Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles
The Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in The Lothians and Peebles, 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.
The position of Sheriff of the Lothians had been created in 1881 following a merger of the sheriffdom of Midlothian and Haddington with the Linlithgow part of the sheriffdom of Linlithgow, Clackmannan & Kinross. The position of Sheriff of Peebles was then joined to it in 1883 to create the new position of Sheriff of the Lothians & Peebles.
This latter sheriffdom was replaced in 1975 by the current sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders.
Sherriffs of Lothian
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- Alexander Fairlie of Braid, 1594
Sheriffs of the Lothians (1881)
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Sheriffs of Peebles
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- Gilbert Fraser, 1259
- Aymer de Maxwell, 1262
- Simon Fraser of Oliver, 1266-1291
- William of Durham, 1302
- Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, 1306
- Patrick Fleming of Biggar, 1327 - 1346
- Adam Lockhart, 1357
- Lawrence of Govan, 1359
- Thomas Hay, 1373
- Walter Tweedy, 1373 - Deputy
- William Hay, 1388
- Adam Dickson, 1388 - Deputy
- Patrick Fleming of Bord 1397
- John Hay, 1st Lord Hay of Yester, 1464–1509
- David Hay, 1470
- Thomas Hay, 1470 - Deputy
- Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming 1531-1540
- William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, 1724–1747
- James Veitch of Elliock, 1747–
- Sheriffs-Depute
- James Montgomery, 1748–?1760
- Alexander Murray of Murrayfield, 1761–1775
- James Wolf Murray, 1789–1811
- James Wedderburn, 1811–1816
- Andrew Clephane, 1816–>1825
- John Wood, c.1835–1840
- George Napier, 1840-1883
Sheriffs of the Lothians and Peebles (1883)
- James Arthur Crichton, 1885–1891
- Alexander Blair, 1891–1896
- Andrew Rutherford, 1896–1904
- Charles Cornelius Maconochie, 1904-1918
- Gerard Lake Crole, KC, 1918–1927
- Charles Herbert Brown, KC, 1927–c.1937
- John Charles Fenton, 1942–1951
- James Albert Gilchrist, QC, 1953–
- William Ross McLean, QC, 1960–
- Gerald Paisley Sinclair Shaw, 1965–
- William James Bryden, 1973–1975 (Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders, 1975)
- After 1975 the sheriffdom was merged into the new sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders.
See also
References
- ↑ "Resignation of a Sheriff". Dundee Courier. 30 August 1881.
- ↑ "Commissariat of Edinburgh, Vol. 1, 1514-1600" (PDF). Electric Scotland. Scottish Record Society. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ↑ NRS GD436/1/2
- ↑ Bruce Webster, editor, Regesta Regum Scottorum, The Acts of David II, King Of Scots 1329-1371: (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982), 6 vols. VI, 139 (ch. 108)
- ↑ Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol i, 1306-1424, app 2, ch 1883
- ↑ Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558
- ↑ "Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ↑ "MURRAY, Alexander (1736-95), of Murrayfield, Edinburgh, and Henderland, Peebles". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ↑ Parliament, Great Britain. The Parliamentary Register. p. 539.
- ↑ The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 73, Part 1. p. 235.
- ↑ The London Gazette, Part 2. p. 1407.
- 1 2 Accounts and Papers, Finance, Banks. Offices. Vol. XIII. p. 71.
- ↑ Sheriff Courts. The Scottish law review and Sheriff Court reports, Volume 22. p. 11.
- 1 2 THE SCOTTISH LAW REVIEW AND SHERIFF COURT REPORTS. VOL. XXIL— 1906. p. 5.
- ↑ SCOTTISH LAW REVIEW AND SHERIFF COURT REPORTS. VOL. XXIL— 1906. p. 42.
- ↑ "No. 30727". The London Gazette. 4 June 1918. p. 6584.
- ↑ "No. 30727". The London Gazette. 4 June 1918. p. 6584.
- 1 2 "No. 14393". The Edinburgh Gazette. 22 November 1927. p. 1319.
- ↑ "Steam Trawler "RIVER AVON" THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894 REPORT OF COURT". Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- 1 2 "No. 39154". The London Gazette. 20 February 1951. p. 925.
- ↑ "No. 17864". The Edinburgh Gazette. 11 October 1960. p. 615.
- 1 2 "SHERIFFS (SCOTLAND)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 21 May 1974. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
