High Sheriff of Carlow
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The High Sheriff of Carlow was the British Crown’s judicial representative in County Carlow
, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Carlow County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. All addresses are in County Carlow unless stated otherwise.
County Carlow
County Carlow is a county in Ireland. It is part of the South-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Carlow, which lies on the River Barrow. Carlow County Council is the local authority for the county...
, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Carlow County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. All addresses are in County Carlow unless stated otherwise.
High Sheriffs of County Carlow
- 1583: George Carew, 1st Earl of TotnesGeorge Carew, 1st Earl of TotnesGeorge Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes , known as Sir George Carew between 1586 and 1605 and as The Lord Carew between 1605 and 1626, served under Queen Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed President of Munster. -Early career:Carew was the son of Dr...
- 1612: Sir Thomas Butler, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet was an Irish nobleman, the illegitimate son of Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan and grandson of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond....
of Cloughgrenan - 1622: Sir Thomas Butler, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet was an Irish nobleman, the illegitimate son of Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan and grandson of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond....
of Cloughgrenan - 1650: Henry Prittie
- 1662: Thomas Burdett of Dunmore
- 1670: Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan , was an Irish baronet and politician.He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde. By 1650, he succeeded his father as baronet. In 1670 and again in 1691, Butler was High Sheriff of Carlow...
- 1686: William Brereton
- 1691: Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan , was an Irish baronet and politician.He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde. By 1650, he succeeded his father as baronet. In 1670 and again in 1691, Butler was High Sheriff of Carlow...
- 1701: Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Burdett, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.Born at Garrahill in County Carlow, he was the son of Thomas Burdett and his wife Catherine Kennedy, daughter of Sir Robert Kennedy, 1st Baronet...
of Garryhill - 1706: George Brereton
- 1724: Samuel Burton
- 1730: Robert Burton
- 1737: William Brereton
- 1751: George Brereton
- 1754: Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount WicklowRalph Howard, 1st Viscount WicklowHoward, Ralph, 1st Viscount Wicklow was an M.P. for County Wicklow and became Baron Clonmore of Clonmore Castle.-Biography:Ralph Howard was born at , Co. Wicklow, the eldest son of the Rt. Rev. Robert Howard , Bishop of Elphin. Howard was High Sheriff of Wicklow in 1749, and of County Carlow in...
- 1760: Benjamin Burton
George III, 1760–1820
- 1770: Clement Wolseley
- 1775: Benjamin Burton Doyne
- 1794: William Browne
- 1800: Edward Eustace of Castlemore
- 1802: John Bennett
- 1803: Henry Colclough
- 1810: Benjamin Disraeli of Bettyville House, Carlow (uncle of British PM)
- 1813: James Eustace of Castlemore
- 1813: Beauchamp Colclough
- 1816: Benjamin Burton
- 1818: Sir Thomas Butler, 8th Baronet
- 1819: John Dawson Duckett
George IV, 1820–1830
- 1820: Sir Charles Burton, 3rd Baronet
- 1821: William Richard Steuart
- 1822: William Fitzwilliam Burton
- 1824: John Alexander, jnr. of Milford,
- 1825: William Duckett
William IV, 1830–1837
- 1835: James Hardy Eustace of Hardymount and Castlemore
- 1836: Sir Richard Pierce Butler, 9th Baronet
Victoria, 1837–1901
- 1838: John George Brabazon Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough
- 1840: Horace William Noel Rochfort, of Clogrenane
- 1842: Hon. Somerset Richard Maxwell of Mountnugent
- 1844: Sir Robert Joshua Paul, 3rd Baronet of Paulville, Ballyglan
- 1845: Robert Stephen Doyne
- 1849: William Fitzwilliam Burton
- 1850: Beauchamp Bartholomew Newton
- 1851: Charles William Cuffe Burton, 5th Baronet
- 1852: Sir Clement Wolseley, 5th Baronet of Mount Wolseley
- 1853: Henry BruenHenry Bruen (1828–1912)Henry Bruen PC, DL was an Irish Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Carlow County from 1857 to 1880, taking his seat in the House of Commons of what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
- 1854: William Duckett
- 1856: John Newton
- 1857: Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, The MacMorrough
- 1859: William Clayton Browne-Clayton
- 1861: Sir John Richard Wolseley, 6th Baronet, of Castletown
- 1862: Hardy Eustace of Castlemore and Hardymount
- 1866: Sir Thomas Pierce Butler, 10th Baronet
- 1868: Robert Westley Hall-Dare
- 1869: Philip Charles Newton
- 1873: Steuart James Charles Duckett
- 1874: James Eustace of Newstown
- 1875: Charles Mervyn Doyne
- 1875: Peter George FitzGerald, 1st Baronet
- 1876: Thomas Kane McClintock-Bunbury, 2nd Baron Rathdonnell
- 1878: James Walter Milles Stopford, 6th Earl of Courtown
- 1879: Charles Edward Henry Duckett-Steuart
- 1880: John William McClintock-Bunbury
- 1886: Henry Bruen
- 1891: John Alexander of Milford House
- 1895: John James Hardy Rowland Eustace-Duckett of Castlemore and Hardymount
- 1896: Robert Westley Hall-Dare
- 1898: Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of BessboroughEdward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of BessboroughEdward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough, KP, CB, CVO was a British peer.-Biography:Ponsonby was the eldest son of Rev. Walter Ponsonby and his wife, Louisa, the daughter of Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans...
- 1899: Thomas Herbert RobertsonThomas Herbert RobertsonHerbert Robertson was a British barrister and Conservative politician.He was the only son of Thomas Storm Robertson, a physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Following education at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1872, he studied law...
- 1900: John Bonham
Edward VII, 1901–1910
- 1902: Dermot Henry Doyne
- 1904: Henry Philip Newton
- 1905: Sir Richard Pierce Butler, 11th Baronet
- 1909: Thomas Leopold McClintock-Bunbury, 3rd Baron Rathdonnell
- 1910: William Fitzwilliam Burton