Sheriff of Berwick
The Sheriff of Berwick was historically a royal official, who was responsible for enforcing justice in Berwickshire, 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 sheriffdom was merged into the new sheriffdom of Haddington and Berwick in 1856.
Sheriffs of Berwick
- Norman
- Walter de Lindsay
- Robert of Upsettlington
- Ingram de Balliol
- William de Lindsay
- David de Graham
- John Maxwell
- David de Graham
- Hugh de Berkeley
- John de Soulis
- William Lindsay
- Richard Fraser
- Osbert of Spaldington
- John de Burdon
- Edmund Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings
- John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter
- Hugh Gifford
- Robert Lauder
- John I Preston, Baron of Craigmillar
- Patrick Nesbit
- Walter de Halyburton
- John de Halyburton
- *Alexander Hume - Deputy
- Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre
- Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes
- Patrick Hepburn, 1st [Earl of Bothwell]
- Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell
- Alexander French, (son of [Adam French 8th Laird of Thornydykes)]
- Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont
- Alexander, Earl of Home
- Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont
- Alexander, Earl of Marchmont
- Adam French, 1584 - 1594
- George Ker, 1755–
- David Hume of Ninewells, 1783–1793
- John Swinton, 1793–1809
- David Douglas of Reston, 1809–1813
- William Boswell, <1819–1840
- Robert Bell 1841–1856
- ''For sheriffs after 1856 see Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick''