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Sheriff of County Dublin

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The Sheriff of County Dublin was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Dublin. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the Sheriff became an annual appointment following the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Besides his judicial importance, the sheriff had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.

The first Shrievalties were established before the Norman Conquest of England 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 Sheriff's precedence. Despite however that the holder of the office retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.

Sheriffs of County Dublin

  • 1456 Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth
  • 1556: James Luttrell
  • 1560: Sir Christopher Barnewall
  • 1565: Christopher Fagan
  • 1569: Robert Bice
  • 1575: Richard Fagan
  • 1655: William Coddington
  • 1655: Sir Daniel Bellingham, 1st Baronet
  • 1684: Sir Richard Bellingham, 2nd Baronet
  • 1691: John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen
  • 1695: Dixie Coddington
  • 1713: Clement Barry
  • 1721: John Falkiner
  • 1726: Richard Essington of Clonee, Co. Meath, and Tubber, Co. Dublin
  • 1733: William Ussher
  • 1743: Mark Synott
  • 1746: John Gore Booth
  • 1755: Edward Maunsell
  • 1760: Sir Simon Bradstreet, 2nd Baronet
  • 1762: Sir Henry Echlin, 3rd Baronet
  • 1773: Sir George Ribton, 2nd Baronet
  • 1776: (Sir) Patrick King
  • 1777: Sir Michael Cromie, 1st Baronet of Stacombrie
  • 1781: Sir John Stuart Hamilton, 1st Baronet of Dunamana
  • 1782: William Fortie, of Fortie's Grove
  • 1783: Somerville Pope Stephens, of Clondalkney
  • 1784: Henry Steevens Reily of Prussia St in the City of Dublin
  • 1785: William Holt of Cramlin
  • 1790: George Talbot, later Sir George Talbot, 3rd Baronet of Chart Park
  • 1794: (Sir) St George O'Kelly
  • 1795:
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