Sheriff of Berwick
# Sheriff of Berwick

The Sheriff of Berwick was historically a royal official, who was responsible for enforcing justice in Berwickshire, Scotland. 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.

The sheriffdom was merged into the new sheriffdom of Haddington and Berwick in 1856.

## Sheriffs of Berwick

* Norman (1147)
* Walter de Lindsay (1206)
* Robert of Upsettlington (1220)
* Ingram de Balliol (1228)
* William de Lindsay (c. 1230)
* David de Graham (1236)
* John Maxwell
* David de Graham (1264)
* Hugh de Berkeley (1266)
* John de Soulis (1288)
* William Lindsay
* Richard Fraser
* Osbert of Spaldington (1295-1297)
* John de Burdon (1300-1302)
* Edmund Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (1312)
* John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (1325)
* Hugh Gifford (1329)
* Robert Lauder (1330)
* John I Preston, Baron of Craigmillar (c. 1420)
* Patrick Nesbit (1437)
* Walter de Halyburton
* John de Halyburton (1447)
   * Alexander Hume (1447) - Deputy
* Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre (1450)
* Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes (1470)
* Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell (1480)
* Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell (1511)
* Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont (1690–1710)
* Alexander, Earl of Home (1710-1715)
* Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont (1715-1724)
* Alexander, Earl of Marchmont (1724-)

### Sheriffs-Depute

* George Ker, 1755– (first Sheriff-depute of modern era)
* David Hume of Ninewells, 1783–1793 (Sheriff of Linlithgow, 1793–1811)
* John Swinton, 1793–1809
* David Douglas of Reston, 1809–1813
* William Boswell, <1819–1840
* Robert Bell 1841–1856 (Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick, 1856)
* For sheriffs after 1856 see Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick
