The High Sheriff of Wicklow was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Wicklow, Ireland from Wicklow's formation in 1606 until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Wicklow County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. All addresses are in County Wicklow unless stated otherwise.
High Sheriffs of County Wicklow
1650: William Coddington 1654: John Ponsonby 1656: William Coddington of Holm Patrick 1660: Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bt 1709: John Knox 1707: William FownesComplete Baronetage, p. 347 1713: Kendrick FownesComplete Baronetage, p. 348 1714: Thomas Ryves 1715: George Pendred 1726: William Smyth of Drumcree 1731: Thomas Eaton 1733: William Westby 1734: William Ryves 1735: George Pendred of Saunders Grove 1736: John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough 1737: 1738: Joseph Chamney of Forge, Shillelagh 1739: 1743: Edward Chamney of Knocklow 1749: Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow 1750: 1756: Richard Baldwin of The Four Crosses 1757: 1758: James Edwards of the Old Court 1759: 1764: John Ussher 1765: Isaac Simon 1766: Charles Powell Leslie of Tubber 177n: William Westby of High Park 1772: George Carroll of DublinA Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1912, Bernard Burke 1773: 1781: Thomas Acton of West Aston 1782: Hopton Scott of Billygannon 1783: Sir Francis Hutchinson, 1st Baronet of CastlesallaghComplete Baronetage, p.410 1784: The Hon. Richard Wingfield of Powerscourt 1785: Sir James Stratford Tynte, 1st Baronet of Dunlavin 1786: Robert Hodson, later Sir Robert Hodson, 1st Baronet of Tuitestown 1788: Morley Saunders of Saunders Grove 1789: Richard Hornidge of Tulfarris 1791: Arthur Knox of Woodstock 1804: Francis W. GreenePapers by Command-Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons-Volume 6 1805: Humphrey Loftus Bland 1805: John Middleton Scott 1806: Edward Westley 1807: James Wall 1807: Edward Westby of High Park 1808: John Blashford 1809: John Knox of Castlerea and Woodstock 1810: George M. John Drought 1811: J. A. Eccles 1812: Charles Tottenham of Ballycurry and New Ross 1813: Robert Howard 1814: John Hornedge 1815: John Stratford Saunders 1816: Daniel Mills King 1817: Francis Hoey 1818: Robert Gunn 1819: John Synge 1820: William Acton 1821: Alexander Carroll of Mountjoy Sq., Dublin 1822: Robert Francis Saunders of Saunders Grove 1823: Thomas Hugo 1824: Robert Holt Truell, of Clomannin 1825: Sir Robert Arair Hodson, 2nd Baronet, of Hollybrook. 1827: William John Westby, jnr of High Park, Hacketstown 1827: Daniel Tighe of Rossanna 1829: Anbrose Upton Gledstanes 1831: Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort 1832: William Parsons Hoey of Dublin"The Heraldic Calendar" 1834: Sir George Frederick John Hodson, 3rd Baronet of HollybrookComplete Baronetage, p. 428 1835: William Gilbert Kemmis of Ballinacor 1836: John Henry Parnell of Avondale, Rathdrum
Victoria, 1837–1901
Edward VII, 1901–1910 1902: Henry Leslie-Ellis of Magherymore. 1904: William Henry Olphert Kemmis of Ballinacor. 1905: Humphrey Loftus Bland of Blandsfort, Queens County. 1906: Craven Henry Clotworthy Wade of Rockfield. 1907: Roger Casement of Cronroe, Ashford. 1909: Lambert John Dopping-Hepenstall of Altidore Castle. 1910: Maurice Falkiner Dennis.
George V, 1910–1936 1911: Stanley Herbert Cochrane, 1st Baronet of Corke Lodge 1913: Charles Annesley Acton 1914: Mervyn Arthur Tynte of Tynte Park, Dunlavin. 1915: Alfred Edward West 1916: 1921: Colonel Joseph Scott Moore 1923: Sir Stanley Cochrane.
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