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Sheriff of Inverness

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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.Union of Sheriffdoms Order 1946 S.I.1946/1037 (S.40) That sheriffdom was dissolved in turn in 1975 and replaced by that of the Sheriff Principal of Grampian, Highland and Islands.

Sheriffs of Inverness

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  • 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-?)
  • George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly (at 1584){{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Keith |title=Ratification of a decreet given in favour of Alexander Gordon, earl of Sutherland against George Sinclair, earl of Caithness, 22 August 1584 |website=The Records of the Parliament of Scotland to 1707 |url=http://www.rps.ac.uk/trans/1584/5/98 |publisher=University of St Andrews |access-date=27 September 2024}}
  • Simon Fraser, 6th Lord Lovat (c. 1599)

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  • Simon Fraser, 1781–1810 {{cite book|title=The Parliamentary Register|first= Great Britain|last=Parliament|page=539}}
  • William Fraser Tytler, 1810–1852
  • George Young, 1853–1860 (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1860–62)
  • Andrew Rutherfurd Clark, 1860–1862 {{London Gazette|issue=7278|city=e|page=1805|date=25 November 1862}} (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1862–69)
  • William Ivory, 1862–1882 {{cite book|title=Seekers of Truth: The Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy|first=Thomas|last=Lee|page=177}}

Sheriffs of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn (1882)

  • William Ivory, 1882–1900{{cite book|title=SCOTTISH LAW REVIEW AND SHERIFF COURT REPORTS. VOL. XXIL— 1906|page=42}}
  • Christopher Nicholson Johnston, 1900–1905{{London Gazette|issue=11693|city= E|page=89|date=27 Jan 1905}}
  • James Ferguson, 1905–1905{{London Gazette|issue=11730|city= E|page=538|date=2 June 1905}}
  • John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, 1905–1912{{London Gazette|issue=12447|city=E|page=335|date=2 April 1912}}Who Was Who 1929–1940, p. 40. (Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute, 1912)
  • Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, 1912–1917Who Was Who 1941–1950, p. 732. (Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute, 1917)
  • George Watt KC, 1917– 1934 {{London Gazette|nolink=y|issue=29913|page=843|date=23 January 1917}}{{London Gazette|issue=34031|page=1604|date=9 March 1934}}
  • Robert Henry Maconochie KC, 1934–1942 {{London Gazette|issue=15918|page=215|date=22 May 1942 }} (Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan, 1942–1961)
  • Charles Mackintosh KC, 1942–1944 {{London Gazette|issue=16132|page=183|city=e|date=9 June 1944}} (Senator of the College of Justice from 1944)
  • Ronald Peter Morison KC, 1944-1945 {{London Gazette|issue=16151|page=248|city=e|date=15 August 1944}}{{London Gazette|issue=36911|page=588|date=26 January 1945}}
  • John Cameron, 1945–1946 {{London Gazette|issue=37663|page=3797|date=23 July 1946}}

Sheriffs of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty (1946)

See also

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