title: Sheriff of Perth
text: # Sheriff of Perth
  
  The Sheriff of Perth was historically a royal official, appointed for life, who was responsible for enforcing justice in Perth, 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.
  
  Following consecutive reorganisations of the Scottish sheriffdoms the position became the Sheriff of Perthshire in 1747 and the Sheriff of Perth & Angus in 1934.
  
  The sheriffdom was dissolved in 1975 and replaced by that of Tayside, Central and Fife.
  
  ## Sheriffs of Perth
  
  * Kenneth (1164)
  * Roger de Mortimer of Aberdour (1209)
  * John de Moray (1210)
  * Geoffrey de Inverkunglas (1219)
  * John Hay of Naughton (1226-1228)
  * William Blund (1228)
  * Malcolm of Moray (1236)
  * Adam de Lochore
  * William de Munfichet (1245)
  * John Hay of Naughton (1246)
  * William de Lauder (1251)
  * David de Lochore (1255)
  * Gilbert de la Hay (1262)
  * John Cameron (1264)
  * George de Cambrun (1266)
  * Christian de l'Isle (1280)
  * Nicholas de la Haye (1289)
  * Walter de Burghdon (1295)
  * John de Inchmartin (1305)
  * Alexander de Abernethy (1305)
  * John de Stirling (1334)
  * Andrew Buthirgask (1344)
  * John Denniston (1355)
     * Harry de Fotheringay (1357)
  * Hugh de Ros (1362)
  * Andrew Buthirgask (1365)
  * Robert Stewart of Innermeath (1369)
  * Alexander Abercrombie (1370)
  * Thomas de Wanchope (1373)
  * Walter Stewart of Ralston (1381)
  * Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl (1433)
     * John Spence - 1433 - Deputy
     * Archibald Stewart - 1439 - Deputy
  * Patrick Charteris (1440)
  * John de Haddington (1441)
  * William Ruthven (1443)
  * Patrick Charteris (1446)
  * Patrick Graham, Lord Graham (1459)
  * William Graham (1465)
  * Laurence Oliphant, 1st Lord Oliphant (1470)
  * Robert Abercromby (1478)
  * John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1695–1724)
  * James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl (1724-1748)
  
  ## Sheriffs of Perthshire (1747)
  
  * Patrick Haldane, 1747-1748
  * James Erskine, 1748–1754
  * John Swinton, 1754–1782 (died 1799)
  * William Nairne of Dunsinnan, 1783–
  * Archibald Colquhoun, 1793–1807
  * John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn, 1807–1824
  * Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay, 1824–1834
  * Adam Anderson, 1835–1841
  * Robert Whigham, 1841–1849
  * James Craufurd, 1849–1853
  * Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, 1858–1866
  * John Tait, 1866–1874
  * James Adam, 1874–1876
  * John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, 1880–
  * William Gloag, Lord Kincairney, 1885–1889
  * Charles Pearson, 1889–1890
  * Andrew Graham Murray, 1890–1891
  * Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall, 1891–1905
  * Christopher Nicholson Johnston, KC, 1905–1916
  * John Wilson KC, 1917–1920
  * James Condie Stewart Sandeman KC, 1920–
  
  ## Sheriffs of Perth and Angus (1934)
  
  * Daniel Patterson Blades, 1934-1945 (Solicitor General for Scotland, 1945)
  * James Frederick Strachan, KC, 1945–1948
  * Laurence Hill Watson, KC, 1948–1952
  * Thomas Blantyre Simpson, QC, 1952–1954
  * Christopher William Graham Guest, QC, 1954–1955
  * Sir James Randall Philip, QC, 1955–1957
  * Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon, 1957–1958
  * Hector McKechnie, QC, 1958–1963
  * George Emslie, Baron Emslie, 1963–1966
  * Ian MacDonald Robertson, QC, 1966–1966
  * Margaret Henderson Kidd, QC, 1966–1974
  * William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield, 1974–1975
  * Sheriffdom replaced in 1975 by the sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife.
  