The High Sheriff of Tipperary was the Sovereign's judicial representative in
County Tipperary. Initially an office for a lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the
High Sheriff became annually appointed from the
Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Besides his judicial importance, he had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.
History
The first (High) Shrievalties were established before the
Norman Conquest in 1066 and date back to
Saxon
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times. In 1908, an
Order in Council made the
Lord-Lieutenant
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the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. Despite however that the office retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.
County Tipperary was a liberty administered by the Earls of Ormond, who thereby appointed the Sheriff, until it was extinguished as part of the
second Duke's attainder for supporting the Jacobite rising of 1715. It then became a normal county under the direct control of the King.
In Tipperary and in four of the counties of the province of
Connaught the office ceased to exist with the establishment of the
Irish Free State in 1922.
High Sheriffs of Tipperary
*1295: Walter le Bret
*1318: John Pembroke
[''Patent Roll 11 Edward II'' ]
*1405: James Butler
[''Patent Roll 7 Henry IV'' ]
*1605: Hon Thomas Butler
*1610: Piers Butler fitzJames of Lismalin
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*1612: William St John of Skaddanston][
*1613: Thomas Cantwell][
*1614: Richard Butler of Knocktopher][
*1615: William O'Meary of Lisenoskey][
*1616: Daniel O'Bryen][
*1618: Gilbert Butler][
*1619: Robert Carew][
*1620: William St John][
*1625: William O'Meara][
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English Interregnum, 1649–1660
*1657: Richard le Hunte of CashelSir Thomas Stanley
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Charles II, 1660–1685
*1660:
*1666: Thomas Sadleir of Sopwell hall[
*1673:
*1674: John Pyke or Pike
*1675: Richard Moore of Clonmel]
James II, 1685–1689
*1686: Anthony Maude
*1687: Isaac Walden[
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William III, 1689–1702
*1689:
*1695:
*1696: Humphrey Minchin of Ballinakill
Anne, 1702–1714
*1702:
*1703: Kingsmill Pennefather of New Park
George I, 1714–1727
*1714:
*1717: John Carleton of Darling Hill
George II, 1727–1760
*1727:
*1729: Robert Marshall
*1731: Lovelace Taylor of Noan and Ballinure
George III, 1760–1820
*1760:
*1764: William Barker
George IV, 1820–1830
*1820: Sir Arthur Carden, 2nd Bt
William IV, 1830–1837
*1830: John Trant
*1831:
*1832: Stephen Moore
Victoria, 1837–1901
*1837:
*1838: Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie
*1840: Henry Sadleir Prittie
*1841: Thomas Edmund LalorRichard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore
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Background
Donoughmore was the son of John Hely-Hutchins ...
*1848: Richard Pennefather of Knockevan, Clonmel
*1849: Sir John Cravan Carden, 4th Bt of the Priory
*1850: Lieutenant-Colonel Wray Palliser of Derryluskan
*1851: George RyanSir William Osborne, 13th Baronet
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The Osborne baronetcy, of Kiveton in the County of York, was created ...
, Beechwood
*1862: Charles Clarke of Graiguenoe ParkInch
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*1882: Sir John Craven Carden, 5th Bt.
*1883: Hon. Henry O'Callaghan PrittieWilliam Godfrey Dunham Massy
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Early life
He was born the eldest son of Major Henry William Massy (1816–1895) of Grantstown and Gonmaine, Coun ...
Edward VII, 1901–1910
*1901: Charles Edward Tuthill
George V, 1910–1922
*1911: Robert Joseph Cooke
Notes
† Died in office
References
{{High Shrievalties
Tipperary
History of County Tipperary