- Source: High Sheriff of Fermanagh
The High Sheriff of Fermanagh is the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Fermanagh. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became annually appointed from the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Besides his judicial importance, he has ceremonial and administrative functions and executes High Court Writs.
History
The first (High) Shrivalties were established before the Norman Conquest 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 High Sheriff's precedence. Despite however that the office retains his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.
While the office of High Sheriff ceased to exist in those Irish counties, which had formed the Irish Free State in 1922, it is still present in the counties of Northern Ireland.
High Sheriffs of County Fermanagh
= 17th century
== 18th century
== 19th century
== 20th century
== 21st century
=References
Sources
List of Fermanagh High Sheriffs 1606–1865
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- High Sheriff of Fermanagh
- John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence
- County Fermanagh
- Caldwell baronets
- John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough
- Lady Jane Dawnay
- Harold Armstrong
- James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn
- Hugh Montgomery (Northern Ireland politician)
- Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster
