The Sheriff of Fife was historically the office responsible for enforcing
law and order in
Fife
Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...
, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice.
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.
Following a merger of the sheriffdoms, the office became the Sheriff of Fife and Kinross in 1881.
In 1975 the sheriffdom was largely merged into the new sheriffdom of
Tayside, Central and Fife
The Sheriff Principal of Tayside, Central and Fife is the head of the judicial system of the sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife, one of the six sheriffdoms covering the whole of Scotland. The sheriffdom employs a number of legally qualified ...
.
Sheriffs of Fife
*David de Wymess (c. 1170)
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Geoffrey de Inverkunglas (1213)
*John Hay of Naughton (1227-1228)
*Inghram de Balfour (1229)
*John Hay of Naughton (1233-1234)
*David de Wymess (1239)
*Ingram de Balliol (1240)
*David de Lochore (1264)
*Alexander Synton (1281)
*Hugh de Lochore (1289)
*Constantine de Lochore (1290)
*John de Valognes (1292)
*Hugh de Lochore (1293)
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David Barclay (1295)
*John de Valognes (1296)
*Duncan Balfour (-1298)
*John Balfour (1300)
*Constantine de Lochore (1304-1305)
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Richard Siward
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Origins
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(1305)
*David Barclay (1306)
*Michael Balfour (1314-1315)
*David Barclay (1328)
*Patrick de Polwarth (1332)
*John Balfour (1344)
*David de Wymess (1358-1360)
*William Disshington (1370)
*David de Barclay (1372)
*Alan Erskine (1388)
*George Leslie (1396)
*John Lumsden of Glengirnock (1424)
*Henry of Wardlaw - 1439 - Deputy
*Robert Livingston of Drumry (1449)
*Andrew Lundy (1452)
*Andrew Sibbald (1456)
*Alexander Kennedy (1464)
*Andrew Lundy (1452)
*John Balfour (1475)
*Andrew Lundin of Balgonie (1497-1512)
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George Leslie, Earl of Rothes (1529-1540)
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John Murray, 2nd Earl of Atholl (1660)
;Sheriffs-Depute
*1748–1761: Hon James Leslie of Mildeans
*1761–1780: James Dalgliesh of Scotscraig
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*1780–1799: Claud Irvine Boswell of Balmuto][
*1799–>1802: Neil Fergusson of Pitculle ][
*1807–1811: ]David Monypenny, Lord Pitmilly
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Life
He was born in May 1769 the son of Lt Col Alexander Monypenny of Pitmilly in Fife, and his wife Margaret Ch ...
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*1811–:John Anstruther ][
*1870–1881: James Arthur Crichton ]
Sheriffs of Kinross
*John de Kinross (1264)
*John de Kinross (1290)
*Alan de Vipont (1328)
*John de Crichton (1360)
*Alan Erskine (1364)
*Robert Halket (1373)
Sheriffs of Fife and Kinross (1881)
* 1881–1886: James Arthur Crichton [
* 1886–1901: Aeneas James George Mackay]Robert Tannahill Younger
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James Alexander Fleming
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Tayside, Central and Fife
The Sheriff Principal of Tayside, Central and Fife is the head of the judicial system of the sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife, one of the six sheriffdoms covering the whole of Scotland. The sheriffdom employs a number of legally qualified ...
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See also
* Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fife and Kinross
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Perth and Kinross
Sheriff
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