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

County Wicklow

County Wicklow 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 Wicklow, which derives from the Old Norse name Víkingalág or Wykynlo. Wicklow County Council is the local authority for the county...

, Ireland from Wicklow's formation in 1606 until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Wicklow 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 Wicklow unless stated otherwise.

High Sheriffs of County Wicklow

• 1650: William Coddington
• 1654: John Ponsonby
• 1660: Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bt
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• 1709: John Knox
• 1707: William Fownes, later Sir William Fownes, 1st Baronet
• 1713: Kendrick Fownes
• 1714: Thomas Ryves
• 1715: George Pendred
• 1726: William Smyth of Drumcree
• 1731: Thomas Eaton
• 1733: William Westby
• 1734: William Ryves
• 1736: John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough
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• 1749: Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow
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• 1756: Richard Baldwin of The Four Crosses
• 1764: John Ussher
• 1765: Isaac Simon
• 1781: Thomas Acton of West Aston
• 1783: Sir Francis Hutchinson, 1st Baronet of Castlesallagh
• 1786: Robert Hodson, later Sir Robert Hodson, 1st Baronet of Tuitestown
• 1805: Humphrey Loftus Bland
• 1812: Charles Tottenham (1768-1843) of Ballycurry and New Ross
• 1820: William Acton
• 1824: Robert Holt Truell, of Clomannin
• 1825: Sir Robert Arair Hodson, 2nd Baronet, of Hollybrook.
• 1827: William John Westbu, jnr of High Park, Hacketstown
• 1831: Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort
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• 1832: William Parsons Hoey of Dublin
• 1834: Sir George Frederick John Hodson, 3rd Baronet of Hollybrook
• 1836: John Henry Parnell

Victoria, 1837–1901

• 1837: Colonel Edward Symes Bayly of Ballyarthur
• 1842: Joseph Pratt Tynte of Tynte Park, Dunlavin
• 1844: Fitzwilliam Hume
• 1844: Francis Synge
• 1845: William W. Fitzwilliam Hume, of Humewood
• 1845: Charles Tottenham (1807-1886) of Ballycurry and New Ross
• 1847: Robert Craven Wade of Clonebraney
• 1849: Robert Archibald Gun-Cunningham, of Mountkennedy, Newtownmountkennedy
• 1850: Richard H. Brooke, of Castle Howard, Rathdrum
• 1857: Thomas Acton of West Aston
• 1862: Coote A. Carroll, Ashford.
• 1863: Phineas Riall of Old Conna Hill
• 1865: George Booth
• 1866: William Proby, 5th Earl of Carysfort
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• 1868: Robert Francis Ellis of Sea Park (now called Magherymore)
• 1870: O'Neill Segrave Talbot of Cabra House, Dublin
• 1873: Meade Caulfield Dennis
• 1874: Charles Stewart Parnell
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• 1877: Julius Casement
• 1880: Robert Howard-Brooke
• 1881: Col. Charles George Tottenham
• 1882: Charles William Barton
• 1886: Cornwallis Robert Ducarel Gun Cuninghame of Mount Kennedy
• 1888: Charles Robert Worsley Tottenham
• 1889: Lieut.-Col. D'Oyly Cade Battley of Belvedere Hall
• 1896: William Hume of Humewood
• 1897: Henry Cochrane, 1st Bt.
• 1898: Quintin Dick

Edward VII, 1901–1910

• 1904: William Henry Olphert of Ballinacor
• 1907: Roger Casement of Cronroe, Ashford
• 1910: Maurice Falkiner Dennis

George V, 1910–1936

• 1911: Stanley Herbert Cochrane, 1st Bt. of Corke Lodge
• 1913: Charles Annesley Acton
• 1915: Alfred Edward West
• 1921: Colonel Joseph Scott Moore