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  • The High Sheriff of Antrim is the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Antrim. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the...
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    William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    same year as High Sheriff of Antrim and subsequently of County Down. In February 1900 he was elected President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United...
    14 KB (1,167 words) - 20:36, 1 July 2024
  • language enthusiast, nationalist, and politician John MacNeill, High Sheriff of Antrim in 1843 under Queen Victoria John MacNeill, mechanical engineer...
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  • Antrim from 1768 to 1775, and served as High Sheriff of Antrim in 1771. At this time Sir John Blaquiere wrote of him as "an idle, unsteady young man, not...
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  • Sir Hercules Langford, 1st Baronet (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1661 and was High Sheriff of Meath in 1677. A devout Presbyterian, Langford was removed from the Commission of the Peace...
    2 KB (151 words) - 14:00, 30 June 2023
  • William Henry Holmes Lyons (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    Holmes Lyons PC (Ire) JP DL (31 July 1843 – 27 March 1924) was the High Sheriff of Antrim in 1904. He was a political leader who fought to maintain the union...
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    appointed Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland. In 1953 he served as High Sheriff of Antrim. He was elevated...
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  • Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    North Antrim. In 1969, he briefly served as Minister of Education before becoming the Minister of Agriculture. In 1958, he was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim...
    6 KB (195 words) - 16:21, 19 April 2024
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    (County Antrim) List of townlands in County Antrim List of civil parishes of County Antrim Lord Lieutenant of Antrim High Sheriff of Antrim Wikimedia...
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  • James Graham Leslie (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    family seat at Leslie Hill, Ballymoney, County Antrim from his uncle. He was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1907. Leslie studied at Gray's Inn and briefly...
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    Arthur Dobbs (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    construction of the Irish Parliament House in Dublin, as well as other Irish public buildings. He was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1720, and in...
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  • Charles Lanyon (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    served as Deputy Lieutenant for County Antrim and was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1876. He was also a Justice of the Peace for many years. His other...
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  • Anthony Traill (college provost) (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    over land tenure reform. In 1884, he was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim. He also became the chairman of the world's first electric tramway, Portrush, founded...
    3 KB (247 words) - 14:56, 5 March 2024
  • William Macartney (1714–1793) (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Belfast)
    the younger son of Isaac Macartney, High Sheriff of Antrim in 1690, and his wife Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Haltridge of Dromore. His elder...
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  • Robert Chichester (politician) (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    appointed High Sheriff of Antrim for 1911. He was Justice of the Peace (JP) for Counties Donegal, Antrim and Londonderry. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant...
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  • Danny Kinahan (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    Member of Parliament (MP) for South Antrim from 2015 to 2017. Additionally, Kinahan was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for South Antrim from...
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  • Edmond Alexander MacNaghten (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    before sitting again for Antrim until 1830. MacNaghten was High Sheriff of County Antrim from 1793–4, became a trustee of the Irish Linen Board in 1810...
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  • Robert Colville (Irish MP) (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    He wielded great political influence in County Down, serving as High Sheriff of Antrim in 1670 and receiving a knighthood in 1676. Throughout his career...
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  • Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1924 to 1950, and was admitted to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland in 1931. He served as High Sheriff of Antrim...
    4 KB (252 words) - 02:04, 13 June 2023
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    Henry Vane-Tempest (category High Sheriffs of Antrim)
    was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1805. Vane-Tempest inherited his father's baronetcy in 1794. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Durham volunteer...
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