Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland

The position of the sheriff of Cromarty was a heritable position. • William de Monte Alto (1266) • William de Monte Alto (1296-1304), (1305-?) • William III, Earl of Ross (c. 1345) • Adam Urquhart (1365) • William Urquhart (c.1470) • Alexander Urquhart (1497) ==Sheriffs of Ross==

• 1493: Hugh Ross of Balnagowan • 1499: David Ross of Balnagowan Position re-established 1662 • 1662–1678: Kenneth Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Seaforth • 1678–1689: Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth • 1689–1696: David Ross of Balnagowan • 1696–1706: Sir Robert Munro of Foulis • 1710–1712: Roderick Mackenzie • 1715–1722: Hugh Rose, 15th of Kilravock • c.1722–1725: Sir William Gordon, 1st Baronet • 1725–1729: Sir Robert Munro of Foulis • 1729–1732: Hugh Rose, 15th of Kilravock • 1732–1734: Hugh Rose, 16th of Kilravock ==Sheriffs of Ross and Cromarty (1748)==

• 1748–1772: Hugh Rose of Geddes • 1850–1851: George Deas • 1855–1859: George Moir • 1859–1869: Alexander Shank Cook • 1869–1870: Alexander Moncrieff ==Sheriffs of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland (1870)==

• 1870–1874: George Dingwall Fordyce • 1875–1876: John Macdonald • 1877–1881: John Pettigrew Wilson • 1889–1890: Alexander Low (Sheriff of Perth, 1891) • 1891–1898: Henry Johnston • 1900-1907: Charles John Guthrie, KC • 1946: Ross and Cromarty merged into the new sheriffdom of Inverness, Moray, Nairn & Ross & Cromarty. Sutherland merged into Sheriffdom of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney & Zetland ==See also==