The Sheriff of Ayr was historically (from 1221) the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Ayr, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. Sundrum Castle was used by the sheriff from the 14th century, and Loudoun Castle from the 16th century.[citation needed] 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.

In 1946 Bute was added to form the new sheriffdom of Ayr and Bute, which was in turn abolished in 1975 and replaced by the current sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway .

Sheriffs of Ayr

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Sheriffs-Depute (1748)
  • William Duff, 1747–1775 [3][10]
  • William Wallace, 1775–1786[11]
  • William Craig, Lord Craig, 1787–1792
  • Edward McCormick, 1793–1814[12]
  • Archibald Bell, 1815–>1852 [13] (died 1854)
  • John Christison, <1861–1862 [8]
  • Neil Colquhoun Campbell of Barnhill, 1862–1883
  • John Comrie Thomson, 1883–1885 [8]
  • Sir David Brand, 1885–1908 [14][8]
  • John Campbell Lorimer, 1908–1911[14][15]
  • William Lyon Mackenzie, 1911–1937[15][16]
  • Arthur Paterson Duffes, KC, 1937–1946[16][17]

Sheriffs of Ayr and Bute (1946)

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See also

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References

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  3. ^ a b c d e f Chalmers, George. Caledonia: Or, An Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain . p. 453.
  4. ^ a b "Sundrum Castle : History". sundrumcastle.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins (Over 193,000 names). - Person Page".
  6. ^ G. Harvey Johnston. (1920). The heraldry of the Campbells, with notes on all the males of the family, descriptions of the arms, plates and pedigrees. Vol. 2. https://archive.org/details/heraldryofcampbe02john
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  9. ^ Charles Rogers (1889). The Book of Wallace.
  10. ^ Milne, Hugh. Boswell's Edinburgh Journals: 1767-1786.
  11. ^ Milne, Hugh. Boswell's Edinburgh Journals: 1767-1786.
  12. ^ Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volume 19. p. 156.
  13. ^ The Scots Magazine. Vol. 77. p. 236.
  14. ^ a b "No. 28108". The London Gazette. 11 February 1908. p. 968.
  15. ^ a b "No. 12394". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 September 1911. p. 965.
  16. ^ a b "No. 15352". The Edinburgh Gazette. 12 January 1937. p. 32.
  17. ^ a b "No. 37663". The London Gazette. 23 July 1946. p. 3797.
  18. ^ a b "No. 38303". The London Gazette. 28 May 1948. p. 3197.
  19. ^ a b "No. 16631". The Edinburgh Gazette. 22 March 1949. p. 121.
  20. ^ a b "No. 16986". The Edinburgh Gazette. 25 July 1952. p. 442.
  21. ^ a b "No. 17234". The Edinburgh Gazette. 16 November 1954. p. 600.
  22. ^ a b "No. 41095". The London Gazette. 7 June 1957. p. 3432.
  23. ^ a b "No. 42474". The London Gazette. 26 September 1961. p. 6985.
  24. ^ a b c "SHERIFFS (SCOTLAND)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 21 May 1974. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  25. ^ "No. 45913". The London Gazette. 20 February 1973. p. 2364.