The High Sheriff of Mayo was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Mayo, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Mayo 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 Mayo unless stated otherwise.
High Sheriffs of County Mayo 1583: John Brown (1st High Sheriff) 1587–1589: John Brown (killed Mar 1589) 1639: Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Baronet< 1641: John Garvey 1655: Edward Ormsby of Tobervaddy Castle 1656: Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet 1662: Hon Sir Lucas Dillon 1662: Sir George Bingham, 2nd Baronet 1670: Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet 1678: Sir George Bingham, 2nd Baronet 1684: Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet 1690: George Browne 1694: Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet 1703: Egbert Miller of Milford 1708: Sir Arthur Shaen, 2nd Baronet 1711: Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet 1718: Francis Knox of Moyne AbbeyA genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland 1721: Sir John Bingham, 5th Baronet 1723: James Gildea of Gallagh and Port Royal 1731: John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont 1732–1733: Arthur Knox of Castle Rea Google Books 1735: Robert Miller of Milford Google Books 1737: John Bourke, 1st Baron Naas 1745: Thomas Lewin of Cloghans 1746: William Chambers of Kilboyne 1747: Sir George Browne, 6th Baronet 1748: 1750: Crosdaile Miller of Milford 1755: Roger Palmer, later Sir Roger Palmer, 1st Baronet of CastlelackenComplete Baronetage, p.390 1756: Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan 1756: Crosdaile Miller 1758: James Knox of Moyne Abbey 1762: Mathew Vaughan of Carramore 1763: John Knox of Castlerea (son of Arthur, HS 1733) 1765: Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran of the Arran Islands 1766: 1776: Neale O'Donnell, later Sir Neale O'Donnell, 1st Baronet of Newport 1778: John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine 1779: John Denis Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo 1781: Valentine Blake 1782: Charles Costello of Edmondstown 1783: John Ormsby of Gortnarabby 1784: George Jackson, the younger, of Prospect 1785: Charles Atkinson of Rehins 1786: Hon. Denis Browne of ClaremorrisThe House of Commons 1790–1820 1787: Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin 1788: John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine 1791: Sir John Edmond Browne, 1st Baronet 1796: Joseph Lambert of Brockhill 1798: Right Hon Denis Browne
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