• The Sheriff of Stirling was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Stirling, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. Prior...
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    Stirling Sheriff Court is a judicial building in Viewfield Place, Barnton Street, Stirling, Scotland. The building, which remains in use as a courthouse...
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  • Look up Stirling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland. Stirling may also refer to: Stirling's approximation...
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    A sheriff court (Scottish Gaelic: Cùirt an t-Siorraim) is the principal local civil and criminal court in Scotland, with exclusive jurisdiction over all...
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  • supervision of the sheriff of Stirling). His next appearance, and indeed his final appearance, is in 1266, when he witnessed another royal charter at Stirling granting...
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    Patrick de Graham (category Scottish deaths at the Battle of Dunbar (1296))
    Margaret, Maid of Norway as heir to the throne of Scotland. He was Sheriff of Stirling by 1289 and was one of John Balliol's auditors in 1292 during the competition...
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  • of James II's sister Isabella. He later served as Lord High Admiral of Scotland, sheriff of Stirling, and Keeper of Stirling Castle. The elder son of...
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  • Stirling (died 1244), Lord of Ochiltree, Justiciar of Lothian, Sheriff of Stirling, was a 13th-century Scottish noble. Stirling was the eldest son of...
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    Chamberlain of Scotland and also as the Sheriff of Stirling and Sheriff of Kincardine. He was a descendant of the Clan Fraser members deriving from Oliver...
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  • post was retitled the Sheriff of Dumbarton and Bute in 1854. Following further reorganisations the post became the Sheriff of Stirling and Dumbarton in 1871...
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  • charter issued at Stirling granting rights to Paisley Abbey. In a document dating to 1226, Muireadach is referred to as "Sheriff of Stirling". He had no legitimate...
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  • "No. 30084". The London Gazette. 22 May 1917. p. 4941. Previously Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan "No. 32791". The London Gazette. 30 January...
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  • KC, 1934–1942 (Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan, 1942–1961) Charles Mackintosh KC, 1942–1944 (Senator of the College of Justice from 1944)...
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    William Bisset (category Scottish sheriffs)
    defeated. He was the Sheriff of Clackmannan between 1303-1304 and Sheriff of Stirling between 1304-1305 and Constable of Stirling Castle between 1305 and...
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  • Frank Watt (politician) (category Scottish sheriffs)
    Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney & Zetland from 1952 until his transfer as Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan in 1961. He held that position until his...
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  • Following mergers the sheriff became the Sheriff of Clackmannan & Stirling in 1747, Sheriff of Clackmannan & Kinross in 1807 and the Sheriff of Linlithgow, Clackmannan...
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  • (Haldane), 1756–1764 ( Sheriff of Stirling and Clackmannan, 1764–70) John Erskine, June 1764-September 1764 Keith Urquhart of Meldrum and Bethelnie, 1764–1835...
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    Hardie and Baird were executed outside Stirling Tolbooth, watched by a crowd of 2,000. The Sheriff of Stirling, Ranald MacDonald, required that they make...
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    Doune Castle (category Castles in Stirling (council area))
    Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, in 1570, after a three-day blockade. George Buchanan and Duncan Nairn, Deputy Sheriff of Stirling presided over the torture...
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    second cousin, Anne Stirling. The Glaswegian Stirling family was made enormously wealthy by the slave trade in Britain, and Stirling's father in law James...
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    Strathclyde region. A Stirling and Falkirk lieutenancy area was created covering the Stirling and Falkirk districts, and the last Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire...
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  • Blantyre Simpson, QC, 1946–1952 (Sheriff of Perth and Angus, 1952–1954) Francis Clifford Watt, QC, 1952–1961 (Sheriff of Stirling, Dunbarton and Clackmannan...
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    The earliest known record of Castlecary may be from 1304 when a writ was sent from St Andrews to the sheriff of Stirling by King Edward I. It reportedly...
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    Clan Stirling is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. The Scottish town of Stirling and Stirling Castle lie at the crossroads of Scotland and this...
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  • Gervase Avenel (c.1206–c.1215?) Alexander de Stirling, Sheriff of Stirling and Walter Lindsay, Sheriff of Berwick (c.1206–c.1215?) Walter Olifard the Younger...
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  • In a charter issued at Stirling granting a salt pan to Kelso Abbey in 1143, he appeared as Tor vicecomite, Thor the Sheriff. Sometime in the following...
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    Robert Lee, Lord Lee (category Senators of the College of Justice)
    General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. From 1875 to 1877 he served as Sheriff of Stirling and Dumbarton. From 1877 to 1880 he was Sheriff of Perthshire...
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  • 1970, page 1078. "DEATH OF GEORGE MOIR, LL.D., LATE SHERIFF OF STIRLING". Aberdeen Journal, and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland. 26 October...
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  • Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí (category Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of Scotland)
    records, as John Lamberton, Sheriff of Stirling is reported to have incurred expenses for the upkeep of "vigilant men" at Stirling Castle for the time when...
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  • William Tait (MP) (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    Advocate Depute in 1787 and Sheriff of Stirling and Clackmannan in 1790. In 1790 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was...
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