High Sheriff of County Waterford
Initially, an office for a lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became an annual appointment following the Provisions of Oxford in 1258.[1] Besides his judicial importance, the sheriff had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.Probably the most powerful of the early Sheriffs was Sir Walter de la Haye, a highly regarded Crown administrator and later a judge, who held office from 1272 to 1284.[3] The first (High) Shrievalties were established before the Norman Conquest in 1066 and date back to Saxon times.[4] 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.
County WaterfordHigh SheriffProvisions of OxfordJusticiar of IrelandNorman ConquestOrder in CouncilLord-LieutenantWalter de la HayeLaurence Esmonde, 1st Baron EsmondeValentine GreatrakesSir Richard Osborne, 2nd BaronetSir Thomas Osborne, 5th BaronetJohn HoreThomas ChristmasKilmanahanCornelius BoltonSir William Osborne, 8th BaronetBaronet of MayfieldMount CongreveEdward MaySir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet3rd BaronetRichard KeaneJohn Nugent HumbleStrancally CastleRichard MusgraveWilliam ChristmasClashmoreJohn FitzgeraldJohn William PowerJohn PalliserRobert Joshua Paul, 3rd BaronetRobert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron CarewRichard Musgrave, later Sir Richard Musgrave, 4th BaronetWilliam Charles Bonaparte-WyseSir John Henry Keane, 3rd BaronetCappoquin HouseCappoquinSir Henry Barron, 1st BaronetCharles William More, 5th Earl MountcashellDudley Francis FortescueTallowEdmond de la Poer, 1st Count de la PoerGurteen le PoerSir Richard John Musgrave, 5th BaronetAnnestownSir John Charles Kennedy, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Henry Grattan EsmondeHenry Windsor Villiers-StuartSir William Goff Davis-Goff, 1st BaronetRichard John UssherTramoreSir John Keane, 5th BaronetSir Herbert William Davis-Goff, 2nd BaronetSir Alexander Kay Muir, 2nd BaronetThe 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 ForestsSussexWestmorlandYorkshireCarlowDonegalDublinGalway