Sheriff of Banff
The Sheriff of Banff was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in Banff, Scotland.
Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite rising of 1745, the hereditary sheriffs were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
Following a merger of sheriffdoms it became the Sheriff of Banff, Elgin & Nairn in 1854 and the Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine & Banff in 1882.
Sheriffs of Banff
;Sheriffs-Principal- Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan
- Ranulf de Strachan
- John Comyn, Earl of Buchan
- Walter de Berkeley
- Duncan de Ferendraught
- Hamelin of Troup
- Phillip de Meldrum
- William de Fotheringham
- *Nicolas Hawden - 1357 - Deputy
- John de Inverpefer
- Alexander Ogilvie,
- *Walter Ogilvie of Beaufort - 1452 - Deputy
- Walter Ogilvie of Beaufort
- William Abernethy
- *Archibald Liddle - 1470 - Deputy
- James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan
- *Robert Stewart - 1470 - Deputy
- George Baird, 1634-
- Alexander Douglas 1654-
- James Erskine, 7th Earl of Buchan
- Sir James Baird of Auchmedden, c.1664
- James Baird the younger, 1668-?1681
- Sir George Gordon of Edinglassie, 1681-1691
- James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, 1693–?1730
- Robert Pringle, Lord Edgefield, 1748–1754
- George Cockburn, 1756–1764
- John Erskine, June 1764-September 1764
- Keith Urquhart of Meldrum and Bethelnie, 1764–1835
- Alexander Currie, 1837–1854
Sheriffs of Banff, Elgin and Nairn (1854)
- Benjamin Robert Bell, 1854–1882 Sheriffdom divided in 1882 between the sheriffdoms of Aberdeen, Kincardine & Banff and Inverness, Elgin and Nairn.