title: Sheriff of Berwick
text: # Sheriff of Berwick
  
  The Sheriff of Berwick was historically a royal official, who was responsible for enforcing justice in Berwickshire, 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 sheriffdom was merged into the new sheriffdom of Haddington and Berwick in 1856.
  
  ## Sheriffs of Berwick
  
  * Norman (1147)
  * Walter de Lindsay (1206)
  * Robert of Upsettlington (1220)
  * Ingram de Balliol (1228)
  * William de Lindsay (c. 1230)
  * David de Graham (1236)
  * John Maxwell
  * David de Graham (1264)
  * Hugh de Berkeley (1266)
  * John de Soulis (1288)
  * William Lindsay
  * Richard Fraser
  * Osbert of Spaldington (1295-1297)
  * John de Burdon (1300-1302)
  * Edmund Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (1312)
  * John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (1325)
  * Hugh Gifford (1329)
  * Robert Lauder (1330)
  * John I Preston, Baron of Craigmillar (c. 1420)
  * Patrick Nesbit (1437)
  * Walter de Halyburton
  * John de Halyburton (1447)
     * Alexander Hume (1447) - Deputy
  * Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre (1450)
  * Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes (1470)
  * Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell (1480)
  * Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell (1511)
  * Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont (1690–1710)
  * Alexander, Earl of Home (1710-1715)
  * Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont (1715-1724)
  * Alexander, Earl of Marchmont (1724-)
  
  ### Sheriffs-Depute
  
  * George Ker, 1755– (first Sheriff-depute of modern era)
  * David Hume of Ninewells, 1783–1793 (Sheriff of Linlithgow, 1793–1811)
  * John Swinton, 1793–1809
  * David Douglas of Reston, 1809–1813
  * William Boswell, <1819–1840
  * Robert Bell 1841–1856 (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1856)
  * For sheriffs after 1856 see Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick
  