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

County Wexford

County Wexford 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 Wexford. In pre-Norman times it was part of the Kingdom of Uí Cheinnselaig, whose capital was at Ferns. Wexford County Council is the local...

, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Irish Free State and replaced by the office of Wexford 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 Wexford unless stated otherwise.

High Sheriffs of County Wexford

• 1596: Leonard Colclough
• 1630: Sir Adam Colclough, 1st Baronet, of Tintern Abbey, Wexford
• 1678: Matthew Forde
• 1683: Patrick Lambert
• 1686: Robert Carew
• 1688: Patrick Colclough of Mohurry or Duffry Hall,
• 1701: John Chichester
• 1707: Richard Saunders
• 1728: John Richards of Solsborough
• 1738: Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran
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   of the Arran Islands
• 1739: John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough
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• 1741: Robert Doyne
• 1744: Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely
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• 1746: John Grogan, of Johnstown
• 1749: John Tottenham, later John Tottenham, 1st Baronet of Tottenham Green
• 1756: James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown
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• 1757: Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran
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   of the Arran Islands
• 1763: Edward Cookman
• 1764: John Devereux of Kilrush
• 1767: Vesey Colclough
• 1768: George Reade
• 1769: Adam Colclough
• 1753: Solomon Richards of Solsborough
• 1774: Sir John Freke, 1st Baronet of Castle Freke
• 1777: Robert Doyne
• 1783: Cornelius Grogan
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• 1788: William Hore
• 1789: William Bolton
• 1793: Walter Hore
• 1807: William Goff
• 1811: William Goff
• 1818: Solomon Richards of Solsborough
• 1824: John Goddard Richards of Owna Varra
• 1825: Robert Doyne of Wells
• 1827: Charles Tottenham, of Newross, Baronet
• 1828: Walter Hore-Ruthven of Harperstown
• 1829: Abel Ram of Ramsfort
• 1831: James Boyd, of Roslare House
• 1833: James Thomas Stopford, 4th Earl of Courtown of Gorey
• 1834: William Madden Glascott of Alderton House
• 1835: Robert Stephen Doyne
• 1845: Patrick W. Redmond, of Newtown
• 1846: Harry Alcock
• 1848: James George Henry Stopford, 5th Earl of Courtown
• 1849: James Power, of Edermine, Enniscorthy.
• 1850: Edward Westby Nunn of St. Margaret's, Wexford.
• 1851: Sir James Power of Edermine
• 1851–1854: Solomon Augustus Richards
• 1860: John Thomas Rossborough-Colclough of Tintern Abbey, Wexford
• 1864: Henry Patrick Lambert
• 1867: Francis Augustine Leigh, of Rosegarland,
• 1872: Robert Westley Hall-Dare
• 1873: Charles Mervyn Doyne
• 1874: Col. Charles George Tottenham
• 1875: John Manly Arbuthnot Keane, 3rd Baron Keane
• 1876: William Orme Foster
• 1877: James Walter Milles Stopford, 6th Earl of Courtown
• 1882: Sir George Frederick Brooke, 1st Baronet
• 1883: Henry Bruen
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• 1890: Arthur Henry Chichester, 3rd Baron Templemore
• 1891: Robert Westley Hall-Dare
• 1893: Walter MacMurrough Kavanagh
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• 1894: John Hyacinth Talbot
• 1900: Philip Clayton Alcock
• 1901: Sir George Errington, Bt. of Lackham House, Wiltshire
• 1906: Arthur William Mordaunt Richards
• 1908: Edward Carew Blacker
• 1909: Henry Bruen