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The High Sheriff of Tipperary was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Tipperary. Initially an office for a lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became annually appointed from the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Besides his judicial importance, he had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.




History


The first (High) Shrievalties 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 retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.
County Tipperary was a liberty administered by the Earls of Ormond, who thereby appointed the Sheriff, until it was extinguished as part of the second Duke's attainder for supporting the Jacobite rising of 1715. It then became a normal county under the direct control of the King.
In Tipperary and in four of the counties of the province of Connaught the office ceased to exist with the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.




High Sheriffs of Tipperary


1295: Walter le Bret
1318: John Pembroke
1405: James Butler
1605: Hon Thomas Butler
1610: Piers Butler fitzJames of Lismalin
1612: William St John of Skaddanston
1613: Thomas Cantwell
1614: Richard Butler of Knocktopher
1615: William O'Meary of Lisenoskey
1616: Daniel O'Bryen
1618: Gilbert Butler
1619: Robert Carew
1620: William St John
1625: William O'Meara




English Interregnum, 1649–1660






Charles II, 1660–1685






James II, 1685–1689


1686: Anthony Maude
1687: Isaac Walden




William III, 1689–1702






Anne, 1702–1714






George I, 1714–1727






George II, 1727–1760






George III, 1760–1820






George IV, 1820–1830






William IV, 1830–1837






Victoria, 1837–1901






Edward VII, 1901–1910






George V, 1910–1922






Notes


† Died in office




References

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