Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway
The Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway, was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Sheriff of Dumfries had been retitled the Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway in 1874 after the sheriffdom of Wigton and Kirkcudbright had been joined with the sheriffdom of Dumfries. The combined sheriffdom was replaced in 1975 by the current sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.
Sheriffs of Dumfries
- Thomas Randolph
- Aymer Maxwell
- William St. Clair
- Robert de Joneby
- Richard Siward
- Matthew Redeman
- Dungal MacDouall
- Richard Edgar
- Peter Tilloil
- William Dacre, Baron Dacre
- Adomar de Atheles
- William Douglas
- Giles
- Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney
- Thomas Kirkpatrick
- William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness
- Patrick Maclellan of Bombie - Sheriff of Galloway
- Robert Crichton of Sanquhar
- Robert Crichton
- Successive Lord Crichtons of Sanquhar
- William Crichton, 1st Earl of Dumfries
- William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
- James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
- Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry
- William Kirkpatrick, 1747–1777?
- David Armstrong, 1777-1788?
- Edward Armstrong, 1788–1791?
- Robert Craigie, 1791–1811
- Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, 5th Baronet, 1811–1844
- Mark Napier, 1844-1874
Sheriffs of Dumfries and Galloway (1874)
- Mark Napier, 1874-?1879
- Norman MacPherson, 1880-1890
- David Boyle Hope, 1890–1890
- Richard Vary Campbell, 1890–1896
- James Wallace, 1896–1899
- Charles Joseph Galliari Rampini, 1899–1900
- James Alexander Fleming, 1900–1913
- David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans, 1913–1917
- Sir George Morton, 1917–1924
- Charles Herbert Brown, 1924–1927
- Patrick Balfour, Lord Kinross, 1927 - 1939
- Charles Milne, 1939–1960
- Margaret Henderson Kidd, QC, 1960–1966
- Alastair McPherson Johnston, 1966–1968
- David Brand, Lord Brand, 1968–1970
- Peter Maxwell, Lord Maxwell, 1970-1973
- Ian MacDonald, Lord Mayfield, MC, QC, 1973
- John Herbert McCluskey, 1973–1974
- W.I.R. Stewart, 1974Sheriffdom dissolved in 1975 and replaced by current sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.