The High Sheriff of Tipperary was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Tipperary. Initially an office for a lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became annually appointed from the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Besides his judicial importance, he had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.
History The first (High) Shrievalties were established before the Norman Conquest in 1066 and date back to Saxon times. 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. Despite however that the office retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in a county.
County Tipperary was a liberty administered by the Earls of Ormond, who thereby appointed the Sheriff, until it was extinguished as part of the second Duke's attainder for supporting the Jacobite rising of 1715. It then became a normal county under the direct control of the King.
In Tipperary and in four of the counties of the province of Connaught the office ceased to exist with the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.
High Sheriffs of Tipperary 1295: Walter Brett/le BretCalendar of Irish Chancery Letters c.1244-1509 1318: John PembrokePatent Roll 11 Edward II 1405: James ButlerPatent Roll 7 Henry IV 1605: Hon Thomas Butler 1610: Piers Butler fitzJames of Lismalin 1612: William St John of Skaddanston 1613: Thomas Cantwell 1614: Richard Butler of Knocktopher 1615: William O'Meary of Lisenoskey 1616: Daniel O'Bryen 1618: Gilbert Butler 1619: Robert Carew 1620: William St John 1625: William O'Meara
English Interregnum, 1649–1660
1657: Richard le Hunte of Cashel 1658: Sir Thomas Stanley 1659: Henry Prittie
Charles II, 1660–1685
1660: 1666: Thomas Sadleir of Sopwell hall 1672: Eliah Greene
1673: 1674: John Pyke or PikeOxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections, MS. Carte 160, fol(s). 66. 1675: Richard Moore of Clonmel 1676: 1684:
James II, 1685–1689 1686: Anthony MaudeBurke's Peerage 107th Edition Vol.2 p.1825 1687: Isaac Walden
William III, 1689–1702
1689: 1695:
1696: Humphrey Minchin of Ballinakill 1697: 1698: Thomas Moore of Chancellorstown 1701:
Anne, 1702–1714
1702: 1703: Kingsmill Pennefather of New Park 1707:
1708: Kingsmill Pennefather of New Park (2nd term) 1709: Sir William Parsons, 2nd Bt 1712: Matthew Pennefather 1713: Thomas Armstrong of Mealiffe
George I, 1714–1727
1714: 1717: John Carleton of Darling Hill 1719: Kilner BrasierBurkes Irish Landed Gentry 1912 1720:
1721: 1722: Guy Moore of Abbey 1723: 1724: Richard Pennefather 1725: 1726: William Baker of Lismacue
George II, 1727–1760
1727: 1729: Robert Marshall 1731: Lovelace Taylor of Noan and Ballinure 1732: 1733: John Minchin of Annagh 1736: Paul Minchin of Balinakill 1738: William Armstrong of Farney Castle and Mount Heaton 1741: Sir Thomas Dancer, 4th Bt 1743:
1744: Richard Moore of Barne House, Clonmel 1745: 1750: Kingsmill Pennefather 1753: John Bloomfield of Redwood 1757: Stephen Moore 1758: 1759: John Bayly of Debsborough
George III, 1760–1820
1760: 1764: William Barker 1765: Sir Thomas Maude, 2nd Bt 1766: Daniel TolerMosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2904. 1768: Anthony Parker of Castle Lough 1770: Henry Prittie 1772: Peter Holmes of Peterfield 1777: Richard Biggs of Castle Biggs 1778: 1779: Mark Lidwill of Clonmore, Cormackstown and Annfield 1780: 1781: Robert Nicholson of Wilmar 1782: Richard Butler Hamilton Lowe of Lowe's Green 1783: James Ffogerty of Castle ffogerty 1784: Richard or Stephen Moore of Chancellor's Town 1785: Thomas Barton of Grove 1786: Stephen Moore 1789: Daniel Mansergh of Cashel 1790: 1793: John Bagwell
1794: Daniel Minchin Toler 1795: Peter Holmes of Peterfield 1797: John Carden"Tipperary in the Year of the Rebellion 1798" William J Hayes, Lisheen Press 1998, p 20 1798: Sir Thomas Judkin-FitzGerald, 1st Bt 1803: Thomas Going 1804: Henry Osborne 1805: William Hutchinson 1806: George Lidwill of Dromard 1807: John Poe 1808: Henry Langley 1809: John Southcote Mansergh of Grenane 1810: Dunbar Barton of Rochestown 1811: Benjamin Bagwell 1812: Thomas Prendergast 1813: William Quinn 1814: Fergus Langley 1815: Richard Creagh 1816: Pierce Archer Butler 1817: Vere Dawson Hunt 1818: Nathaniel Taylor of Noan 1819: Kingsmill Pennefather † / succeeded by Sir John Judkin-Fitzgerald, 2nd Bt
George IV, 1820–1830
1820: Sir Arthur Carden, 2nd Bt 1821: Chambre Brabazon Barker 1822: John Hely Hutchinson 1823: Sir Robert William O'Callaghan 1824: Sir Henry Robert Carden, 3rd Bt
1825: William Barton of Grove, Fethard, Tipperary 1826: Mathew Pennefather of New Park 1827: Hon. George O'Callaghan 1828: William Perry of Woodrooff 1829: Matthew Jacob
William IV, 1830–1837
1830: John Trant 1831: 1832: Stephen Moore 1833:
1834: John Bagwell of Marlfield 1835: 1836: Maurice Crosbie Moore of Mooresfoot
Victoria, 1837–1901
1837: 1838: Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie 1840: Henry Sadleir Prittie 1841: Thomas Edmund Lalor 1842: Richard Wilis Gason of Richmond 1843: 1844: 1845: John Bayley 1846: John Trant of Dovea 1847: Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore 1848: Richard Pennefather of Knockevan, Clonmel 1849: Sir John Cravan Carden, 4th Bt of the Priory 1850: Lieutenant-Colonel Wray Palliser of Derryluskan 1851: George Ryan 1852: Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, 6th Bt 1853: 1855: Thomas Butler-Stoney of Portland Park 1856: Edward Bagwell Purefoy of Greenfield 1857: Edmond James Power-Lalor of Long Orchard 1858: Honourable George Stephens Gough of Rathronan, Clonmel 1859: Thomas Sadleir of Castletown and Ballinderry 1860: Thomas Lalor of Cregg 1861: Sir William Osborne, 13th Baronet, Beechwood 1862: Charles Clarke of Graiguenoe Park 1864: Hon. Bowes Daly 1864: James Lenigan Google Books 1865: Robert St John Cole Bowen of Bowen's Court 1866: 1867: Stephen Charles Moore of Barne 1868: Laurence Waldrov Waldron of Helen Park
1869: Richard Bagwell of Marlfield 1870: Vincent Scully of Mantle Hill 1871: Francis Wise Low of Kilshane 1872: William Bassett Holmes of St David's 1873: Andrew Carden 1873: James Fogarty of Castle Fogarty 1874: John Bayly of Debsborough 1875: James Scully of ShanballymoreThom's Directory 1876 p. 1142 1876: Anthony Parker 1877: Arthur John Moore of Mooresfort 1878: George Edward Ryan of Inch 1879: William Gibson 1880: Thomas Butler of Ballycarron 1881: Henry Jesse Lloyd of LloydsboroughA genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland 1882: Sir John Craven Carden, 5th Bt. 1883: Hon. Henry O'Callaghan Prittie 1884: Benjamin Frend Going 1885: Stephen Moore of Barne 1886: Hon. Cosby Godolphin Trench of Sopwell Hall. 1887: John Vivian Ryan-Lenigan of Castle fogerty 1888: Andrew Murray Carden of Barnane 1889: FitzGibbon Trant 1890: 1891: Charles Neville Clarke of Graiguenoe Park 1891: William Bassett Traherne Holmes of St David's 1892: James Netterville Atkinson of Ashley Park 1893: Austin Samuel Cooper 1894: John Bayly of Debsborough 1895: William Arthur Riall of Annerville 1896: Robert George Edward Twiss of Birdhill House 1897: Louis Henry Grubb 1898: Evelyn Fortescue Lloyd of Cranagh Castle 1899: William Godfrey Dunham Massy 1900: Edward Henry Saunders of Kilavalla
Edward VII, 1901–1910
1901: Charles Edward Tuthill 1902: Samuel Phillips of Gaile 1903: Richard Henry FitzRichard Falkiner 1904: Randal Kingsmill Moore of Barne 1905: Marcus Beresford Armstrong of Mealiffe
1906: Frederick Rhodes Armitage 1907: Walter Charles Butler-Stoney of Portland Park 1908: Standish Grady John Parker-Hutchinson of Timoney Park and Castle Lough, Tipperary 1909: Solomon Watson of Ballingarrane 1910: Charles Caleb Coote Webb of Kilmore, Nenagh
George V, 1910–1922
1911: Robert Joseph Cooke 1912: Hardress Gilbert Holmes 1913: Francis Simon Low 1914: Cavendish Walter Gartside-Tipping 1915: Charles Mayne Going 1916: Samuel Richard Grubb
1917: Darby Scully 1918: George Richard Cooke 1919: Richard Butler 1922:
Notes † Died in office
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