High Sheriff of Tipperary

The High Sheriff of Tipperary was the Queen's representative for County Tipperary, a territory known as his bailiwick. Selected from three nominated people, each High Sheriff held office for a year. He had judicial, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.

History

The office of High Sheriff is the oldest under the English Crown. It is over 1000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest. It remained first in precedence in the counties, until the reign of Edward VII, when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord-Lieutenant the prime office under the Crown as the Sovereign's personal representative. The High Sheriff remained the Sovereign's representative in the County for all matters relating to the Judiciary and the maintenance of law and order.

In twenty-six counties of Ireland, the office ceased to exist at the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

High Sheriffs of Tipperary

*1726: William Bakercite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/index_sheriff.htm| title= thePeerage| accessdate= 2007-02-14]

*1768: Anthony Parker

*1807: George Lidwill [Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland 1899 p.261]

*1882: Sir John Craven Carden, 5th Baronet

*1876: Anthony Parker [Grandson of the 1768 High Sheriff; warrant of appointment in National Library of Ireland, MS 7331, p.29]

*1886: Cosby Godolphin Trench

*1908: Standish Grady John Parker-Hutchinson [Son of the 1876 High Sheriff; see Thom's Irish Who's Who (1923, p.201)]

*1915-6: Charles Mayne Going [Of Cragg, Birdhill; see Thom's Directory, 1916, p.1261.]

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