High Sheriff of County Cork

The High Sheriff of County Cork was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Cork. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became an annual appointment following the Provisions of Oxford in 1258.{{cite book | first1 = John David Griffith |last1=Davies |first2=Frederick Robert |last2=Worts | title = England in the Middle Ages: Its Problems and Legacies | publisher = A. A. Knopf | year = 1928 | pages = 119 }} Besides his judicial importance, the sheriff had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.{{cite book | last = Alexander | first = George Glover | title = The Administration of Justice in Criminal Matters (in England and Wales) | url = https://archive.org/details/administrationof00alexuoft | year = 1915 | publisher = The University Press | pages = [https://archive.org/details/administrationof00alexuoft/page/89 89] }}

The first (High) Shrievalties were established before the Norman Conquest in 1066 and date back to Saxon times.{{cite book | last = Morris | first = William Alfred | title = The Medieval English Sheriff to 1300 | url = https://archive.org/details/medievalenglishs0000morr | url-access = registration | publisher = Manchester University Press | location = Manchester | year = 1968 | isbn = 0-7190-0342-3 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/medievalenglishs0000morr/page/73 73] }} 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.{{cite book | last = Millward | first = Paul | title = Civic Ceremonial: A Handbook, History and Guide for Mayors, Councillors and Officers | year = 2007 | publisher = Shaw | isbn = 978-0-7219-0164-0 | pages = 163 }} Despite however that the office retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.

High Sheriffs of County Cork

1319: John FitzSimon {{cite web| url = http://www.mocavo.com/The-County-and-City-of-Cork-Remembrancer-or-Annals-of-the-County-and-City-of-Cork/254276/436|title= High Sheriffs of the County of Cork|access-date = 26 September 2014}}
1343: Nicholas de Barry
1344: David Barry, 5th Lord Barry
1352: John Lumbard
1355: John LumbardA genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland
1358: John Lumbard
1377: John Warner
1386: Robert Thame
1400: Robert Cogan Patent Roll 1 Henry IV
1401: John Barry, 7th Lord Barry
1403–1415: John Barry, 7th Lord Barry
1433: William Barry, 8th Lord Barry
1451: William Barry, 8th Lord Barry
1461: William Barry, 8th Lord Barry
1568-1570: Sir Richard Grenville
1580: Cormack MacTeige

17th century

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1603: Sir Francis Kingsmill
1604: Sir Francis Kingsmill
1607: Sir Francis Kingsmill
1609: Edward Percy
1611: Sir Thomas Brown
1612–13: Piers Power
1613: Sir Thomas Southall
1614: William Booley
1616: Samuel Norton
1617: William Galwey
1620: Callaghan O'Callaghan
1621: Sir John Fitzgerald
1622: Sir Thomas Fitzgerald
1627: James Daunt, of Tracton Abbey A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke
1634: Edmond Fitzgerald
1636: Daniel McCarthy Reagh
1641: John Long of Mount Long
1641: Francis Roche
1642: William Supple
1645: Thomas Daunt of Gortigrenane and Owlpen ManorA genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke
1657: John Hodder of Bridgetown
1661: William Hodder of Coolmoor
1664: Redmond Barry
1665: Richard Aldworth
1669: John Wyddenham
1670: Arthur Hyde of Castle HydeA genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke
1671-1672: Richard Townsend of Castle Townsend
1673: Phineas Bury
1673: William Thornhill
1674: Roger Osborne
1675: William Harmer, jnr
1676: Francis Bernard
1677: Sir Emanuel Moore, 1st Baronet
1677: Christopher Crofts
1678: Richard Hull
1679: Epinetus Cross {{cite book|title= Families of County Cork, Ireland, Volume 4|first= Michael|last = O'Laughlin|page=59}}
1680: John Folliott
1681: William Supple
1682: Richard Travers
1683: John Folliott
1684: Arthur Hide
1685: Arthur Hide
1686: Lawrence Clayton {{cite book|title= Families of County Cork, Ireland, Volume 4|first= Michael|last = O'Laughlin|page=48}}
1687: William Coppinger
1687–88: Nicholas Browne
1689: Pierce Nagle of Anakisha
1690: Robert Foulkes
1692: Boyle Aldworth
1693: Simon Dring
1693: John Folliott
1694: Percy Freke of Rathbarry (afterwards Castle Freke)Complete Baronetage
1695: John St Leger
1696: Digby Foulkes
1697: Arthur Bernard
1698: Thomas Hodder

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18th century

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1700: John Barry
1701: Laurence Clayton
1702: Francis Foulkes/Richard Cox
1703: Richard Cox/ William Supple
1704: John Browne
1705: William Supple
1706: Arthur Bernard
1707: John Silver
1708: Bartholomew Purdon
1709: Ralph Freke
1710: Arthur Hyde
1711: James Worth Tynte of Ballycrenane /Richard Cox
1712: George Crofts
1713: Richard Cox of Dunmanway
1714: Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet of DromoreComplete Baronetage, p.351
1715: Richard Croker
1716: Gersham Herrick
1717: Anthony Jephson
1718: William Maynard of Carriglass
1719: Edward Corker {{cite book|title= Families of County Cork, Ireland, Volume 4|first= Michael|last = O'Laughlin|page=54}}
1720: Randolph Clayton
1721: Redmond Barry of RathcormackA genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke
1722: John Fitzgerald
1723: William Casaubon {{cite book|title= Families of County Cork, Ireland, Volume 4|first= Michael|last = O'Laughlin|page=46}}
1724: Richard Aldworth
1725: John Colthurst
1726: Richard Townsend
1727: Richard Cox of Dunmanway
1728: Hon. David John Barry of Mahona
1729: Roger Bernard
1730: Noblett Dunscombe
1731: Robert Bettesworth
1732: John Lysaght
1733: John Rogers of Ashgrove
1734: Redmond Barry of Ballyclough
1735: Anthony Jephson, jnr of Mallow
1736: Nicholas Colthurst
1737: Richard Newman
1738: John Colthurst, later Sir John Colthurst, 1st Baronet
1739: Richard Smyth of Ballynatray
1739: Thomas Evans of Miltown
1740: Anthony Jephson, jnr of Mallow
1741: Edward Herrick of Shippool
1742: Samuel Townshend
1743: Edmond Supple of Supplescourt
1744: Samuel Hutchinson of Bantry
1745: Boyle Aldworth
1746: Hugh Lumley of Ballymaloe
1747: James Colthurst
1748: William Jephson {{cite book|title= Families of County Cork, Ireland, Volume 4|first= Michael|last = O'Laughlin|page=195}}
1749: Samuel Daunt of Knocknasillagh
1749: Daniel Laurence
1750: James Lombard of Lombardstown
1751: Richard Uniacke of Mount Uniacke
1752: Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet of Kilbarry
1753: Richard Townsend of Castle Townsend
1754: John Lysaght of Mount North
1755: Philip Oliver
1756: Robert Rogers of Lota
1757: John Lysaght, jnr
1758: Richard Longfield of Castlemary{{cite book|title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2 | first=Bernard |last =Burke|page = 811}} Google Books
1759: William Warren of Hollyhill
1760: Abraham Morris of Hanoverhall
1761: Wallis Colthurst of Cork
1762: Abraham Devonsher of Kilshannick
1763: Walter Baldwin of Mount Pleasant{{cite web|url = http://www.radleysofcork.bigpondhosting.com/my_homepage_files/page9.html|title = Radleys of Cork|access-date = 2 December 2012|archive-date = 26 April 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120426190130/http://www.radleysofcork.bigpondhosting.com/My_Homepage_Files/Page9.html|url-status = dead}}
1764: Emanuel Moore of Maryboro {{cite news| title = High Sheriffs 1764| newspaper =Freeman Journal| date = 7 February 1764| url= http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Dublin/1764/FEB.html| access-date = 6 May 2011}}
1765: Nicholas Dunscombe of Mount Desert
1766: Walter Aikin of Levingtown
1767: Roger Bernard of Palace-Anne
1768: Nicholas Lysaght of Carriglass{{cite web|url= http://www.bytown.net/becher.htm| title= The BECHER and WRIXON families of North Cork, Ireland|access-date = 2 December 2012}}
1769: Jonas Morris of Barley Hill
1770: Hon. John S Barry of Ann-Grove
1771: Benjamin Bousfield of Aghadown
1772: John Wallis of Westwood
1773: Sir Robert Tilson Deane, 6th Baronet of DromoreComplete Baronetage, p.342
1774: Massey Hutcheson
1775: Matthew Freeman, died and replaced by John Longfield of Longueville
1776: James Uniacke{{cite book|title = Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.}}
1777: Henry Baldwin
1778: William Wrixon
1779: William Wrixon
1780: John Martin of Blackrock
1780: Hon. Hayes St Leger
1781: Sir James Laurence Cotter, 2nd Baronet of RockforestComplete Baronetage, p.372
1782: Abraham Morris of Hanover Hall {{London Gazette|issue=12273|page=1|date=23 February 1782}}
1783: William Chetwynd of Cork {{London Gazette|issue=12422|page=3|date=11 March 1783}}
1784: Thomas Hungerford {{London Gazette|issue=12525|page=3|date=6 March 1784}}
1785: Richard Boyle Townsend of Castle Townsend
1786: Sir Broderick Chinnery, 1st Baronet of Flintfield
1787: William W. Newenham
1788: Sir Nicholas Colthurst, 3rd Baronet of Ardun
1789: George Dunscombe of Mount Desert
1790: Joseph Capel
1791: Arthur O'Connor
1792: Nicholas G Evans, jnr
1793: Kilner Brooke Brasier
1794: John Wallis
1795: Robert Hedges
1796: Augustus Louis Warren, later Sir Augustus Louis Carre Warren, 2nd BaronetComplete Baronetage, p.412
1797: Edward Deane-Freeman of Castle Cor
1798: Samuel Townsend of Whitehall
1799: Samuel Swete

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19th century

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1800: Henry Puxley{{cite web| url = http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/ContinuingUnrest.htm|title= Cork Continuing Unrest|access-date = 1 October 2012}}
1801: Robert M'Carthy
1802: Richard Thomas Orpen
1803: Robert William Delacour of Beare Forest
1804: William Wrixon BeecherPapers by Command-Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons-Volume 16
1805: John Travers
1806: John Anderson
1807: Richard Townsend
1808: John Hyde of Castle Hyde
1809: Justin McCarty
1810: Michael Gould Adams
1811: Joshua Deane-Freeman of Castle Cor
1812: Hon Hayes St Leger
1813: William Baldwin
1814: Henry Wallis of Drishane Castle
1815: John Michael Wrixon{{cite book|title= Reports from Commissioners Volume 4 (Ireland)|year = 1824}}
1816: Savage French
1817: John Townsend
1818: Jemmett Browne
1819: Augustus Warren, later Sir Augustus Warren, 3rd BaronetComplete Baronetage, p.413
1820: Hon. William Smyth Bernard
1821: Henry Greene Barry of Ballyclough
1822: Wills George Crofts
1823: William H. W. Newenham
1824: Robert Uniacke FitzGerald, of Lisquinlan{{cite news | title = High Sheriffs, 1824 | newspaper = The Connaught Journal | date = 1 March 1824 | url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Galway/1824/MAR.html| access-date = 10 May 2011}}
1825: J. Smith Barry of Foaty {{cite news | title = High Sheriffs, 1825 | newspaper = The Connaught Journal | date = 7 February 1825 | url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Galway/1825/FEB.html | access-date = 9 July 2009 }}
1826: George Courtenay of Dromadda
1827: Simon Dring of Rockgrove{{cite news | title = High Sheriffs, 1827 | newspaper = The Kilkenny Independent | date = 24 February 1827 | url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Kilkenny/1827/FEB.html | access-date = 9 July 2009 }}
1828: Michael Creagh, of Kilbrack, of Doneraile.{{cite news | title = High Sheriffs, 1828 | newspaper = The Newry Commercial Telegraph | date = 11 March 1828 | url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Newry/1828/18280311.html | access-date = 9 July 2009 }}
1829: John Longfield of LonguevilleA genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain
1830: Garrett Standish Barry of Leamlara
1830: Richard Townsend of Saros
1831: John Hyde, jnr of Castle Hyde
1832: Richard Oliver Aldworth of Newmarket Court
1833: Richard Longfield of Longueville (son of John, HS 1829)
1834: William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel
1835: Richard White, 2nd Earl of Bantry
1836: Hon. Robert Henry King of Mitchelstown Castle
1837: Sir George Goold, 2nd Baronet
1838: Richard White
1839: John Isaac Heard of Kinsale and Ballydaly
1840: John Capel Fitzgerald of Cloghroe, died and replaced by Horatio Townsend
1841: James Barry of Ballyclough
1842: Robert Delacour Beamish
1843: Hon. Arthur Grove-Annesley
1844: Sir Edward Synge, 3rd Baronet of Kiltrough.
1845: Hon. Hayes St. Leger of Doneraile House.{{cite news | title = High Sheriffs, 1845 | newspaper = The Armagh Guardian | date = 4 February 1845 | url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Armagh/1845/18450204.html | access-date = 9 July 2009 }}
1846: Edward Deane-Freeman.
1848: William Hedges-White of Bantry House.
1849: Viscount Kilworth, of Moore Park, Kilworth.{{cite news | title = High Sheriffs, 1849 | newspaper = The Anglo-Celt | date = 26 January 1849 | url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cavan/1849/JAN.html | access-date = 9 July 2009 }}
1850: Sir George Conway Colthurst, 5th Baronet of Ardum Inniscarra.{{cite news | title = High Sheriffs, 1850 | newspaper = Ballina Chronicle | date = 2 January 1850 | url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Mayo/1850/JAN.html | access-date = 9 July 2009 }}
1851: Sir James Charles Chatterton, 3rd Baronet.
1852: John Courteney of Bally Edmond and Barrymagooly.
1854: John McCarthy O'Leary.{{cite book|title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2 | first=Bernard |last =Burke|page = 1018}} Google Books
1855: Mountifort Longfield of Castle Mary.
1856: Alexander M'Carthy of Currymount, Buttevant.{{cite web|url = http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Cork/1856/JAN.html|title= The Cork Examiner, 28 January 1856 HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1856|publisher= The Cork Examiner|access-date= 28 September 2014}}
1857: John Wallis.
1858: Thomas St John Grant of Kilmurry, Kilworth.{{London Gazette|city = e|issue = 6775|page=180|date= 29 January 1858}}
1859:
1860: Nicholas Dunscombe of Mount Desert, Cork.{{London Gazette|city = e|issue = 6982|page=88|date= 24 January 1860}}
1861: William Johnson of Vosterburg.
1862: Simon Dring.
1863: Thomas Somerville of Drishane.{{cite book| title= The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy| author = Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieva|page = 366}}
1864: James Morrogh.{{cite web| url = http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/northcork/grovewhitenotes/monanimyparishtoshandrum/gw4_139_152.pdf| title= HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTEs|page= 145|access-date = 5 August 2013}}
1865: Henry Lavallin Puxley of Dunboy Castle.
1867: Sir Augustus Riversdale Warren, 5th Baronet.
1867: Sir John Wrixon-Becher.{{cite web| url = http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/pikescontemporarybiographies/nobility/biographies_hodges_complete_145_151.pdf| title = Contemporary Biographies| access-date = 20 August 2012| archive-date = 18 December 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121218155644/http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/pikescontemporarybiographies/nobility/biographies_hodges_complete_145_151.pdf| url-status = dead}}
1868: Richard Wallis Goold-Adams.
1869: Richard William Aldworth of Newmarket Court.
1870: Robert Heard of Kinsale and Pallastown.{{cite book| title =The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume |first=Marquis|last=of Ruvigny|page= 364}}
1871: Edmund Anderson Shuldham of Dunmanway.
1873: Edward FitzEdmund Burke Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy.
1874: John Adam Richard Newman of Dromore House.
1875: James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon
1880: John Harold-Barry of Ballyvonare.
1882: Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4th Baronet.
1883: Stephen Grehan.The Catholic Who's Who
1884: Sir George St John Colthurst, 6th Baronet.Complete Baronetage, p.355
1885: Phineas Bury.
1886: Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore.
1887: Richard Edmund Longfield of Longueville.
1888: Thomas Henry Somerville of Drishane.
1889: Henry Winthrop O'Donovan, The O'Donovan.
1891: Joseph Pike of Besborough.
1892: Morgan William O'Donovan, The O'Donovan.
1893: Richard Nason Woodley of Leades House.
1894: Reginald Bence-Jones of Lisselen.
1898: John Pretyman Newman of Newberry Manor and Kilshannig House.
1899: William Henry John Moore-Hodder of Hoddersfield.

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20th century

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1900: William de Wilton Roche of Aghada Hall.
1901: Robert Massey Dawson Sanders.{{Cite web |url=http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/northcork/grovewhitenotes/castlekevintoclenorparish/gw2_171_175.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=4 August 2013 |archive-date=17 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017103823/http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/northcork/grovewhitenotes/castlekevintoclenorparish/gw2_171_175.pdf |url-status=dead }}
1902: William Johnson of Rockenham.
1903: Edward Egerton Leigh-White of Bantry House.
1904: Anthony Hickman Morgan.{{cite book| title = The county families of the United Kingdom;| url = https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof01walf|first= Edward|last = Walford}} ebooksread
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1906: Mountifort Longfield of Timoleague.
1907: William Cooke-Collis.
1908: William Nicholas Leader of Rosnalee and Dromagh Castle.{{cite book|title = The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|url = https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof06walf|first = Edward|last = Walford}} Google Books
1909: Lt-Col Mountifort John Courteney Longfield of Castle Mary.
1910: James Robert Bury-Barry of Ballyclough.
1911: Robert Frederick Wilkinson of Carrokeal, Mallow.{{cite book|title= Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes|year= 1916}}
1912: John Charles Oliver Aldworth of Newmarket Court.{{cite book|title= The county families of the United Kingdom|url= https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof59walf|year= 1919|first= Edward|last = Walford}}
1913: William Tower Townshend of Myross Wood, Leap.{{cite book|title= Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes|year= 1916}}
1914: Sir James Laurence Cotter, 5th Bt., formerly of Rockforest.Edward Walford, The county families of the United Kingdom
1915:
1919: Arthur Chaloner Goold-Adams.
1920: Henry Green Barry.{{cite web| url= http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/U336-2.pdf| title= Cork City and County Archives| publisher= Cork City| access-date= 27 September 2014| archive-date= 4 December 2013| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131204044111/http://www.corkarchives.ie/media/U336-2.pdf| url-status= dead}}
1921: Matthew Henry Franks of Montrath, Queen's County.{{cite web|url = http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/streetandtradedirectories/1921guyscitycountyalmanacanddirectory/1921pages96to199/1921%20142-149.pdf|title = County Establishment|access-date = 26 November 2013|archive-date = 2 December 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230103/http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/streetandtradedirectories/1921guyscitycountyalmanacanddirectory/1921pages96to199/1921%20142-149.pdf|url-status = dead}}

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