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The High Sheriff of Tipperary was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Tipperary

County Tipperary

County Tipperary is a county of Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster and is named after the town of Tipperary. The area of the county does not have a single local authority; local government is split between two authorities. In North Tipperary, part of the Mid-West Region, local...

. 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 had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed 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 retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.

In Tipperary and in four of the counties of the province of Connacht

Connacht

Connacht , formerly anglicised as Connaught, is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the west of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for...

the office ceased to exist with the establishment of 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.

English Interregnum, 1649–1660

1657: Richard le Hunte
1658: Sir Thomas Stanley

Charles II, 1660–1685

1660:
1666: Thomas Sadleir
1672:

1673:
1674:
1675: Richard Moore
1676:
1684:

William III, 1689–1702

1689:
1695:

1696: Humphrey Minchin
1697:
1698: Thomas Moore
1701:

Anne, 1702–1714

1702:
1707:

1708:
1709: Sir William Parsons, 2nd Bt
1712: Matthew Pennefather
1713:

George I, 1714–1727

1714:
1717: John Carleton
1720:

1721:
1722: Guy Moore
1723:
1724: Richard Pennefather
1725:
1726: William Baker

George II, 1727–1760

1727:
1731: Lovelace Taylor
1732:
1733: John Minchin
1738: William Armstrong
1741: Sir Thomas Dancer, 4th Bt
1743:

1744: Richard Moore
1745:
1750: Kingsmill Pennefather
1753: John Bloomfield
1757: Stephen Moore
1758:
1759:

George III, 1760–1820

1760:
1764: William Barker
1765: Sir Thomas Maude, 2nd Bt
1768: Anthony Parker
1770: Henry Prittie
Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley
Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament.Prittie was the son Henry Prittie. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Banagher in 1767, a seat he held until 1768. He then represented Gowran from 1769 to 1776 and Tipperary from 1776 to 1790. Prittie was...
1772: Peter Holmes
1777: Richard Biggs
1778:
1779: Mark Lidwill
1783: James Ffogerty
1784: Stephen Moore
1785:
1786: Stephen Moore
1789: Daniel Mansergh

1790:
1793: John Bagwell
John Bagwell (1751–1816)
John Bagwell , was an MP for the pre-Union constituency of Tipperary and Colonel of the Tipperary Militia which he raised in 1793.-Family:...
1795: Peter Holmes
1797: John Carden
1798: Sir Thomas Judkin-FitzGerald, 1st Bt
Judkin-Fitzgerald Baronets
The Baronetcy of Lisheen, in the County of Tipperary, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 5 August 1801 for Col. Thomas Judkin-Fitzgerald , who had adopted the surname of Judkin in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle John Lapp Judkin, of Cashel...
1803: Thomas Going
1804: Henry Osborne
1805: William Hutchinson
1806: George Lidwill
1807: John Poe
1808: Henry Langley
1809: John Southcote Mansergh
1810: Dunbar Barton
1811: Benjamin Bagwell
1812: Thomas Prendergast
1813: William Quinn
1814: Fergus Langley
1815: Richard Creagh
1816: Pierce Archer Butler
1817: Vere Dawson Hunt
1818: Nathaniel Taylor
1819: Kingsmill Pennefather † / succeeded by Sir John Judkin-Fitzgerald, 2nd Bt
Judkin-Fitzgerald Baronets
The Baronetcy of Lisheen, in the County of Tipperary, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 5 August 1801 for Col. Thomas Judkin-Fitzgerald , who had adopted the surname of Judkin in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle John Lapp Judkin, of Cashel...

George IV, 1820–1830

1820: Sir Arthur Carden, 2nd Bt
1821: Chambre Brabazon Barker
1822: John Hely Hutchinson
1823: Sir Robert William O'Callaghan
1824: Sir Henry Robert Carden, 3rd Bt

1825: William Barton
1826: Mathew Pennefather
1827: Hon. George O'Callaghan
1828: William Perry
1829: Matthew Jacob

William IV, 1830–1837

1830: John Trant
1831:
1832: Stephen Moore
1833:

1834: John Bagwell
John Bagwell (1811-1883)
John Bagwell DL, JP was an Irish Liberal politician.Bagwell was the son of Reverend Richard Bagwell and Margaret Croker. He was High Sheriff of Tipperary in 1834, a Deputy Lieutenant for County Tipperary and a Justice of the Peace...
1835:
1836:

Victoria, 1837–1901

1837:
1838: Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie
1840: Henry Sadleir Prittie
1841: Thomas Edmund Lalor
1842: Richard Wilis Gason
1845: John Bayley
1846: John Trant
1847:
1848: Richard Pennefather
1849: Sir John Cravan Carden, 4th Bt
1850: Lieutenant-Colonel Wray Palliser
1851: George Ryan
1852: Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, 6th Bt
1855: Thomas Butler-Stoney
1856: Edward Bagwell Purefoy
1857: Edmond James Power-Lalor
1858:
1859: Thomas Sadleir
1860: Thomas Lalor
1861:
1862: Charles Clarke
1864: Hon. Bowes Daly
1865: Robert St John Cole Bowen
1868: Laurence Waldrov Waldron

1869: Richard Bagwell
Richard Bagwell
Richard Bagwell was a noted historian of the Stuart and Tudor periods in Ireland, and a political commentator with strong Unionist convictions.He was the eldest son of John Bagwell, M.P. for Clonmel from 1857 to 1874...
1870: Vincent Scully
1871: Francis Wise Low
1872: William Bassett Holmes
1873: Andrew Carden
1874: John Bayly
1875:
1876: Anthony Parker
1877: Arthur John Moore
1878: George Edward Ryan
1879: William Gibson
1880: Thomas Butler
1881:
1882: Sir John Craven Carden, 5th Bt
1883: Hon. Henry O'Callaghan Prittie
1884: Benjamin Frend Going
1885: Stephen Moore
1886: Hon. Cosby Godolphin Trench
Cosby Godolphin Trench
Cosby Godolphin Trench DL, JP , styled The Honourable from 1855, was a British soldier and magistrate....
1887: John Vivian Ryan-Lenigan
1888: Andrew Murray Carden
1889: FitzGibbon Trant
1890:
1891: Charles Neville Clarke
1892: James Netterville Atkinson
1893: Austin Cooper
1894:
1895: William Arthur Riall
1896: Robert George Edward Twiss
1897: Louis Henry Grubb
1898: Evelyn Fortescue Lloyd
1899: William Godfrey Dunham Massy
1900: Edward Henry Saunders

Edward VII, 1901–1910

1901: Charles Edward Tuthill
1902: Samuel Phillips
1903: Richard Henry FitzRichard Falkiner
1904: Randal Kingsmill Moore
1905: Marcus Beresford Armstrong

1906: Frederick Rhodes Armitage
1907: Walter Charles Butler-Stoney
1908: Standish Grady John Parker-Hutchinson
1909: Solomon Watson
1910: Charles Caleb Coote Webb

George V, 1910–1922

1911: Robert Joseph Cooke
1912: Hardress Gilbert Holmes
1913: Francis Simon Low
1914: Cavendish Walter Gartside-Tipping
1915: Charles Mayne Going
1916: Samuel Richard Grubb

1917: Darby Scully
1918: George Richard Cooke
1919: Richard Butler
1922:

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