title: Sheriff of Elgin
text: # Sheriff of Elgin
  
  The Sheriff of Elgin was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Elgin, Scotland. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
  
  After a merger the sheriff became the Sheriff of Elgin and Nairn in 1747. After further mergers the sheriffdom became part of the sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin & Nairn in 1854, part of the sheriffdom of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn in 1882 and part of the sheriffdom of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty in 1946.
  
  ## Sheriffs of Elgin
  
  * Alexander Douglas (1226-1235)
  * Thomas Wiseman (1237-1249)
  * Alexander de Montfort (1261)
  * Reginald le Chen (1291-1297)
  * Willam Wiseman (1304-1305)
  * William de Strathbok (1337)
  * William de Valognes (1362)
  * Alexander Dunbar of Westfield (1446)
  * Alexander Dunbar (1470)
  * James Dunbar of Cumnock (c. 1497)
  
  ## Sheriffs-Depute of Elgin and Nairn (1747)
  
  * Sir George Abercromby, 4th Baronet, 1783–>1822
  * Robert Cunningham Graham Spiers, 1835-1840 (Sheriff of Edinburgh, 1840–1847)
  * Cosmo Innes, 1840–1852
  * Benjamin Robert Bell, –1854(Sheriff of Banff, Elgin and Nairn, 1854)
  * Sheriffdom merged in 1854 to form the sheriffdom of Banff, Elgin and Nairn
  