The Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland was historically responsible for enforcing law and order in Ross-shire, Cromartyshire and Sutherland in Scotland...
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Ross and Cromarty (Scottish Gaelic: Ros agus Cromba), is an area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. In modern usage, it is a registration county...
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Ross-shire (/ˈrɒs.ʃaɪər/; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Rois), or the County of Ross, was a county in the Scottish Highlands. It bordered Sutherland to the...
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Fordyce 1857–1870 (Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland, 1870–1874) For Sutherland after 1870 see Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland George Hunter...
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Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms "Sheriffs of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland". Dornoch Historylinks. Retrieved 25 October 2017. "No. 15955"...
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the 1975 reforms were Caithness to the north-east and Ross and Cromarty to the south. The Sutherland lieutenancy area was redefined in 1975 to be the local...
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county of Ross in 1889 to form the county of Ross and Cromarty. The area is now part of the Highland council area. The western and eastern parts of Ross are...
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Cromarty ( /ˈkrɒmərti/ ; Scottish Gaelic: Cromba, IPA: [ˈkʰɾɔumpə]) is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland...
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the office became the Sheriff of Inverness, Elgin & Nairn in 1882 and the Sheriff of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty in 1946. That sheriffdom...
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William Oliver of Dinlabyre 1807–>1861: William Oliver Rutherfurd of Edgerston John Cheyne, 1885-1886 (Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland, 1886–89) Andrew...
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and Ross, Nairne, Cromarty, Argyle, Fyfe and Kinross, Forfar (i.e. Angus), Bamf (i.e. Banff), Sutherland, Caithnes, Elgine (i.e. Moray), Orkney and Zetland...
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Caithness (redirect from County of Caithness)
of age and upwards. Of these 1,248 were born in Caithness, 273 in Sutherland, 77 in Ross & Cromarty, and 87 elsewhere.... By an examination of the age...
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Cromarty & Sutherland becoming vacant Ross & Cromarty and Inverness Moray (formerly called Elgin) and Nairn united as the Sheriffdom of Inverness, Moray...
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Dornoch (redirect from Dornoch, Sutherland)
part of the Caithness, Sutherland and Ross constituency. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election...
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the Scottish Highlands and in particular in the former counties of Caithness, Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty. The majority of the larger lochs are linear...
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2023. Union of Sheriffdoms Order 1946 S.I.1946/1037 (S.40): On the Sheriffdom of Ross, Cromarty & Sutherland becoming vacant Ross & Cromarty and Inverness...
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Tain Tolbooth (redirect from Tain Sheriff Court)
of Alexander Wallace who was Honorary Sheriff Substitute for Ross and Cromarty and Sutherland. List of listed buildings in Tain, Highland List of Category...
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Inverness-shire (redirect from County of Inverness)
century, there were sheriffs at Cromarty and Dingwall in Ross, but the extent of their control was fairly limited, with the Sheriff of Inverness still responsible...
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Kincardine, Aberdeen, Inverness, Nairn, Cromarty, Argyll, Forfarshire, Banff, Sutherland, Caithness, Elgine, Ross, and Orkney. Normally a crime had to be tried...
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counties of cities in Scotland. These four burghs were counties of cities, being independent from the surrounding counties for all judicial and local government...
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succeeded to the Cromarty estates including Glastullich. Andrew MacCulloch of Tain, a merchant and sea captain who traded between Scotland and Sweden, was...
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Strathcarron, Highland (redirect from Achintee, Wester Ross)
of the Rosses". There was afterwards universal feeling among the people of Ross-shire and Sutherlandshire that the sheriff's conduct was reckless and...
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John Cheyne (advocate) (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. He became Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland in 1886, transferring...
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Evanton (category Populated places in Ross and Cromarty)
103 W.J.Watson, Place-Names of Ross and Cromarty, (Inverness, 1904), p. 85. W.J. Watson, Place-Names of Ross and Cromarty, (Inverness, 1904), p. 87. "Evanton...
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Bonar Bridge (category Buildings and structures in Sutherland)
Bonar. The estuary (downstream) and the rivers (upstream) separate Sutherland from Ross and Cromarty to the south, and the estuary opens into the Dornoch...
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Coigach (category Ross and Cromarty)
and Cromarty shall cease to be separate counties, and shall be united for all purposes whatsoever, under the name of the county of Ross and Cromarty"...
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William the Lion (redirect from William the Lion, king of Scotland)
castles, north of the Beauly and Cromarty Firths: one on the Black Isle at Ederdour; and the other at Dunkeath, near the mouth of the Cromarty Firth opposite...
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Registration county (category Counties of the United Kingdom)
There are two paired counties that were under a single sheriff in 1868: Ross & Cromarty and Orkney & Zetland. The 1868 legislation was replaced by the...
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Sheriffdom (redirect from Sheriffs of Scotland)
a sheriff principal. Since 1 January 1975, there have been six sheriffdoms. Each sheriffdom is divided into a series of sheriff court districts, and each...
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Inverness and Ross, Nairne, Cromarty, Argyle, Fyfe and Kinross, Forfar (i.e. Angus), Bamf (i.e. Banff), Sutherland, Caithnes, Elgine (i.e Moray), Orkney and Zetland...
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