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Dumfries Sheriff Court operates within the Sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway which also comprises the courts situated at Airdrie, Ayr, Hamilton, Kirkcudbright, Lanark and Stranraer.
As of The Sheriff Court Districts (Alteration of Boundaries) Order 1996, Dumfries Sheriff Court District covers wards 27-70 in the area of Dumfries and Galloway.
The first recorded sheriff of Dumfries occurs in 1237. On the abolition of heritable jurisdictions the Crown appointed sheriffs-depute of Dumfries and Wigtown and a Steward of the Stewardry of Kirkcudbright. On the death of the sheriff of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright in 1874 the sheriffdom was united with that of Dumfries, becoming known as the sheriffdom of Dumfries and Galloway, the union being effected under the Sheriffs Act of 1870. Under the Sheriff Courts (Sheriffdom of Dumfries and Galloway) Order, 1925, made under the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907, the post of resident sheriff-substitute at Kirkcudbright was abolished. The Eastern District of the Stewartry, comprising the parishes of Colvend, Dalbeattie, Irongray and Terregles, Kirkbean and New Abbey, Kirkgunzeon and Lochrutton, Kirkpatrick-Durham, Maxwelltown, Troqueer and Urr, was placed under the sheriff-substitute at Dumfries, while a sheriff-substitute at Newton-Stewart held courts at Wigtown, Stranraer and Kirkcudbright for Wigtownshire and the other parishes of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
Sheriffs-depute of Dumfries
1748 William Kirkpatrick. Also Clerk of Session and Keeper of Register of Tailzies
1761 William Kirkpatrick
1777 David Armstrong
1788 Edward Armstrong
1791 Robert Craigie. Sheriff-depute of Orkney and Steward-depute of Shetland, 16 Nov 1786
1811 Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick
1844 Mark Napier. Became Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway on 22 Dec 1874 upon the death of David Hector, Sheriff of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright.
Sheriffs of Dumfries and Galloway
1880 Norman Macpherson
1890 David Boyle Hope. Appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk on 29 Nov 1890
1890 Richard Vory Campbell. Appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk on 15 Oct 1896
1896 James Wallace
1899 Charles Rankine
1900 James Alexander Fleming. Appointed King's Counsel on 9 May 1903. Appointed Sheriff of Fife and Kinross on 8 Mar 1913
1913 David Anderson. Appointed King's Counsel on 4 Jun 1913. Appointed Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute on 31 Jul 1917
1917 George Morton. Appointed King's Counsel on 27 May 1918. Appointed Sheriff of Forfar on 2 Oct 1924
1924 Charles Herbert Brown. Appointed King's Counsel on 19 Feb 1919. Appointed Sheriff of Lothians and Peebles on 21 Nov 1927.
1927 Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross
1939 Charles Milne. Appointed King's Counsel on 30 Mar 1932 |