The Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway, was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in

Dumfries Dumfries ( ; sco, Dumfries; from gd, Dùn Phris ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth about by road from the ...

and Galloway, 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 Sheriff of Dumfries had been retitled the Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway in 1874 after the sheriffdom of Wigton and Kirkcudbright had been joined with the sheriffdom of Dumfries. The combined sheriffdom was replaced in 1975 by the current sheriffdom of

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Sheriffs of Dumfries

* Thomas Randolph (c.1230–) * Aymer Maxwell (1264–) *

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(1288–) * Robert de Joneby (1296–) *

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(1305–) (died 1311) * Matthew Redeman (1305) *

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(1310/1311) * Richard Edgar (1329) * Peter Tilloil (1334–) * William Dacre, Baron Dacre (1346-) * Adomar de Atheles * William Douglas (c.1387–) (died 1391) * Giles (Egidia) (daughter of above) (married Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney c.1407) (1391–1407) * Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney (c.1407–) (died 1420) * Thomas Kirkpatrick (1434) * William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (son of above) (-1455) *

Patrick Maclellan of Bombie Patrick Maclellan of Bombie (d. c. 1452) Sheriff of Galloway, then the head of his family, the Clan MacLellan, and a staunch royalist declined an invitation to join William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, along with the Earls of John of Islay, Earl o ...

- Sheriff of Galloway (died 1452) * Robert Crichton of Sanquhar (1452-) (died 1494) * Robert Crichton (son of above) (confirmed in office 1464, still in office 1508, died 1513) * Successive Lord Crichtons of Sanquhar *

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(died 1643) * William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry (confirmed 1664, died 1695) * James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry (died 1711) *

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(in office 1747, died 1778) ;Sheriffs-Depute * William Kirkpatrick, 1747–1777? (died 1778) * David Armstrong, 1777-1788? * Edward Armstrong, 1788–1791? * Robert Craigie, 1791–1811 * Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, 5th Baronet, 1811–1844 * Mark Napier, 1844-1874

Sheriffs of Dumfries and Galloway (1874)

* Mark Napier, 1874-?1879 (died 1879) * Norman MacPherson, 1880-1890 * David Boyle Hope, 1890–1890 ( Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk, 1890–1896) * Richard Vary Campbell, 1890–1896 (Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk, 1896) * James Wallace, 1896–1899 * Charles Joseph Galliari Rampini, 1899–1900 * James Alexander Fleming, 1900–1913 ( Sheriff of Fife and Kinross 1913-1926) *

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, 1913–1917 ( Sheriff of Renfrew and Argyll, 1917) * Sir George Morton, 1917–1924 (

Sheriff of Forfar The Sheriff of Angus (alternatively the Sheriff of Forfar) was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Angus, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms, was held on a hereditary ...

1924-1932) * Charles Herbert Brown, 1924–1927 ( Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles 1927-1937) * Patrick Balfour, Lord Kinross, 1927 - 1939 * Charles Milne, 1939–1960 * Margaret Henderson Kidd, QC, 1960–1966 ( Sheriff of Perth and Angus 1966–1974) * Alastair McPherson Johnston, 1966–1968 * David Brand, Lord Brand, 1968–1970 * Peter Maxwell, Lord Maxwell, 1970-1973 * Ian MacDonald, Lord Mayfield, MC, QC, 1973 * John Herbert McCluskey, 1973–1974 * W.I.R. Stewart, 1974 * ''Sheriffdom dissolved in 1975 and replaced by current sheriffdom of

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References

*Taylor, Alice; The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (2016). {{DEFAULTSORT:Dumfries and Galloway Sheriff courts

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Sheriffs of Dumfries

Sheriffs of Dumfries and Galloway (1874)

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