The High Sheriff of Kildare was the British Crown’s judicial representative in County Kildare

County Kildare

County Kildare is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare 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 Kildare County Sheriff. The High Sheriff

High Sheriff

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 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 Kildare unless stated otherwise.

High Sheriffs of County Kildare

• 1641: Sir Erasmus Borrowes, 1st Baronet
• 1662: Richard Tighe of Woodstock
• 1667: Edward Bagot
• 1671: Garret Wellesley
• 1673: Sir Walter Borrowes, 2nd Baronet
• 1687-1688: John Wogan
• 1697: Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet
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• 1707: Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Baronet
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• 1712: Thomas de Burgh
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• 1727: John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough
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• 1731: Edmund Armstrong
• 1751: Sir Kildare Dixon Borrowes, 5th Baronet
• 1761: Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Baronet
• 1763: Henry Boyle Carter
• 1772: William Robert FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster
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• 1788: Richard Griffith of Millicent House
• 1780: Thomas Carter
• 1791: Arthur Burdett
• 1795: Sir Fenton Aylmer, 7th Baronet
• 1809: Sir Erasmus Dixon Borrowes, 6th Baronet
• 1817: William Henry Carter
• 1818: Sir (Josiah) William Hort, 2nd Baronet
• 1824: Captain George Burdatt of Loughtown House
• 1827: Sir Gerald George Aylmer, 8th Baronet
• 1833: The Honorable George Francis Collet of Rathangan
• 1834: John Michael Henry Fock, 3rd Baron de Robeck
• 1835: John Bonham
• 1838: Edward Lawless, 3rd Baron Cloncurry
• 1839: Walter Hussey Burgh, of Donore, Naas
• 1840: Hugh Barton
• 1841: Richard Maunsell of Oakley Park
• 1849: Edward J. Beauman, of Furnace, Nass
• 1850: John Rowland Eustace
• 1854: Sir Gerald George Aylmer, 9th Baronet
• 1857: John Harvey Lewis
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• 1867: Valentine Lawless, 4th Baron Cloncurry
• 1868: John Maunsell of Oakley Park (son of Richard, HS in 1841)
• 1871: Montagu William Edward Dobbs
• 1873: Sir Erasmus Dixon Borrowes, 9th Baronet
• 1875: Charles Colley Palmer
• 1884: Thomas John Burgh
• 1885: George Woods Maunsell of Ashford, Co Limerick (son of Richard, HS in 1841)
• 1889: Marmaduke William Coghill Cramer-Roberts, of Sallymount
• 1890–1892: Mark Maunsell of Oakley Park.