• Source: Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles

    • The Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in The Lothians and Peebles, Scotland. 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.
    The position of Sheriff of the Lothians had been created in 1881 following a merger of the sheriffdom of Midlothian and Haddington with the Linlithgow part of the sheriffdom of Linlithgow, Clackmannan & Kinross. The position of Sheriff of Peebles was then joined to it in 1883 to create the new position of Sheriff of the Lothians & Peebles.
    This latter sheriffdom was replaced in 1975 by the current sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders.


    Sherriffs of Lothian



    Alexander Fairlie of Braid, 1594


    Sheriffs of the Lothians (1881)




    Sheriffs of Peebles



    Gilbert Fraser, 1259
    Aymer de Maxwell, 1262
    Simon Fraser of Oliver, 1266-1291
    William of Durham, 1302
    Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, 1306
    Adam Lockhart, 1357
    Lawrence of Govan, 1359
    Thomas Hay, 1373
    Walter Tweedy, 1373 - Deputy
    William Hay, 1388
    Adam Dickson, 1388 - Deputy
    John Hay, 1st Lord Hay of Yester, 1464–1509
    David Hay, 1470
    Thomas Hay, 1470 - Deputy
    William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, 1724–1747
    James Veitch of Elliock, 1747–
    Sheriffs-Depute
    James Montgomery, 1748–?1760
    Alexander Murray of Murrayfield, 1761–1775
    James Wolf Murray, 1789–1811
    James Wedderburn, 1811–1816
    Andrew Clephane, 1816–>1825
    John Wood, c.1835–1840
    George Napier, 1840-1883


    Sheriffs of the Lothians and Peebles (1883)


    James Arthur Crichton, 1885–1891
    Alexander Blair, 1891–1896
    Andrew Rutherford, 1896–1904
    Charles Cornelius Maconochie, 1904–>1918
    Gerard Lake Crole, KC, –1927
    Charles Herbert Brown, KC, 1927–c.1937
    John Charles Fenton, 1942–1951
    James Albert Gilchrist, QC, 1953–
    William Ross McLean, QC, 1960–
    Gerald Paisley Sinclair Shaw, 1965–
    William James Bryden, 1973–1975 (Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders, 1975)
    After 1975 the sheriffdom was merged into the new sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders.


    See also


    Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms


    References

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