• Source: Sheriff of Aberdeen

      • The Sheriff of Aberdeen was a royal official who was responsible for enforcing justice in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputies, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
      In 1870 the sheriffdom was merged with that of Kincardineshire to create the post of Sheriff of Aberdeen and Kincardine. The combined sheriffdom then absorbed Banffshire in 1882 to create the post of Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff.
      This sheriffdom was abolished in 1975 and replaced by the current Sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands.


      Sheriffs of Aberdeen



      Philip de Melville, 1221
      William Prat, 1246
      Gregory de Melville, before 1263
      Andrew of Garioch, 1264
      William de Meldrum, 1290
      Henry de Latham, 1297
      John of Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, 1299–1300
      Alexander Comyn, 1303
      Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland, 1304–1305
      Alexander Comyn, 1305
      Norman Leslie, 1305
      Walter de Barclay, 1320–1324
      John Drimmmyng, 1325
      John Brown, 1328
      Robert III Keith, Marischal of Scotland, 1335
      John de Bonneville, 1337
      Andrew Fraser of Ewnysedale, 1342
      Robert III Keith, Marischal of Scotland, 1342-1343
      Alexander Fraser of Ewynesdale, 1343
      William de Meldrum, 1347–1358
      Phillip Dumbeck – 1348 – Deputy
      William de Lidell, 1358
      Walter Maule, 1364
      Alexander Fraser of Philorth, 1369–1399
      Phillip Dumbeck – 1369 – Deputy
      John Forbes, 1373
      Patrick of Crawford, 1381
      Thomas Norrie – 1389 – Deputy
      John Fraser of Forglen, 1382
      Alexander Fraser, 1391
      David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford, 1400–1408
      Walter Lindsay of Kinneff, 1417–1423
      Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Crawford, 1421–1439
      David Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Crawford, 1439–1445
      Alexander Forbes – 1440 – Deputy
      Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford, 1445–1453
      Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly, 1453
      Alexander Douglas- 1454 – Deputy
      Walter Lindsay of Kinblathmont, 1457
      Walter Lindsay of Bewford – 1459 – Deputy
      David Lindsay, 1st Duke of Montrose, 1461–1495
      John Ogston – 1467–1469 – Deputy
      Alexander Irvine of Drum – 1469 – Deputy
      Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford, 1474
      Alexander Bannerman – 1498 – Deputy
      John Lindsay, 6th Earl of Crawford
      William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll (died 1513)
      William Hay, 5th Earl of Erroll (died 1522)
      William Hay, 6th Earl of Erroll (died 1541)
      Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly (died 1524)
      Alexander Ogilvy of that ilk
      James Stewart, Earl of Moray
      David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford
      George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (died 1562)
      William Leslie, 9th of Balquhain
      George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (died 1576)
      John Leslie, 10th of Balquhain
      George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, -1630
      Sir George Johnston of that ilk, 1630–1631
      Sir Alexander Irvine of Drum, 1634–
      Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (died 1636)
      Sir Thomas Crombie of Kemnay
      Sir William Forbes of Craigievar
      William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal
      William Forbes, 11th Lord Forbes (died 1697)
      Sheriffs-depute
      William Forbes, 1728-
      Alexander Grant of Grantsfield 1741–
      David Dalrymple, Lord Westhall, 1748–1777
      Alexander Elphinstone of Glack, 1777–1795
      Alexander Moir, 1795-1822
      Andrew Murray, 1822-1847
      John Thomson Gordon, 1847–1848 (Sheriff of Edinburgh, 1848-)
      Archibald Davidson, 1848–1865 (Sheriff of Edinburgh, 1865–)
      Andrew Jameson, 1865–1870


      Sheriffs of Aberdeen and Kincardine (1870)


      Andrew Jameson, 1865–1870
      John Guthrie Smith, 1870–1882


      Sheriffs of Aberdeen and Kincardine and Banff (1882)


      John Guthrie Smith, 1882–1895
      Donald Crawford, 1895–1911
      John Campbell Lorimer, 1911–1920
      Alexander Logan McClure, 1920–1932
      (Sir) George Morton, 1932–1953
      James Walker, 1953–54
      Thomas Pringle McDonald, 1954–1969
      Interim appointment of Sheriff F.W.F. O'Brien, 1969–1971
      Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, 1971–1972
      George Stanley Gimson, 1972–1975 (Sheriff Principal of Grampian, Highland and Islands, 1975-1982)
      Sheriffdom abolished in 1975 and replaced by the sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands.


      See also


      Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms


      References



      Records of the Sheriff court of Aberdeenshire, ed. Littlejohn, D., Aberdeen 1904. pp.393-430

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