The Sheriff of Elgin was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in
Elgin
Elgin may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Elgin County, Ontario
* Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Chatham-Kent, Ontario
* Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario ...
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Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
After a merger the sheriff became the Sheriff of Elgin and Nairn in 1747. After further mergers the sheriffdom became part of the
sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin & Nairn in 1854, part of the
sheriffdom of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn in 1882 and part of the
sheriffdom of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty in 1946.
Sheriffs of Elgin
*Alexander Douglas (1226-1235)
*Thomas Wiseman (1237-1249)
*Alexander de Montfort (1261)
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Reginald le Chen (1291-1297)
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Willam Wiseman (1304-1305)
*William de Strathbok (1337)
*William de Valognes (1362)
*Alexander Dunbar of Westfield (1446)
*Alexander Dunbar (1470)
*James Dunbar of Cumnock (c. 1497)
Sheriffs-Depute of Elgin and Nairn (1747)
*Sir George Abercromby, 4th Baronet, 1783–>1822
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Robert Cunningham Graham Spiers, 1835-1840 (
Sheriff of Edinburgh, 1840–1847)
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Cosmo Innes, 1840–1852
*Benjamin Robert Bell, –1854
(
Sheriff of Banff, Elgin and Nairn, 1854)
*''Sheriffdom merged in 1854 to form the
sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin and Nairn''
See also
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Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms
References
*Taylor, Alice; The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (2016).
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