The High Sheriff of Wicklow was the British Crown's judicial representative in

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ga, Contae Chill Mhantáin ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is bordered by t ...

, Ireland from Wicklow's formation in 1606 until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Wicklow County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an

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made the

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the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. All addresses are in County Wicklow unless stated otherwise.

High Sheriffs of County Wicklow

*1650: William Coddington *1654: John Ponsonby *1656: William Coddington of Holm Patrick *1660: Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bt *1709: John Knox *1707: William Fownes *1713: Kendrick Fownes *1714: Thomas Ryves *1715: George Pendred *1726: William Smyth of Drumcree *1731: Thomas Eaton *1733: William Westby *1734: William Ryves *1735: George Pendred of Saunders Grove *1736:

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*1737: *1738: Joseph Chamney of Forge, Shillelagh *1739: *1743: Edward Chamney of Knocklow *1749:

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*1750: *1756: Richard Baldwin of The Four Crosses *1757: *1758: James Edwards of the Old Court *1759: *1764: John Ussher *1765: Isaac Simon *1766: *177n: William Westby of High Park *1772: George Carroll of DublinA Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke *1773: *1781: Thomas Acton of West Aston *1782: Hopton Scott of Billygannon *1783:

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of Castlesallagh *1784: The Hon. Richard Wingfield of Powerscourt *1785: Sir James Stratford Tynte, 1st Baronet of Dunlavin *1786: Robert Hodson, later Sir Robert Hodson, 1st Baronet of Tuitestown *1788: Morley Saunders of Saunders Grove *1789: Richard Hornidge of Tulfarris *1791: Arthur Knox of Woodstock *1804: Francis W. GreenePapers by Command-Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons-Volume 6 *1805: Humphrey Loftus Bland *1805: John Middleton Scott *1806: Edward Westley *1807: James Wall *1807: Edward Westby of High Park *1808: John Blashford *1809: John Knox of Castlerea and Woodstock *1810: George M. John Drought *1811: J. A. Eccles *1812: Charles Tottenham of Ballycurry and New Ross *1813: Robert Howard *1814: John Hornedge *1815: John Stratford Saunders *1816: Daniel Mills King *1817: Francis Hoey *1818: Robert Gunn *1819: John Synge *1820: William Acton *1821: Alexander Carroll of Mountjoy Sq., Dublin *1822: Robert Francis Saunders of Saunders Grove *1823: Thomas Hugo *1824: Robert Holt Truell, of Clomannin *1825: Sir Robert Arair Hodson, 2nd Baronet, of Hollybrook. *1827: William John Westby, jnr of High Park, Hacketstown *1827: Daniel Tighe of Rossanna *1829: Anbrose Upton Gledstanes *1831:

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*1832: William Parsons Hoey of Dublin"The Heraldic Calendar" *1834: Sir George Frederick John Hodson, 3rd Baronet of Hollybrook *1835: William Gilbert Kemmis of Ballinacor *1836:

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of Avondale, Rathdrum

Victoria, 1837–1901

Edward VII, 1901–1910

*1902: Henry Leslie-Ellis of Magherymore. *1904: William Henry Olphert Kemmis of Ballinacor. *1905: Humphrey Loftus Bland of Blandsfort, Queens County. *1906: Craven Henry Clotworthy Wade of Rockfield. *1907: Roger Casement of Cronroe,

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. *1909: Lambert John Dopping-Hepenstall of Altidore Castle. *1910: Maurice Falkiner Dennis.

George V, 1910–1936

*1911: Stanley Herbert Cochrane, 1st Baronet of Corke Lodge *1913: Charles Annesley Acton *1914: Mervyn Arthur Tynte of Tynte Park,

Dunlavin Dunlavin () is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland, situated about south-west of Dublin. It is centred on the junction of the R412 and R756 regional roads. It was founded around the end of the 17th century and became a prominent town in ...

. *1915: Alfred Edward West *1916: *1921: Colonel Joseph Scott Moore *1923: Sir Stanley Cochrane.

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Wicklow Wicklow ( ; ga, Cill Mhantáin , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; non, Víkingaló) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. It is located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island. According to the 2016 census, it has ...

History of County Wicklow