title: Sheriff of Kincardine
text: # Sheriff of Kincardine
  
  The Sheriff of Kincardine, also known as The Mearns, was historically a royal appointment, held at pleasure, which carried the responsibility for enforcing justice in Kincardine, 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 a general merger of the sheriffdoms in 1870 the position became the Sheriff of Aberdeen and Kincardine.
  
  ## Sheriffs
  
  * Osbert Olifard (c. 1160)
  * John de Hastinkes, Lord of Dun (1163-1178)
  * Robert de Inverkeilor (c. 1198)
  * Robert Senescald (1214-1225)
  * Philip de Melville, Lord of Mondynes (1222-1240)
  * John Wishart (1230)
  * Reginald le Chen (1263)
  * Robert le Chen (1263-1266)
  * Reginald le Chen (1266)
  * Reginald le Chen (1290)
  * Alexander de Abernethy (1305)
  * Richard de Dummor (1305)
  * Alexander de Stratoun, Lord of Lauriston (1328)
  * Alexander Fraser (1330)
  * Simon Fraser (1337)
  * Robert de Keith (1348-1358)
  * William de Keith (1359-1391)
     * Robert Burnard - Deputy (1391)
  * Robert de Keith, Lord of Troup (1406-1407)
  * William Keith (1442)
     * Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity - Deputy (1443)
     * Patrick Barclay - Deputy (1448)
  * John de Melville of Glenbervie (1420)
  * William Keith, 1st Earl Marischal (1470)
  * William Keith, 2nd Earl Marischal (1483)
  * William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal (1492)
  * William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal (1525)
  * William Keith, Lord Keith (1621)
  
  ### Sheriffs-Depute
  
  * Arthur Sheppard, 1728–1748?
  * Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone, 1748–1760?
  * James Burnet, 1760–1767?
  * Walter Campbell of Shawfield, 1767–1777
  * John Scott, 1777–1780?
  * John Ramsay, 1780–1783
  * Alexander Gordon, 1784–1806?
  * Adam Gillies, 1806–1811
  * George Douglas, 1812–1847?
  * Archibald Davidson, 1847–1848 (Sheriff of Aberdeen, 1848)
  * John Cowan, 1848–1851
  * John Montgomerie Bell, 1852–1862
  * Alexander Burns Shand, 1862–1869 (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1869-1872}
  * For sheriffs after 1870 see Sheriff of Aberdeen and Kincardine.
  