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Sheriff Of Roxburgh, Berwick And Selkirk
The Sheriff of Roxburgh was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in that area of 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 Roxburgh and Selkirk was created in 1868 following a merger of the position with that of Sheriff of Selkirk. The combined sheriffdom was further enlarged in 1872 by its merger with part of the sheriffdom of Haddington and Berwick to create the sheriffdom of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk. That resulting sheriffdom was dissolved in turn in 1975 with the creation of the current sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders. Sheriffs of Roxburgh * Gospatric, c.1120 (first sheriff) *Walter Corbet, 1199 *Bernard de Hauben, 1202 *Adam of Baggot, 1235 *Nicholas de Soules (died 1264), 1237, 1246 *Hugh de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheriff Of Selkirk
The Sheriff of Selkirk was historically a royal official responsible for enforcing justice in Selkirk, 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 of the Scottish sheriffdoms in 1868 the position became the Sheriff of Roxburgh and Selkirk. Sheriffs of Selkirk *Andrew Sinton (c.1214) *Alexander Sinton (1265) *Andrew Sinton *Alexander Synton (-1293) *Andrew Synton (1293-) *Hugh of Eyland (1296) *Isabella Synton (1305) * Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (1306) *Edward Keith (1328) *Robert de Manners (1334) *William de Montacute (1335) *John Turnbull (1360) **John Turnbull (1364) - Deputy *Thomas Erskyne (1373) *Thomas Erskine (1469) *John Murray (1503) ;Sheriffs-Depute *George Sinclair, Lord Woodall, –1751 * Andrew Pringle, 1751–1755 *Walter Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheriff Of Ross, Cromarty And Sutherland
The Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Ross-shire, Cromarty and Sutherland, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. Original known as the office of the Sheriff of Cromarty it became known, following mergers of the Scottish sheriffdoms, as the Sheriff of Ross & Cromarty in 1747 and the Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty & Sutherland in 1870. Following a further merger in 1946 it became the Sheriff of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty. Sheriffs of Cromarty The position of the sheriff of Cromarty was a heritable position. *William de Monte Alto (1266) * William de Monte Alto (1296-1304), (1305-?) * William III, Earl of Ross (c. 1345) *Adam Urquhart (1365) *William Urquhart (c.1470) *Alexander Urquhart (1497) Sheriffs of Ross *1493: Hugh Ross of Balnagowan *1499: David Ross of Balnagowan *1706–1722: Hugh Rose of Kilravock *1725–1729: Sir Robert Munro of Foulis *1729–1732: Hugh Rose, 15th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Development Of Scottish Sheriffdoms
A sheriffdom is a judicial district of Scotland. Originally identical to the Shires of Scotland, from the eighteenth century many counties were grouped to form "sheriffdoms". By 1975 there were 12 sheriffdoms, with only Lanarkshire not grouped with another county. Following the abolition of the counties and formation of new local government areas in 1975 and 1996 the number of sheriffdoms has been reduced to six. Shires originated in the twelfth century when the office of sheriff was introduced to Scotland. These shires eventually became the counties of Scotland. Malcolm III appears to have introduced sheriffs as part of a policy of replacing Gaelic forms of government with Norman feudal structures. This was continued by his sons Edgar, Alexander I and in particular David I. David completed the division of the country into sheriffdoms by the conversion of existing thanedoms. The ending of heritable jurisdictions At the accession of George II in 1727 twenty-two sher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Oswald Mair Hunter, Lord Hunter
John Oswald Mair Hunter, Lord Hunter VRD (1913–2006) was a 20th-century Scottish advocate who served as a Senator of the College of Justice. He was known to friends as Jack Hunter. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 21 February 1913 the son of John Mair Hunter QC. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Rugby School. He studied Law at both New College, Oxford and Edinburgh University. He passed both the English and Scottish bar as an advocate in 1937. In September 1939 as an officer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve he was called up prior to the onset of the Second World War serving on the mine-layer Menestheus. He reached the rank of Lt Commander. After the war he practiced as an advocate in Edinburgh. He became King's Counsel in 1951 (Queen's Counsel following the coronation of Elizabeth II). In 1957 he became Sheriff Principal of Argyll and Bute. In 1972 he became Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk. In October 1961 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Keith, Baron Keith Of Kinkel
Henry Shanks Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel, (7 February 1920 – 21 June 2002) was a British judge. The son of James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm, Harry Keith was educated in the Edinburgh Academy, at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Law. In the Second World War, he was an officer in the Scots Guards and was mentioned in dispatches, reaching the rank of Captain. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1950, and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1962. In 1951, he had been called to the English Bar from Gray's Inn, where he became a bencher in 1976. He appointed as Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1970, succeeding David Brand. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice with the judicial title Lord Keith in 1971. On 10 January 1977, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made additionally a life peer with the title Baron Keith of Kink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brand, Lord Brand
David William Robert Brand, Lord Brand (21 October 1923 – 14 April 1996) was a British lawyer and judge. He had a conservative outlook on life, and as a judge he had a reputation for both speedy decisions and severe sentences. His university education was interrupted by service in the British Army during World War II. He then became an advocate, and after a career as a prosecutor, he was a sheriff in southern Scotland from 1968 to 1970. He was Solicitor-General for Scotland from 1970 to 1972, and then served from 1972 to 1989 as a Senator of the College of Justice. In 1994, he was briefly an appellate judge in Botswana. Early life Brand was born in Edinburgh on 21 October 1923, to a Catholic family from Aberdeenshire. His father was a sheriff-substitute and writer to the Signet, who became Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway and moved the family to Dumfries, where Brand was raised. His father died when he was nine years old, but with financial assistance from an uncle he was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Smith Johnston, Lord Kincraig
Hon. Lord (Robert Smith Johnston) Kincraig (10 October 1918 – 19 September 2004) was a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland from 1972 to 1987; chairman, Parole Review Body for Scotland, 1988. Early life Robert Smith Johnston was educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire. He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in 1939 and from the University of Glasgow in 1942. Owing to a medical condition he was considered unfit for military service at the beginning of the Second World War and so continued his studies and began his legal career during those years. Career Johnston was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1942 and quickly established a substantial and varied practice which he developed during the forties and fifties. He served as an Advocate Depute from 1953 to 1955 to the Crown Office and became a King's Counsel (Scotland) in 1955. In 1959 he unsuccessfully contested the Stirling and Falkirk burghs constituency in the general election as a Unionist ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Stott, Lord Stott
George Gordon Stott, Lord Stott, PC, QC (22 December 1909 – 12 April 1999) was a Scottish advocate, sheriff and Lord Advocate, the chief legal officer for the Crown and government in Scotland. In retirement Gordon Stott published three volumes of extracts from the diaries he had been keeping throughout his legal career. Personal life Gordon Stott was born in 1909, youngest son of Rev Dr George Stott, minister of Cramond Kirk, Edinburgh, and Flora Stott. He attended the village school, and went on to Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, where he graduated with first-class honours in Classics and won the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in law. He was a pacifist, and during World War II he was a conscientious objector, working on the land as alternative to military service. On behalf of other conscientious objectors, he acted as '' pro bono'' counsel at tribunals for conscientious objectors. From 1939 to 1944 he edited a Labour journal, the ''Edinburgh Clarion''. He uns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. In 1870 the office became known as the Sheriff of Caithness, Orkney & Shetland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Leslie, Lord Birsay
Harald Robert Leslie, Lord Birsay, KT, CBE, TD, QC, DL (8 May 1905 – 27 November 1982) was a Scottish lawyer and judge, and Chairman of the Scottish Land Court. Early life Leslie was born on 8 May 1905, the son of Robert Leslie, Master Mariner, and educated at Earlston School, Berwickshire High School, and the High School of Glasgow. He studied at the University of Glasgow, first studying Arts ( MA, 1927) and then at the University's School of Law (LLB, 1930). He was admitted as a solicitor in 1930 and to the Faculty of Advocates in 1937. He had been a member of the Officers' Training Corps while at school and university, and during the Second World War served in the Royal Scots, being appointed a military Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and mentioned in despatches. Legal career Following the War, Leslie was appointed Standing Counsel to the Department of Agriculture, becoming an Advocate Depute in 1947. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1949, and in 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheriff Of Renfrew
A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated. There is an analogous, although independently developed, office in Iceland that is commonly translated to English as ''sherif''. Description Historically, a sheriff was a legal official with responsibility for a shire, the term being a contraction of "shire reeve" (Old English ). In British English, the political or legal office of a sheriff, term of office of a sheriff, or jurisdiction of a sheriff, is called a shrievalty in England and Wales, and a sheriffdom in Scotland. In modern times, the specific combination of legal, political and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country. * In England, Northern Ireland, or Wales, a sheriff (or high sheriff) is a ceremonial county or city official. * In Scotland, sheriffs are judges. * In the Republic of Ireland, in some counties and in the cities of Dublin an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Theodore Salvesen
The Hon. Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen (20 July 1857 – 23 February 1942) was a Scottish lawyer, politician and judge who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice. Life Edward Theodore Salvesen was the son of Christian Frederik Salvesen (1827–1911), the Norwegian-born founder of the Christian Salvesen shipping line of Leith. He was born at 20 Charlotte Street in Leith, where his father lived and worked in his early days in Scotland. The family moved to Catherine Bank House on Newhaven Road as his father's fortunes increased. facing onto Bonnington Park House and Victoria Park (the house was demolished c.1900 to create the Dudley estate). Salvesen studied law at the University of Edinburgh, and was called to the Scottish Bar in 1880, becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1899. He was an unsuccessful Liberal Unionist parliamentary candidate for Leith Burghs in 1900, and for Bute in 1905. Salvesen's Edinburgh residence was at 40 Drumsheugh Gardens, a large townhou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
