The Sheriff of County Dublin (or (High) Sheriff of the County of Dublin) was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Dublin. Initially, an office for a lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the Sheriff became an annual appointment following the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. The first recorded Sheriff was Ralph Eure, appointed in that year. The next recorded Sheriff was Sir David de Offington, who was Sheriff in 1282. Besides his judicial importance, the sheriff had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.
The first Shrievalties were established before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and date back to Saxon times. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the Sheriff's precedence. Despite however that the holder of the office retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.
Sheriffs of County Dublin 1258: Ralph EureCalendar of Irish Chancery Letters c.1244-1509 1280: David de Callan 1282: Sir David de OffingtonBall F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926 1299: Rythery Fitzjohn 1343: Adam Talbot 1407: Walter Tyrrell 1409: Walter Tyrrell (second term) 1423: John Talbot 1425: Walter Tyrrell (third term) 1426: Robert de Holywood of Artane 1456: Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth 1465: James Blakeney 1556: James Luttrell 1560: Sir Christopher Barnewall 1565: Christopher Fagan 1569: Robert BiceThe General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Volume 1, Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Heritage Books 2007 1575: Richard Fagan 1609 Sir Thomas FitzWilliam 1618 Thomas Orpie 1639: Philip Hore 1642: Robert Bysse 1655: William Coddington 1655: Sir Daniel Bellingham, 1st Baronet 1684: Sir Richard Bellingham, 2nd Baronet 1691: John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen 1695: Dixie Coddington 1710: Richard Bolton of Brazeel 1713: Clement Barry 1716: Richard Bolton of Brazeel 1721: John Falkiner 1723: Edward Bolton 1726: Richard Essington of Clonee, Co. Meath, and Tubber, Co. Dublin 1733: William Ussher 1743: Mark Synott 1746: John Gore BoothComplete Baronetage,p.365 1755: Edward Maunsell 1760: Sir Simon Bradstreet, 2nd Baronet 1762: Sir Henry Echlin, 3rd BaronetComplete Baronetage, p.343 1763: Sir Edward Newenham 1773: Sir George Ribton, 2nd BaronetComplete Baronetage,p.364 1776: (Sir) Patrick King 1777: Sir Michael Cromie, 1st Baronet of StacombrieComplete Baronetage,p.386 1781: Sir John Stuart Hamilton, 1st Baronet of DunamanaComplete Baronetage,p.402 1782: William Fortie, of Fortie's Grove 1783: Somerville Pope Stephens, of Clondalkney 1784: Henry Steevens Reily of Prussia St in the City of Dublin 1785: William Holt of Cramlin 1787: Sir John Traill 1790: George Talbot, later Sir George Talbot, 3rd Baronet of Chart Park 1794: (Sir) St George O'KellyThe Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time Page 302
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