• Source: Sheriff of Stirling

      • The Sheriff of Stirling was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Stirling, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the hereditary sheriffs were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
      Following mergers of the Scottish sheriffdoms the office became the Sheriff of Stirling & Dumbarton in 1871 and the Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton & Clackmannan in 1881.
      The sheriffdom was dissolved in 1975 when the current sheriffdoms of North Strathclyde and Tayside, Central and Fife were created.


      Sheriffs of Stirling



      William Fitz Thorald (c.1130)
      Dufoter (1153)
      William de Stirling (1165)
      Gilbert de Stirling (1170)
      Alexander de Stirling (1189, 1195–1198, 1219)
      Muireadhach II, Earl of Menteith (1226)
      John de Stirling (1230)
      Bernard Fraser (1226-1233)
      Alexander de Stirling (1235)
      John de Stirling (1241)
      Gilbert Fraser (1258)
      John Lamberton (1265-1266)
      Patrick de Graham (1288-1289)
      Andrew Fraser (1291-1293)
      David Grant (1295-1296)
      Richard Waldgrave (1296)
      Alexander Livingstone (1304)
      William Bisset (1304-1305)
      Alexander Fraser (1328)
      Richard Lachlan - 1328 - Deputy
      Richard Lachlan (1329)
      Robert Erskine (1360)
      Andrew Murray (1367)
      Thomas Erskine (1367)
      Walter Oliphant (1368)
      Thomas, Earl of Mar (1368)
      Robert de Normanville (1373)
      John Stewart (1407)
      John Seton, 2nd Lord Seton (1436)
      Malcolm Fleming (1470)
      Alexander Bruce - 1470 - Deputy
      Janes Schaw of Sanchie (1473)
      Alexander Seton (1488)


      Sheriffs-Depute of Stirling and Clackmannan (1748)


      David Walker, 1748–1761
      Robert Bruce, 1761–1764
      George Cockburn (later Haldane), 1764–1770
      Alexander Abercromby, Lord Abercromby, 1770–1780
      John Pringle, 1780–1790
      William Tait, 1790–1797
      David Williamson, 1797–1807


      Sheriffs-Depute of Stirling (1807)


      1807 - Stirling separated from Clackmannan
      David Williamson, 1807–1811
      Ranald Macdonald of Staffa, 1811–1838
      John Shaw Stewart, 1839–1840
      Robert Handyside, 1840–1853
      Charles Baillie, 1853–1858
      George Moir, 1858–1868
      Robert Bogle Blackburn, 1868–1871


      Sheriffs of Stirling and Dumbarton (1871)


      Robert Bogle Blackburn, 1871–1875


      Sheriffs of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan (1881)


      James Muirhead, 1885–1889
      Alexander Blair, 1889–1891
      John Mckie Lees, 1891–1917
      James Robert Nicolson Macphail, 1917–1933
      Sir Archibald Campbell Black, 1933–1937 (Sheriff of Lanark, 1937)
      John Charles Fenton, 1937–1942 (Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles, 1942)
      Sir Robert Henry Maconochie, 1942–1961
      Francis Clifford Watt, QC, 1961–1971
      Robert Richardson Taylor, 1971–1975 (Sheriff Principal of Tayside, Central and Fife, 1975)
      In 1975 the sheriffdom was largely merged into the current sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife.


      See also


      Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms


      References

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