The Sheriff of Inverness was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in Inverness, Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the hereditary sheriffs were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
Following mergers the office became the Sheriff of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn in 1882 and the Sheriff of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty in 1946.[1] That sheriffdom was dissolved in turn in 1975 and replaced by that of the Sheriff Principal of Grampian, Highland and Islands.
Sheriffs of Inverness edit
- William de Moravia (1204)
- William Pratt (1227)
- Michael Mowat (1234)
- Lawrence Grant (1263)
- Alexander Murray (1266)
- William de Soulis (1291)
- Alan Durward (1291)
- Reginald le Chen (1292)
- William de la Hay (1295)
- John Stirling of Moray (1305-?)
- Alexander Pilche (1307-1328)
- Maurice Grant (1340)
- Robert de Chisholm (1359)
- John of Ross (1360)
- John Hay of Tullybothill (1364)
- Galfrid de Munbeyn (1370)
- Alan de Winton (1370)
- William Lambe (1376)
- Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan (1380-1390)
- William Fotheringay - 1383 - Acting
- Thomas Dunbar, 5th Earl of Moray (1390-?)
- William Fotheringay - 1398 - Deputy
- Hugh Fraser (1430)
- William Leslie (1440)
- John Grant - 1442 - Deputy
- John Macdonald, Earl of Ross and Lord of the Isles (1455-1460)
- Celestine of the Isles - 1460 - Deputy
- George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (1556-?)
- Simon Fraser, 6th Lord Lovat (c. 1599)
- High-Sheriffs
- Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (c. 1667–1747)
- Sheriffs-Depute
- Simon Fraser, 1781–1810 [2]
- William Fraser Tytler, 1810–1852
- George Young, 1853–1860 (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1860–62)
- Andrew Rutherfurd Clark, 1860–1862 [3] (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1862–69)
- William Ivory, 1862–1882 [3][4]
Sheriffs of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn (1882) edit
- William Ivory, 1882–1900[5]
- Christopher Nicholson Johnston, 1900–1905[5][6]
- James Ferguson, 1905–1905[7]
- John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, 1905–1912[7][8][9] (Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute, 1912)
- Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, 1912–1917[8][10] (Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute, 1917)
- George Watt KC, 1917– 1934 [11][12]
- Robert Henry Maconochie KC, 1934–1942 [12][13] (Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan, 1942–1961)
- Charles Mackintosh KC, 1942–1944 [13][14] (Senator of the College of Justice from 1944)
- Ronald Peter Morison KC, 1944-1945 [15][16]
- John Cameron, 1945–1946 [17]
Sheriffs of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty (1946) edit
- John Cameron, 1946–1948 [17]
- Hector MacKechnie, QC, –1958 [18] (Sheriff of Perth and Angus, 1958)
- Douglas Mason Campbell, QC, 1958– [18]
- Sheriffdom dissolved in 1975 and replaced by that of Grampian, Highland and Islands.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Union of Sheriffdoms Order 1946 S.I.1946/1037 (S.40)
- ^ Parliament, Great Britain. The Parliamentary Register. p. 539.
- ^ a b "No. 7278". The Edinburgh Gazette. 25 November 1862. p. 1805.
- ^ Lee, Thomas. Seekers of Truth: The Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy. p. 177.
- ^ a b SCOTTISH LAW REVIEW AND SHERIFF COURT REPORTS. VOL. XXIL— 1906. p. 42.
- ^ "No. 11693". The Edinburgh Gazette. 27 January 1905. p. 89.
- ^ a b "No. 11730". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 June 1905. p. 538.
- ^ a b "No. 12447". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 April 1912. p. 335.
- ^ Who Was Who 1929–1940, p. 40.
- ^ Who Was Who 1941–1950, p. 732.
- ^ "No. 29913". The London Gazette. 23 January 1917. p. 843.
- ^ a b "No. 34031". The London Gazette. 9 March 1934. p. 1604.
- ^ a b "No. 15918". The London Gazette. 22 May 1942. p. 215.
- ^ "No. 16132". The Edinburgh Gazette. 9 June 1944. p. 183.
- ^ "No. 16151". The Edinburgh Gazette. 15 August 1944. p. 248.
- ^ "No. 36911". The London Gazette. 26 January 1945. p. 588.
- ^ a b "No. 37663". The London Gazette. 23 July 1946. p. 3797.
- ^ a b "No. 41305". The London Gazette. 7 February 1958. p. 850.
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