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The Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway, was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the hereditary sheriffs were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.

The Sheriff of Dumfries had been retitled the Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway in 1874 after the sheriffdom of Wigton and Kirkcudbright had been joined with the sheriffdom of Dumfries. The combined sheriffdom was replaced in 1975 by the current sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.

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Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway

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The Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway, was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Prior...

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Dumfries and Galloway

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Dumfries and Galloway (Scots: Dumfries an Gallowa; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland...

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Wigtownshire

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Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. The rest of Galloway remained under the authority of a sheriff, and became known as the Shire of Wigtown, or Wigtownshire. The area...

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Nithsdale

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Kyle to the north-west and Galloway to the west. By 1305 the area was part of the shire of Dumfries. The sheriff of Dumfries also had nominal jurisdiction...

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Kirkcudbrightshire

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majority of the historic county from 1975 to 1996. The area of Stewartry district is still used as a lieutenancy area. Dumfries and Galloway Council also...

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Stranraer Sheriff Court

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Stranraer Sheriff Court is a judicial building in Lewis Street, Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The building, which continues to be used as...

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Galloway

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of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. It is administered as part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway. A native or inhabitant of Galloway is...

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Dumfriesshire

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Since 1975, the area of the historic county has formed part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area for local government purposes. The coastline measures...

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Earl of Dumfries

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Scotland in the area of Dumfries and Galloway. The lord's descended to become the Earls of Dumfries, a title in the peerage of Scotland in 1633 for William...

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Sheriff court

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and Borders, North Strathclyde, South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, and Tayside Central and Fife. As of 1 February 2015, there are 39 Sheriff Courts...

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Stewartry

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until 1996 within the Dumfries and Galloway region in south-west Scotland. Under the name The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright the area of the former district...

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Kirkcudbright

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town, parish and a royal burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The...

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Charles Kincaid Mackenzie

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Cambridge, and graduating BA (Hons). He was the Scottish bar in 1881 and in 1895 was living at 47 Heriot Row. He was Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway 1899/1900...

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Sheriff principal

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sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin to the sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway. The work of a sheriff principal is partly judicial and partly...

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Sheriffdom

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Chryston from the sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin to the sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway. Elsewhere boundaries were simply redefined...

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Stranraer

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əɾ]) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on Loch Ryan and the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland. Stranraer...

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Sheriff of Wigtown

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the Sheriff of Wigton & Kirkcudbright in 1860 and was dissolved and incorporated into the sheriffdom of Dumfries & Galloway in 1874. The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright...

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Lerwick Town Hall

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of art in the town hall include a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Leonard Boden and a portrait of Charles Rampini, Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway...

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List of lochs of Scotland

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Loch (Dumfries and Galloway) Barfad Loch (Dumfries and Galloway) Bargatton Loch (Dumfries and Galloway) Barhapple Loch (Dumfries and Galloway) Barlockhart...

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Sheriff of Lanark

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sheriffdom of Lanarkshire was dissolved in 1975 when it was replaced by the current sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway. Baldwin of Biggar...

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Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms

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Dumfriesshire, with the Sheriff of that county, Mark Napier, becoming Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway. On the death of George Napier, Sheriff of Peebles, on 29...

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Richard Vary Campbell

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advocate in 1864. He rose to be Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway in 1890 and from 1896 was Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk. In 1886, Richard unsuccessfully...

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