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The '''Sheriff of Elgin''' was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]], [[Scotland]]. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
After a merger the sheriff became the '''Sheriff of Elgin and Nairn''' in 1747. After further mergers the sheriffdom became part of the [[Sheriff of Banff|sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin & Nairn]] in 1854, part of the [[Sheriff of Inverness|sheriffdom of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn]] in 1882 and part of the [[Sheriff of Inverness|sheriffdom of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty]] in 1946.
==Sheriffs of Elgin== {{Expand list|date=December 2016}} *Alexander Douglas (1226-1235) *Thomas Wiseman (1237-1249) *Alexander de Montfort (1261) *[[Reginald le Chen (d.1312)|Reginald le Chen]] (1291-1297) *[[William Wiseman (sheriff of Elgin)|Willam Wiseman]] (1304-1305) *William de Strathbok (1337) *William de Valognes (1362) *Alexander Dunbar of Westfield (1446) *Alexander Dunbar (1470) *James Dunbar of Cumnock (c. 1497)
==Sheriffs-Depute of Elgin and Nairn (1747)== *Sir George Abercromby, 4th Baronet, 1783–>1822 *[[Robert Cunningham Graham Spiers]], 1835-1840 <ref> {{cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|publisher= Royal Society of Edinburgh|accessdate= 26 October 2017}} </ref> ([[Sheriff of Edinburgh]], 1840–1847) *[[Cosmo Innes]], 1840–1852<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.electricscotland.com/history/records/russellsmorayshi1852elgi.pdf|title=Moray Register|accessdate= 10 April 2018}} </ref> *Benjamin Robert Bell, 1852–1854 <ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21294|page=525|date=24 February 1852}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Sheriffs Salaries|newspaper=[[The Dundee Courier]]|date=25 January 1854}}</ref>([[Sheriff of Banff|Sheriff of Banff, Elgin and Nairn]], 1854)
*''Sheriffdom merged in 1854 to form the [[Sheriff of Banff|sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin and Nairn]]''
==See also== * [[Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms]]
==References== <references /> *Taylor, Alice; The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (2016).
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