • 1731: John Nunn of St Margaret's[7](son of Joshua, HS 1709)
  • 1732:
  • 1737: George Ogle[1]
  • 1737: Charles Tottenham of Tottenham Green[5]
  • 1738: Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran of the Arran Islands
  • 1739: John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough
  • 1740: William Alcock
  • 1741: Robert Doyne of Wells[5]
  • 1742:
  • 1744: Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely
  • 1746: John Grogan of Johnstown
  • 1747: Alan Cox of New Ross[5]
  • 1749: John Tottenham, later Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet of Tottenham Green[9]
  • 1750:
  • 1753: Solomon Richards of Solsborough[5]
  • 1754: Joshua Nunn of St Margaret's (son of John, HS 1731)[4]
  • 1755: Richard Boyse of Bannow[5]
  • 1756: James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown
  • 1757: Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran of the Arran Islands
  • 1758: John Hatton of Clonard[5]
  • 1759:
  • 1763: Edward Cookman
  • 1764: John Devereux of Kilrush and then Newton Barry[10]
  • 1767: Vesey Colclough of Tintern Abbey[5]
  • 1768: George Reade
  • 1769: Adam Colclough of Duffry Hall[5]
  • 1771: William Piggott of Slevoy Castle[11]
  • 1774: Sir John Freke, 1st Baronet of Castle Freke[12]
  • 1775: John Harvey of Killiane Castle[5]
  • 1777: Robert Doyne of Wells[5]
  • 1778: John Drake of Stokestown[5]
  • 1779: Cornelius Grogan[13]
  • 1782: Henry Brownrigg, of Wingfield [14]
  • 1783: Samuel Tench of Ballyhely[15]
  • 1784: Sir Edward Loftus, 1st Baronet of Mount Loftus, Co. Kilkenny[5]
  • 1785: John Heatly, of Rockview[16]
  • 1788: William Hore
  • 1789: William Bolton of the Island[17]
  • 1793: Walter Hore of Harperstown
  • 1794: William Pemberton Pigott of Slevoy Castle[11]
  • 1795:
  • 1798: Edward Perceval of Barntown[5]
  • 1798: Christian Wilson of Scar

19th century

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20th century

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References

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