The Sheriff of Renfrew and Argyll was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in
Renfrew and
Argyll
Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.
Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...
, 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 sheriffdom of Renfrew was combined with the
sheriffdom of Bute in 1871, creating the new position of Sheriff of Bute and Renfrew It was merged in 1946 with the
sheriffdom of Argyll instead, creating the position of Sheriff of Renfrew and Argyll. That sheriffdom was in turn dissolved in 1975 to be replaced by the current sheriffdom of
North Strathclyde.
Sheriffs of Renfrew
* Sir William Semple, 1471–
* Thomas Sempill (killed 1488)
[
* John Sempill, 1st Lord Sempill (1489) (killed 1513) ][
* William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill (1515) (died 1552) ][
* ]Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill
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(died 1576) [
* John Sempill, 1st of Beltrees (died 1579)
* James Sempill, 2nd of Beltrees (died 1626)][
* Alexander, Earl of Eglinton, 1636- (died 1661) ][
* Francis Sempill
* Earls of Eglinton, –1748][
;Sheriffs-Depute
* Charles Macdonald of Crichen, 1748- ][
* Charles McDowall, c.1786
* Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank of Kirknewton, 1788–1796
* John Connel, 1796–c.1814
* John Colin Dunlop, 1816–1842
* Hercules Robertson, 1842–1853
* Robert MacFarlane, 1853–1862
* Patrick Fraser, 1864–1871
]
Sheriffs of Renfrew and Bute (1871)
* Henry James Moncrieff, 1881-1888
* Sir Charles Pearson, 1888–1889Sheriff of Perth
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, 1889–90)
* Sir John Cheyne, 1889–1907[
* Neil John Downie Kennedy, 1907–1912][
*Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, January–July 1917 ( Sheriff of Lanark, 1917)][
* David Anderson, 1917–1918]Charles Murray Charles Murray may refer to:
Politicians
*Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore (1661–1710), British peer
*Charles Murray (author and diplomat) (1806–1895), British author and diplomat
*Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907), Scotti ...
, 1918–1918[
]
Sheriffs of Renfrew and Argyll (1946)
* Thomas Murray-Taylor, 1946–1948 [ (]Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles
The Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in The Lothians and Peebles, Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. ...
, 1960)
* Ian Shearer, Lord Avonside, QC, 1960–1962 Alexander Thomson
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, 1962–1964
* William Robertson Grieve, Lord Grieve, QC, 1964–1972
See also
* Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms
A sheriffdom is a judicial district of Scotland. Originally identical to the Shires of Scotland, from the eighteenth century many counties were grouped to form "sheriffdoms".
By 1975 there were 12 sheriffdoms, with only Lanarkshire not groupe ...
References
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