Sheriff of Caithness

The Sheriff of Caithness was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Caithness, Scotland.

The sheriffdom of Caithness appears to have been created in the mid 12th century and to have been dissolved and incorporated into the sheriffdom of Inverness in the 13th century. in 1455, William Sinclair, Earl of Caithness gained a grant of the justiciary and sheriffdom of the area from the Sheriff of Inverness. 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.

In 1747, the office became known as the Sheriff of Caithness & Sutherland, however the sheriffdoms were disunited in 1806 again being known as the Sheriff of Caithness. It became the Sheriff of Sutherland & Caithness in 1857.[1] In 1870 the office became known as the Sheriff of Caithness, Orkney & Shetland.[2] It was again reorganised as the Sheriff of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney & Zetland in 1946, but was abolished in 1975 when the current sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands was created.

Sheriffs of Caithness

Sheriffs of Caithness and Sutherland (1747)

  • James Brodie of Spynie, 1747–1756 [3]
  • John Sinclair the younger, 1756–1784 [3]
  • James Traill, 1784–1806 [4] [3] (Sheriff of Caithness, 1806–)

Sheriffs of Caithness (1806)

Sheriffs of Sutherland and Caithness (1857)

Sheriffs of Caithness, Orkney and Shetland (1870)

Sheriffs of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney & Zetland (1946)

See also

References

  1. "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries". Morning Chronicle. 30 May 1857.
  2. "No. 8087". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 August 1870. p. 1001.
  3. "Sheriffs of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland". Dornoch Historylinks. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  4. The London Gazette, Part 2. p. 1189.
  5. The London Gazette, Part 2. p. 1189.
  6. Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. p. 900.
  7. "No. 6729". The Edinburgh Gazette. 21 August 1857. p. 757.
  8. SCOTTISH LAW REVIEW AND SHERIFF COURT REPORTS. VOL. XXIL— 1906. p. 39.
  9. "No. 11182". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 March 1900. p. 282.
  10. Who Was Who 1929–1940, p. 40.
  11. "No. 11730". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 June 1905. p. 538.
  12. "No. 11778". The Edinburgh Gazette. 17 November 1905. p. 1117.
  13. "No. 13103". The Edinburgh Gazette. 15 June 1917. p. 1139.
  14. "No. 13560". The Edinburgh Gazette. 6 February 1920. p. 340.
  15. "No. 14513". The Edinburgh Gazette. 15 January 1929. p. 81.
  16. "No. 14816". The Edinburgh Gazette. 11 December 1931. p. 1313.
  17. "No. 16103". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 February 1944. p. 65.
  18. "No. 37663". The London Gazette. 23 July 1946. p. 3797.
  19. "No. 39601". The London Gazette. 18 July 1952. p. 3876.
  20. "No. 42427". The London Gazette. 1 August 1961. p. 5682.
  21. "Death of former Sheriff Principal O'Brien". Law Society. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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