High Sheriff of Kilkenny City
The High Sheriff of Kilkenny City was the Sovereign's judicial representative in the city of the City of Kilkenny. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became annually appointed from the Provisions of Oxford in 1258.[1] Besides his judicial importance, he had ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.[2]
High Sheriffs of Kilkenny City
- 1334-1340: John Talbot
- 1752: Edward Jollie
- 1835–1838: Benjamin Barton [3]
- 1840–1842: Benjamin Barton [3]
- 1843–1844: Sir John Blunden, 3rd Baronet [3]
- 1845: John M'Craith, of Kilkenny.[4]
- 1849: John Newport Green of Lakeaview [5]
- 1850: Richard Smithwick, of Birchfield, Kilkenny.[6]
- 1853: John Wade
- 1854: Thomas Hart [7]
- 1862: Thomas Power
- 1869: James Sullivan [3]
- 1881: Richard Colles, of Millmount [8]
- 1886: Edward Fennessy
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