Sheriff of Berwick
The Sheriff of Berwick was historically a royal official, who was responsible for enforcing justice in Berwickshire, 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 was merged into the new sheriffdom of Haddington and Berwick in 1856.
Sheriffs of Berwick
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- Norman (1147)
- Walter de Lindsay (1206)
- Robert of Upsettlington (1220)
- Ingram de Balliol (1228)
- David de Graham (1236)
- John Maxwell
- David de Graham (1264)
- Hugh de Berkeley (1266)
- John de Soulis (1288)
- William Lindsay
- Richard Fraser
- Osbert of Spaldington (1295-1297)
- John de Bourdon (1300-1302)
- John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (1325)
- Hugh Gifford (1329)
- Robert Lauder (1330)
- Patrick Nesbit (1437)
- Walter de Halyburton
- John de Halyburton (1447)
- Alexander Hume (1447) - Deputy
- Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre (1450)
- Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes (1470)
- Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell (1480)
- Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell (1511)
- Patrick Hume, 1690–
- Sheriffs-Depute
- George Ker, 1755– [1] (first Sheriff-depute of modern era)
- David Hume of Ninewells, 1783–1793 [2] (Sheriff of Linlithgow, 1793–1811)
- John Swinton, 1793–1809 [3]
- David Douglas of Reston, 1809–1813 [4]
- William Boswell, <1819–1840
- Robert Bell 1841–1856[5] [6] (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1856)
- For sheriffs after 1856 see Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick
See also
References
- ^ Chalmers, George. Caledonia, Or an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North ..., Volume 2. p. 216.
- ^ "Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ Finance Accounts of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 286.
- ^ "Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. p. 851.
- ^ "Sheriff-Ship of East Lothian". Caledonian Mercury. 18 June 1856.
