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Sheriff of Lanark
Office in Scotland, dissolved 1975
The Sheriff of Lanark or Sheriff of Lanarkshire was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to justice in Lanarkshire, 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 of Lanarkshire was dissolved in 1975 when it was replaced by the current sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway.
Sheriffs of Lanarkshire
- Sheriffs-Depute (1748)
- Robert Sinclair, 1775–1786 [1]
- Sir William Honyman, 1st Baronet, 1786–1797 [2]
- Robert Hamilton, 1797–1822 [3]
- William Rose Robinson, 1822–1834 [4]
- Archibald Alison, 1834–1867 [5]
- Henry Glassford Bell, 1867–1874 [6][7]
- William Gillespie Dickson, 1874–1876 [7]
- Francis William Clark, 1876–1886[8]
- Robert Berry, 1886–1903 [8]
- William Guthrie, 1903–[9]
- Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, 1917-1933[10][11]
- Sir Archibald Campbell Black, KC, 1937–1952 [12][13]
- Sir Robert Henry Sherwood Calver, QC, 1952–[13]
- Sir Allan Grierson Walker, QC, 1963–74 [14]
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