The Sheriff of Angus (alternatively the Sheriff of Forfar) was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Angus, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice.
Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, they were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar.
After the merger of sheriffdoms in 1934 the post became that of the Sheriff of Perth and Angus.
Sheriffs of Forfar
William de Monte Alto William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (1195-1211) Hugh Cameron (1214-1219) Thomas Malherb (1227) John Fenton (1261) Robert de Monte Alto (Mowat) (1261-1264) William de Monte Alto (Mowat) (1264) John Fenton (1266) Matthew le Chen (1272) Alexander de Lamberton David de Bethune (1290) Henry de Prestoun (1304) John de Pollock (1305) William de Airth (1305) John de Traquair (1328) Robert Ramsay (1340) John Octerlony (1342) Robert Ramsay (1359) Malcolm Ramsay (1365) Walter Ogilvy of Auchterhouse (-1391) Duncan Lighton - 1391 - Deputy Alexander Ogilvy (1400) Patrick Ogilvy (1428) Walter Ogilvy (1434) Alexander Ogilvy of Auchterhouse (1454) Thomas Fenton - 1454 - Deputy David Guthrie, (1457–) David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford (1474) Alexander Lindsay - 1483 - Deputy John Ramsay of Teling (1497) Patrick Gray, 4th Lord Gray, 1541–?1584 (died 1584) Patrick Maule of Panmure (1632)
Sheriffs-Depute (1748) George Broun, 1748–1753 John Campbell of Stonefield (Lord Stonefield), 1753– Patrick Chalmers, 1769–1807 Adam Duff, 1807–1819 James L'Amy, 1819–1854 Alexander Currie, 1854 Alexander Stuart Logan 1854-1862 Frederick Lewis Maitland Heriot, 1862–1881 John Comrie Thomson, 1885–1898 Henry Johnston, 1898–1905 James Ferguson KC, 1905–1917 John Mckie Lees KB KC, 1917–1923Previously Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan Alexander Munro MacRobert KC, 1923–1924 Sir George Morton, 1924–1932 Daniel Patterson Blades, 1932–1934 For sheriffs after 1934 see Sheriff of Perth and Angus.
See also Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms
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