# Sheriff of Elgin

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sheriff_of_Elgin
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sheriff_of_Elgin.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Elgin
> Source revision: 1292156392
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

The **Sheriff of Elgin** was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in [Elgin](/source/Elgin%2C_Moray), [Scotland](/source/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 [sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin & Nairn](/source/Sheriff_of_Banff) in 1854, part of the [sheriffdom of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn](/source/Sheriff_of_Inverness) in 1882 and part of the [sheriffdom of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty](/source/Sheriff_of_Inverness) in 1946.

## Sheriffs of Elgin

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2016)

- Alexander Douglas (1226-1235)

- Thomas Wiseman (1237-1249)

- Alexander de Montfort (1261)

- [Reginald le Chen](/source/Reginald_le_Chen_(d.1312)) (1291-1297)

- [Willam Wiseman](/source/William_Wiseman_(sheriff_of_Elgin)) (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](/source/Robert_Cunningham_Graham_Spiers), 1835-1840 [1] ([Sheriff of Edinburgh](/source/Sheriff_of_Edinburgh), 1840–1847)

- [Cosmo Innes](/source/Cosmo_Innes), 1840–1852[2]

- Benjamin Robert Bell, 1852–1854 [3][4]([Sheriff of Banff, Elgin and Nairn](/source/Sheriff_of_Banff), 1854)

- *Sheriffdom merged in 1854 to form the [sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin and Nairn](/source/Sheriff_of_Banff)*

## See also

- [Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms](/source/Historical_development_of_Scottish_sheriffdoms)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002"](https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 October 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Moray Register"](http://www.electricscotland.com/history/records/russellsmorayshi1852elgi.pdf) (PDF). Retrieved 10 April 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["No. 21294"](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21294/page/525). *[The London Gazette](/source/The_London_Gazette)*. 24 February 1852. p. 525.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** "Sheriffs Salaries". *[The Dundee Courier](/source/The_Dundee_Courier)*. 25 January 1854.

- Taylor, Alice; The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (2016).

v t e Scottish sheriffs Current Glasgow and Strathkelvin Grampian, Highland and Islands Lothian and Borders North Strathclyde South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway Tayside, Central and Fife Former Aberdeen Angus Argyll Ayr Ayr and Bute Banff Berwick Bute Caithness Clackmannan Dumbarton Dumfries Dumfries and Galloway Edinburgh Elgin Fife Fife and Kinross Forfar Haddington Inverness Kirkcudbright Kincardine Kinross Lanark Linlithgow Lothians and Peebles Nairn Orkney and Shetland Peebles Perth Renfrew Renfrew and Argyll Ross Roxburgh Selkirk Stirling Sutherland Wigtown Scotland portal

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sheriff of Elgin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Elgin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Elgin?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.