High Sheriff of Carlow
The High Sheriff of Carlow was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Carlow, Ireland from the 14th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Carlow County Sheriff.The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence.However, the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county.The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year.
County CarlowOrder in CouncilLord-LieutenantEscheatorGeorge Carew, 1st Earl of TotnesSir Thomas Butler, 1st BaronetSir Thomas Butler, 3rd BaronetMark BaggotSamuel BurtonRalph Howard, 1st Viscount WicklowSir Richard Butler, 7th BaronetJohn Maxwell BarryJohn Alexander, jnr.Horace William Noel RochfortHenry BruenArthur MacMorrough KavanaghWilliam Bunbury M'Clintock BunburyRathvillyBaltinglassSir Thomas Pierce Butler, 10th BaronetTullowMyshallPeter George FitzGerald, 1st BaronetThomas Kane McClintock-Bunbury, 2nd Baron RathdonnellJames Walter Milles Stopford, 6th Earl of CourtownRobert Abraham Brewster French-BrewsterWalter MacMurrough KavanaghBorrisCounty KildareKnight of KerryDenis Robert Pack-BeresfordCharles John EngledowEdward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of BessboroughThomas Herbert RobertsonFoulksrath CastleMount LeinsterSir Richard Pierce Butler, 11th BaronetBaron RathdonnellBurke, BernardThe London GazetteThe Edinburgh GazetteHigh sheriffs in the United KingdomBedfordshireBerkshireBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCheshireCornwallCumbriaDerbyshireDorsetDurhamEast Riding of YorkshireEast SussexGloucestershireCity of LondonGreater LondonGreater ManchesterHampshireHerefordshireHertfordshireIsle of WightLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireMerseysideNorfolkNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshireRutlandShropshireSomersetSouth YorkshireStaffordshireSuffolkSurreyTyne and WearWarwickshireWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWiltshireWorcestershireBedfordshire and BuckinghamshireBerkshire and OxfordshireCambridgeshire and HuntingdonshireCambridgeshire and Isle of ElyClevelandCumberlandHallamshireHereford and WorcesterHumbersideHuntingdon and PeterboroughLeicestershire and WarwickshireCounty of LondonMiddlesexNorfolk and SuffolkNotts, Derbys and the Royal ForestsSussexWestmorlandYorkshireDonegalDublinGalwayKildareKilkennyKing's CountyLeitrimLimerickLongfordMonaghanQueen's CountyRoscommonTipperaryWaterfordWestmeathWexfordWicklowAntrimArmaghFermanagh