High Sheriff of King's County British Crown's judicial representative
The High Sheriff of King's County was the British Crown's judicial representative in King's County (now County Offaly), Ireland, from 1556, when King's County was created, until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Offaly 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 King's County (County Offaly) unless stated otherwise.
1656: Henry L'Estrange
1657: Sir George Blundell, 2nd Baronet
1662: Philip Bigoe
1663: Charles Lyons of River Lyons
1667: Thomas Wakely[ 1]
1671: John Reading of Readingstown
1672: John Baldwin[ 2]
1674: Jonathan Darby of Leap Castle
1680: Edward Bagot
Robert Lovett
1693: Geoffrey Lyons of River Lyons[ 2]
1694: James Sterling
1695: John Wakely of Ballyburly[ 3]
1697: John Baldwin, jnr of Corolanty[ 2]
1698: Hector Vaughan of Dromoyle and Knocknamease[ 3]
1701: Richard Warburton of Garryhinch[ 1]
1702: Geoffrey Lyons of River Lyons[ 2]
1703: John Reading of Readingstown
1704: Geoffrey Lyons of River Lyons
1705: Francis Heaton of Mount Heaton[ 2]
1707: Peter Holmes of Johnstown[ 4]
1708:Sir George Seymour
1711: James Forth of Charleville Castle [ 2]
1713: George Holmes of Liscloony[ 4]
1715: Colley Lyons, MP, of River Lyons[ 2]
1717: Benjamin Frend of Boskell, County Limerick and Ballyreehy[ 3]
1720: Henry Malone of Litter[ 2]
1721:
1726: Thomas Wakely of Ballyburly[ 1]
1730: Edmund Armstrong
1731:
1738: Warenford Armstrong
1738: Hector Vaughan of Fancroft[ 3]
1740: John Frend of Boskell, County Limerick and Ballyreehy[ 3]
1741: Nicholas Biddulph of Fortal and Rath-Robin[ 4]
1744: Henry Lyons of River Lyons[ 2]
1750: Arthur Judge of Readingstown[ 4]
1751: Andrew Armstrong
1752: George Fraser of Park and Cuba House[ 5]
1753:
1754: Peter Marsh of Moyally[ 6]
1755: Francis Lumm , later Sir Francis Lumm, 1st Baronet of Lummville[ 7]
1756:
1759: John O'Connor of Mount Pleasant [ 3]
1763: John Wakely of Ballyburly[ 1]
1764: Daniel Chenevix, of Ballycommon[ 4]
1766: William Peisley Vaughan of Golden Grove[ 3]
1768: John Minchin of Bushertown[ 3]
1769:
1771: Gilbert Holmes of Belmont[ 4]
1772: Owen Moony of Lackaghbeg[ 3]
1774: Denis Bowes Daly [ 8]
1777: Christopher Bor[ 4]
1777: Andrew Armstrong of Castle Armstrong[ 9]
1779: Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet [ 10]
1780: John Drought
1782: John King[ 4]
1782: Benjamin Frend of Clooneen[ 1] [ 11]
1783: Maurice Nugent O'Connor[ 1]
1784: James Frank Roleston of Dunkerrin[ 12]
1785: Thomas Bernard, of Castle-Town[ 13]
1786: John Warburton of Garryhinch[ 1]
1787: Jonathan Darby of Leap Castle [ 14]
1788:
1792: Thomas Ryder of Laughton[ 3]
1793: William Carroll Moony of New Lawn, County Tipperary[ 3]
1794: Robert James Enraght-Moony of The Doon[ 3]
1796: John Wakely of Ballyburly[ 1]
1798: Thomas Bernard of Castle Bernard [ 15]
1799: Henry Verney Lovett Darby of Annvilla[ 1]
1801: Richard Warburton of Garryhinch
1801: Joseph Studholme of Ballyeighan and Kilmaine[ 3]
1802: Charles Baldwin[ 2]
1803: Jackson Wray Atkinson of Cangort[ 3]
1804: James Frank Rolleston of Frankfort Castle[ 16]
1805: William Peasley Vaughan of Golden Grove[ 16]
1806: Maunsell Andrews of Rathenny[ 3] [ 16]
1807: John Downing Nesbitt[ 16]
1808: John Drought[ 16]
1809: Thomas St George Armstrong of Garry Castle House[ 3] [ 16]
1810: George Arbuthnot Holmes of Moorock[ 17]
1811: Sir Andrew Armstrong, Bt
1812: George Meares John Drought[ 18]
1813: Humphrey Borr[ 18]
1814: Henry Spunner[ 18]
1815: George Marsh[ 18]
1816: Thomas Homan Mulock of Bellair[ 3]
1816: Henry Peisley l'Estrange, jnr of Moystown[ 19]
1817: Richard Malone[ 18]
1818: Edmund Armstrong
1819: Garrett O'Moore[ 18]
1820: Francis Moony Enragh-Moony of the Doon[ 16]
1821: John Head Drought[ 18]
1822: Thomas Hornan Molluck[ 18]
1823: Benjamin Lucas[ 16]
1824: George Minchin of Bushertown[ 20]
1825: Lord Tullamore
1826: Sir Robert Waller, 2nd Baronet of Newport[ 21]
1827: William H. Magan, Clocarl, Philipstown[ 22]
1828: George Minchin of Bushertown[ 3]
1840: Henry Sandford Palmer of Ballinlough[ 1]
1841: Garrett O'Moore of Cloghan Castle, Kinnitty[ 23]
1842: Thomas Bernard of Castle Bernard [ 24]
1844: Thomas Hackett of Moor Park[ 3]
1845: Richard Warburton of Garryhinch[ 25]
1846: Guy Atkinson of Cangort[ 1]
1848: Charles B. Baldwin of London[ 26]
1849: Thomas Homan Mulock of Bellaire, Ballycottier[ 27]
1850: Edward John Corr, of Ballinolan, Ederderry[ 28]
1852: John Gilbert King of Ballylinn, Ferbane[ 11]
1853: John Wakely of Ballyburly[ 3]
1854: Francis Valentine Bennett
1855: Robert James Enraght Moony of Mount Pleasant[ 11]
1856: William G.D.Nesbitt of Thubberdaly House, Edenberry[ 29]
1857:
1858: James Drought of Banagher[ 30]
1859: Thomas Seymour of Ballymore Castle, Galway[ 1]
1860: Edward John Briscoe of Screggan
1861: Hon. Alfred Bury, later 5th Earl of Charleville
1862: Arthur Henry Nicholas Kemmis[ 11]
1863: John Craven Westenra
1864:
1866: John Lloyd of Gloster[ 3]
1867: Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse [ 31]
1868: Captain Maxwell Fox of Annaghmore[ 11]
1869: Thomas Longworth-Dames of Greenhill[ 3]
1870: George John Minchin of Bushertown[ 3]
1871: Bernard Daly of Hazlebrook, Dublin and Tullamore [ 3]
1872: Richard Warburton of Garryhinch[ 11]
1873: Captain Ambrose Clement Wolseley Cox[ 32]
1874: William Bassett Holmes of St David's[ 3]
1875: Peter Hamlet Thompson of Stonestown and Park[ 3]
1876: Marcus Goodbody of Inchmore[ 3]
1877: Arthur Burdett of Coolfin
1878: William Peisley Hutchinson-Lloyd-Vaughan of Golden Grove[ 3]
1879: John Sherlock of Rahan[ 3]
1880: William Grogan Graves of Cloghan Castle, Banagher [ 11]
1881:
1882: Henry Vincent Jackson of Inane[ 11]
1883: Jonathan Charles Darby of Leap castle , Roscrea , County Tipperary [ 11]
1884: Kenneth Howard Bury[ 3]
1885: William Thomas Trench of Redwood, County Tipperary [ 3]
1886: William Kennedy Marshall of Baronne Court, Ormond Lower [ 11]
1887: Captain Caulfeild French of Castletehin, Roscommon and Castle Bernard , Kinnitty[ 11]
1888: Arthur Frederick Churchhill Tollemache of Ballincur[ 1]
1889: Capt. Thomas Armstrong Drought of Letty Brook, Kennitty[ 11]
1890:
1892: Edward John Downing Beaumont-Nesbitt of Tubberdaly[ 3]
1893: Hector Robert Graham Toler
1894: James Perry Goodbody of Inchmore[ 3]
1895: William Bury Homan-Mulock of Bellair[ 1]
1896: Arthur Hugo Florian de Burdet Burdett of Ballymany, County Kildare and Coolfin
1897: Bernard Daly of Dunboy[ 3]
1898:
1899: Turner Oliver Read of Dungar House, Roscrea
1900: George Austin Medlen of Lowlands, Roscrea
1901:
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