The High Sheriff of Antrim is the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Antrim

County Antrim

County Antrim is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,844 km², with a population of approximately 616,000...

. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff

High Sheriff

A high sheriff is, or was, a law enforcement officer in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.In England and Wales, the office is unpaid and partly ceremonial, appointed by the Crown through a warrant from the Privy Council. In Cornwall, the High Sheriff is appointed by the Duke of...

 became annually appointed from the Provisions of Oxford

Provisions of Oxford

The Provisions of Oxford are often regarded as England's first written constitution ....

 in 1258. Besides his judicial importance, he has ceremonial and administrative functions and executes High Court Writs.

History

The first (High) Shrivalties were established before the Norman Conquest in 1066 and date back to Saxon times. 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. Despite however that the office retains his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.

While the office of High Sheriff ceased to exist in those Irish counties, which had formed the Irish Free State

Irish Free State

The Irish Free State was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand...

 in 1922, it is still present in the counties of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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James I, 1603–1625

• 1603: Thomas Pavell
• 1613: Hugh Clotworthy
• 1618: Sir Hugh Clotworthy
• 1622: Sir Hugh Clotworthy

Charles I, 1625–1649

• 1625: Moses Hill
• 1626: Neal Oge O'Neill
• 1627: Cormick O'Hara
• 1628: William Houston
• 1629: Alexander MacDonnell
• 1630: Robert Adair
• 1631: Arthur O'Neill
• 1632: Alexander Stuart
• 1633: John Donaldson
• 1634: Arthur Hill
• 1635: Edward Maxwell
• 1636: John Dalway

English Interregnum, 1649–1660

• 1656: Roger Lyndon
• 1659: John Upton

Charles II, 1660–1685

• 1660: John Shaw
• 1661: Hercules Longford
• 1662: Alexander Dalway
• 1663: Thomas Warrin
• 1664: Richard Dobbs
• 1665: John Donaldson
• 1666: Anthony Horsman
• 1667: Francis Stafford
• 1668: Patrick Agnew
• 1669: Archibald Edmonston
• 1670: Sir Robert Colville
• 1671: George Maccartney
• 1672: William Upton

• 1673: Thadeus O'Hara
• 1674: John Galland
• 1675: Randall Bryce
• 1676: William Huston
• 1677: William Lesley
• 1678: Edward Harrison
• 1679: Henry Spencer
• 1680: Randall Smith
• 1681: George Macartney
• 1682: John Bickerstaffe
• 1683: John Bickerstaffe † / succeeded by Charles Stuart
• 1684: Henry Davys

James II, 1685–1688

• 1685: Thomas Knox
• 1686: Cormick O'Neill

• 1687: Cormick O'Neill
• 1688: Shane O'Neill

William III, 1689–1702

• 1689: Shane O'Neill
• 1690: Isaac MacCartney
• 1691: Thomas Smith
• 1692: Thomas Smith
• 1693: William Shaw
• 1694: Richard Dobbs
• 1695: Clotworthy Upton

• 1696: Sir Robert Adair
• 1697: Michael Harrison
• 1698: Edmond Ellis
• 1699: Andrew Clements
• 1700: John O'Neill
• 1701: John Davys

Anne, 1702–1714

• 1702: Benjamin Galland
• 1703: Charles O'Neill
• 1704: Brent Spencer
• 1705: John Davys
• 1706: Westerna Warring
• 1707: Edward Clements

• 1708: Benjamin Galland
• 1709: Arthur Davys
• 1710: William Shaw
• 1711: Andrew Clements
• 1712: Westerna Warring
• 1713: Brent Spencer

George I, 1714–1727

• 1714: Robert Green
• 1715: Edmund T. Stafford
• 1716: Edward Clements
• 1717: James Hamilton
• 1718: William Moore
• 1719: Hercules Upton
• 1720: Arthur Dobbs
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• 1721: Francis Clements
• 1722: Henry O'Hara
• 1723: William Johnston
• 1724: Ezekiel William Crombie
• 1725: Ezekiel Davys Wiilson
• 1726: Sir Robert Adair

George II, 1727–1760

• 1727: Rowley Hill
• 1728: John Skeffington
• 1729: Charles O'Neill
• 1730: Valentine Jones
• 1731: Alexander Stuart
• 1732: John Moore
• 1733: Hector McNeill
• 1734: Hugh Boyd
• 1735: John Houston
• 1736: Clotworthy O'Neill
• 1737: Hill Wilson
• 1738: Edward Smith
• 1739: Davys Wilson
• 1740: William Boyd
• 1741: Conway Spencer
• 1742: Felix O'Neill
• 1743: George Macartney

• 1744: William Agnew
• 1745: Charles MacDaniel
• 1746: John Cuppage
• 1747: Edmund MacNaghten
• 1748: Edward Brice
• 1749: Roger MacNeill
• 1750: Roger Moore
• 1751: John Dunkin
• 1752: Conway Richard Dobbs
• 1753: Robert Adair
• 1754: Bernard O'Neill
• 1755: John Rowan
• 1756: John MacNaghten
• 1757: Arthur Upton
• 1758: Charles O'Hara
• 1759: James Leslie

George III, 1760–1820

• 1760: Richard Magennis
• 1761: Alexander Boyd
• 1762: Alexander Stuart
• 1763: John Henry
• 1764: Rowley Heylands
• 1765: Charles Hamilton
• 1766: Alexander MacAuley
• 1767: Sampson Moore
• 1768: Thomas Thomson
• 1769: Bryan MacManus
• 1770: Alexander Legge
• 1771: Randal William MacDonnell, Viscount Dunluce
• 1772: John O'Neill
• 1773: Hugh Boyd
• 1774: St John O'Neill
• 1775: Robert Morris Jones † / succeeded by Samuel Bristow
• 1776: Ezekiel Davies Boyd
• 1777: William Dunkin
• 1778: William Moore
• 1779: Robert Rowan
• 1780: William Legge
• 1781: Bartholomew MacNaghten
• 1782: Alexander MacManus
• 1783: John Brown
• 1784: John Crombie
• 1785: Henry O'Hara
• 1786: John Allen
• 1787: Robert Gage
• 1788: Henry W. Shaw
• 1789: Charles Crymble

• 1790: Samuel Allen
• 1791: Richard Gervais Kerr
• 1792: Hugh Boyd
• 1793: Edmund Alexander Macnaghten
• 1794: Roger Moore
• 1795: Stewart Banks
• 1796: James Watson
• 1797: Hon. Chichester Skeffington
• 1798: James Stewart Moore
• 1799: James Leslie
• 1800: George A. MacCleverty
• 1801: Thomas Benjamin Adair
• 1802: Langford Heylands
• 1803: Edward Jones-Agnew
• 1804: Hugh Montgomery
• 1805: Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Bt
• 1806: Hon. John Bruce O'Neill
• 1807: Francis MacNaghten
• 1808: William Moore
• 1809: Stephen Moore
• 1810: Ezekiel Boyd
• 1811: James Caulfield
• 1812: John Campbell
• 1813: George Bristow
• 1814: John Rowan
• 1815: James Agnew Farrell
• 1816: Robert Thompson
• 1817: Samuel Thompson
• 1818: Hon. Thomas Henry Skeffington
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  Thomas Henry Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard , styled The Honourable from 1790 until 1821, was an Irish peer and politician-Background:...
  
  
• 1819: John Montgomery

George IV, 1820–1830

• 1820: Edmund MacDonald
• 1821: John Cromie
• 1822: Hon. Hercules Rowley Pakenham
• 1823: William Wallace Legge
• 1824: Francis Turnley

• 1825: George Hutchinson of Ballymoney
• 1826: Alexander MacManus
• 1827: John MacCance
• 1828: Cunningham Gregg
• 1829: Nicholas de la Cherois-Crommelin

William IV, 1830–1837

• 1830: Richard Magennis
• 1831: George H. Macartney
• 1832: Alexander McNeill
• 1833: Charles O'Hara

• 1834: David Kerr
• 1835: Hugh Leckey of Beardiville
• 1836: Edward Bruce

Victoria, 1837–1901

• 1837: Edmund C. MacNaghten
• 1838: James Owens
• 1839: James Agnew
• 1840: T. Gregg
• 1841: Conway Richard Dobbs
• 1842: Alexander Henry Haliday
  Alexander Henry Haliday
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• 1843: John MacNeill
• 1844: John MacGildowney
• 1845: John White
• 1846: Thomas M. Jones
• 1847: William Moore
• 1848: Charles MacGarel
• 1849: James Stewart Moore
• 1850: Alexander Montgomery
• 1851: James Thomson Tennant
• 1852: Robert Smyth
• 1853: Robert Shafto Adair
• 1854: James Edmund Leslie
• 1855: Ambrose O'Rorke
• 1856: Robert Grimshaw
• 1857: David Stewart Ker
• 1858:
• 1859: George Gray
• 1860: Henry Hugh McNeile
• 1861: Henry H. H. O'Hara
• 1862: Frederick Hugh Henry
• 1863: John Young
• 1864:
• 1865:
• 1866: William Thomas Bristow Lyons
• 1867: Robert James Montgomery
• 1868: Richard Henry Magenis

• 1869: William Coates
• 1870: Robert James Montgomery
• 1871: Henry Adair
• 1872:
• 1873: James Chaine
  James Chaine
  James Chaine was an Irish shipping businessman and a Conservative Party politician from County Antrim.The son of James Chaine of Ballycraigy and his wife Maria née Whittle from Antrim, he was educated in Blackheath and in 1863 he married Henrietta Creery from Newcastle, County Down.Chaine was...
  
  
• 1874: Thomas Casement
• 1875: Robert Jackson Alexander
• 1876: Sir Charles Lanyon
  Charles Lanyon
  Sir Charles Lanyon DL, JP was an English architect of the 19th century. His work is most closely associated with Belfast, Northern Ireland.-Biography:Lanyon was born in Eastbourne, Sussex in 1813...
  
  
• 1877: Sir Francis Edmund Workman-Macnaghten, 3rd Bt
• 1878: James Owens
• 1879: Edmund McNeill
• 1880: James Stewart-Moore
• 1881: John Casement
• 1882:
• 1883: Ogilvie Blair Graham
• 1884: Anthony Traill
  Anthony Traill (college provost)
  Anthony Traill was a provost of Trinity College Dublin.Born at Ballylough, in County Antrim, Anthony Traill matriculated at Trinity College Dublin...
  
  
• 1885: Thomas Montgomery
• 1886: Samuel Allen
• 1887: Henry Cole Magenis
• 1888: Montagu William Edward Dobbs
• 1889: James Sinclair Cramsie
• 1890: William Moore
• 1891: James Macaulay
• 1892: George Edmondstone Kirk
• 1893: Victor Coates of Rathmore, Dunmurry
• 1894:
• 1895: Harold William Stannus Gray
  Harold Stannus Gray
  Sir Harold William Stannus Gray, KBE was an Anglo-Irish landowner, horse breeder and politician. He served a brief period as a Member of Parliament during which he pressed for more help for agriculture....
  
  
• 1896:
• 1897: Sir William Quartus Ewart, 2nd Bt
• 1898: William James Pirrie
  William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie
  William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, KP, PC was a leading Irish shipbuilder and businessman. He was chairman of Harland and Wolff, shipbuilders, between 1895 and 1924, and also served as Lord Mayor of Belfast between 1896 and 1898...
  
  
• 1899: Hugh Houston Smiley
• 1900: George Johnston Preston

Edward VII, 1901–1910

• 1901: Robert Henry Sturrock Reade
• 1902: William Chaine
• 1903: Thomas Hugh Torrens
• 1904: William Henry Holmes Lyons
• 1905:

• 1906: Hercules Arthur Pakenham
• 1907: James Graham Leslie
  James Graham Leslie
  James Graham Leslie was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Leslie studied at Gray's Inn and briefly went into the law, before joining the Contract Department of the British Foreign Office. In 1907, he served as High Sheriff of Antrim. He resigned when given control of his family estates,...
  
  
• 1908: Sir William Grey Ellison-Macartney
  William Ellison-Macartney
  Sir William Grey Ellison-Macartney, KCMG was a British politician, who also served as the Governor of the Australian states of Tasmania and Western Australia.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1909: Archibald Edward Dobbs
• 1910: John Alexander Montgomery

George V, 1910–1936

• 1911: Robert Peel Dawson Spencer Chichester
• 1912: Sir Thomas James Dixon, 2nd Bt
  Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Thomas James Dixon, 2nd Baronet PC , was a Northern Ireland politician.Dixon was the eldest son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of Belfast. He succeeded his father as second Baronet in 1907. Dixon was a Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1924 to 1950 and was admitted to...
  
  
• 1913: Edward Johnson Charley
• 1914:
• 1915:
• 1916: Sir William Thompson Adair
• 1917: John Johnston Kirkpatrick
• 1918:
• 1919:
• 1920:
• 1921: Arthur Frederick Dobbs
  Arthur Frederick Dobbs
  Arthur Frederick Dobbs was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born at Castle Dobbs, County Antrim, Dobbs studied at Wellington College, Berkshire, and King's College, Cambridge. During World War I, he served as a Major with the Howitzer Battery. In 1921, he served as High Sheriff of Antrim...
  
  
• 1922: Charles Lewis MacKean
• 1923: Sir Francis Alexander Macnaghten, 8th Bt

• 1924: Thomas Kelly Evans Johnston
• 1925: James Love McFerran
• 1926: James Young
• 1927: Robert Arthur Alexander
• 1928: St Clair Mulholland Dobbs
• 1929: William Stewart Traill
• 1930: Hugh Lecky
• 1931: Sir William Frederick Coates, 1st Bt
  Sir William Coates, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Frederick Coates, 1st Baronet was an Irish stockbroker and politician in Belfast.Coates was born in Belfast and studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He initially entered the linen trade, but became a stockbroker in 1887, building up an extensive business. In 1902 he...
  
  
• 1932: Sydney James Lyle
• 1933: Arthur O'Neill Cubitt Chichester
• 1934: Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Bt
  Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan
  Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan PC , known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland....
  
  
• 1935: Godfrey William Ferguson
• 1936: John Alexander James Montgomery

George VI, 1936–1952

• 1937: James Stewart Moore
• 1938: Robert Christopher Alexander
• 1939: Anthony O'Brien Traill
• 1940: Sir George Ernest Clark, 2nd Bt
  Sir George Clark, 2nd Baronet
  Sir George Ernest Clark DL, 2nd Baronet was the son of Sir George Clark, 1st Baronet of Dunlambert, Belfast. Sir George was educated at Cambridge and was a naval architect...
  
  
• 1941: David Cecil Lindsay
• 1942: John Dermot Campbell
  John Dermot Campbell
  John Dermot Campbell DL was a Northern Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament in both United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Parliaments. He was killed during World War II in a plane crash....
  
  
• 1943: Sydney Adam McNeill
• 1944: William Samson Moore

• 1945: William Litton Rowland De Burgh Young
• 1946: Arthur Cochran Herdman
• 1947: Henry Adair Allen
• 1948: Edward Stanley Clarke
• 1949: Archibald Gordon Edward Turnley
• 1950: Alexander James Henry Cramsie
• 1951: Francis Casement

Elizabeth II, 1952–present

• 1952: Hugh Cameron McGildowney
• 1953: Hon. Terence Marne O'Neill
• 1954: Sir George Anthony Clark, 3rd Bt
  Sir George Clark, 3rd Baronet
  Sir George Anthony Clark, 3rd Baronet DL was an Orangeman and unionist politician in Northern Ireland....
  
  
• 1955: Samuel Gillmor Haughton
• 1956: Robert Henry Reade
• 1957: George Burrell MacKean
• 1958: Hon. Phelim Robert Hugh O'Neill
  Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan
  Phelim Robert Hugh O’Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan PC , was a politician in Northern Ireland and a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords....
  
  
• 1959: Ralph Pethebridge Martin
• 1960: John William Frazer
• 1961: Martin Edward Harcourt Mulholland
• 1962: Redmond Rochfort Young
• 1963: John Young
• 1964: William Roger Clothworthy Moore
• 1965: Robert Simpson Hanson
• 1966: Sir Antony MacNaghten, 10th Bt
• 1967: James Francis Leslie
• 1968: John O'Neill McClintock
• 1969: Sir Robert George Caldwell Kinahan
  Robin Kinahan
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• 1970: Hugh James Montgomery
• 1971: Charles Henry Grierson Kinahan
• 1972: Anthony Kenneth Frazer
• 1973: Victor Alexander Cooke
  Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh
  Victor Alexander Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, OBE, DL was a politician in Northern Ireland.The son of Victor and Alice Cooke, he was educated in Marlborough College and graduated from Trinity College in Cambridge with a Master of Arts in mechanical science...
  
  
• 1974: Arthur Henry Bates
• 1975: Frank Bryan Savage Maclaran
• 1976: Sir William Ivan Cecil Ewart, 6th Bt
  Ivan Ewart
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• 1977: Josias Cunningham Junior
• 1978: William Hunter Robert Charley
• 1979: William Denis Grenville Mackie
• 1980: Richard Severn Traill

• 1981: John Michael Ross
• 1982: William David Boyle Vandeleur
• 1983: Hon. Thomas Robin Valerian Dixon
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• 1984: J. P. Cooke
• 1985: P. C. D. Campbell
• 1986:
• 1987:
• 1988:
• 1989: Sandy Cramsie
• 1990:
• 1991: M. D. Stewart-Moore
• 1992: Richard G. Reade
• 1993: P. D. Cooke
• 1994: Andrew David Frazer
• 1995: John H. H. Stewart
• 1996: Daniel de Burgh Kinahan
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• 1997: Richard Francis Andrew Dobbs
• 1998: Ronald Conway
• 1999: Pamela Traill
• 2000: Patricia Elise MacCarthy-Morrogh
• 2001: John Weir Wallace
• 2002: Hon. Michael John Alexander Cooke
• 2003: Hugh Edward John Montgomery
• 2004: Sheelagh Elizabeth Hillan
• 2005: David John Reade
• 2006: James Seymour Leslie
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  James Seymour Leslie was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Singida, Tanzania, Leslie read law and land economy at Queens' College, Cambridge, before becoming a merchant banker...
  
  
• 2007: Joseph Wilson
• 2008: Lady Juliet C. Frazer
• 2009: Nigel Dobbs
• 2010: Steven Montgomery