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Sheriff of Aberdeen

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The Sheriff of Aberdeen was a royal official who was responsible for enforcing justice in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputies, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.

In 1870 the sheriffdom was merged with that of Kincardineshire to create the post of Sheriff of Aberdeen and Kincardine. The combined sheriffdom then absorbed Banffshire in 1882 to create the post of Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff.

This sheriffdom was abolished in 1975 and replaced by the current Sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands.

Sheriffs of Aberdeen

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  • William Forbes, 1728-
  • Alexander Grant of Grantsfield 1741–
  • David Dalrymple, Lord Westhall, 1748–1777 {{cite book|title=Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volume 19|page=156}}
  • Alexander Elphinstone of Glack, 1777–1795
  • Alexander Moir, 1795-1822
  • Andrew Murray, 1822-1847 {{cite book|title=Accounts and Papers, Finance, Banks. Offices. Vol. XIII|page=71}}
  • John Thomson Gordon, 1847–1848 {{cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|publisher= Royal Society of Edinburgh|accessdate= 26 October 2017}} (Sheriff of Edinburgh, 1848-)
  • Archibald Davidson, 1848–1865 {{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofsociety00hendrich/historyofsociety00hendrich_djvu.txt|title=History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen|accessdate=15 April 2018}} (Sheriff of Edinburgh, 1865–)
  • Andrew Jameson, 1865–1870

Sheriffs of Aberdeen and Kincardine (1870)

  • Andrew Jameson, 1865–1870
  • John Guthrie Smith, 1870–1882 {{London Gazette|issue=23683|page=5417|date=29 November 1870}}

Sheriffs of Aberdeen and Kincardine and Banff (1882)

  • John Guthrie Smith, 1882–1895
  • Donald Crawford, 1895–1911 {{cite book|title=Sheriff Courts. The Scottish law review and Sheriff Court reports, Volume 22|page=16}} {{London Gazette|issue=26639|page=3741|date=2 July 1895}}
  • John Campbell Lorimer, 1911–1920 {{London Gazette|issue=12394|city= E|page=965|date=29 September 1911}}
  • Alexander Logan McClure, 1920–1932 {{London Gazette|issue=13560|city= E|page=340|date=6 February 1920}} {{London Gazette|issue=33875| page=6626|date=21 October 1932}}
  • (Sir) George Morton, 1932–1953
  • James Walker, 1953–54 {{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=SC1|title=Catalog Search|publisher= National Records of Scotland|accessdate=25 February 2021}}
  • Thomas Pringle McDonald, 1954–1969 {{London Gazette|city=E|issue=19030|page=757| date=28 September 1971}}
  • Interim appointment of Sheriff F.W.F. O'Brien, 1969–1971
  • Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, 1971–1972
  • George Stanley Gimson, 1972–1975 {{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1974/may/21/sheriffs-scotland|title=SHERIFFS (SCOTLAND)|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=21 May 1974|access-date= 19 October 2017}} (Sheriff Principal of Grampian, Highland and Islands, 1975-1982)

See also

References

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  • [https://archive.org/stream/aberdeenshirerec01aberuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Records of the Sheriff court of Aberdeenshire, ed. Littlejohn, D., Aberdeen 1904. pp.393-430]

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