-
first known sheriff is
Gospatric (sheriff of Roxburgh). The
hereditary sheriffship of
Roxburghshire was
possessed by the
family of
Douglas until the abolition...
- and
profligate Court. On 23
April 1662 he
received a
Commission of the
Sheriffship of Ross-shire,
which was
afterwards renewed to him and to his eldest...
-
title was
created in 1699 for the
Agnew family, who held the
hereditary sheriffship of
Galloway for many generations. The
Barony of
Lochnaw was
created in...
- one of the Earl of Cathness's and Earl of Argyll's 'Deputies' in the
Sheriffship and Justiciary. The
other Deputes are Lord
Strathnaver himself, Ross...
-
Ogilvy of Auchterhouse, and by this
marriage he
gained the
heritable sheriffship and
barony of Forfar. They were
parents to two children:
Alexander Stewart...
-
barony of
Freuch in Galloway. In
January 1681, he was
appointed to the
sheriffships of Wigtown, Dumfries,
Kirkcudbright and Annandale. In
December 1682,...
-
practice of his
profession at the bar in Edinburgh. In 1780 he
resigned his
sheriffship and was
appointed one of the advocates-depute by
Henry Dundas, then Lord...
- of his
influence at court. He was
deprived in 1630 of his
heritable sheriffships of
Aberdeen and Inverness. The same year a feud
broke out
between the...
- that Hugh did not know how much that was, an
indication of his
absentee sheriffship. The
names of Hugh's
parents are unknown. He had a
brother named Aimery...
- This
Barony together with the
lands of Cavers, and also the
hereditary sheriffship of Roxburghshire, were
possessed by the
family of
Douglas until the abolition...
