page_title: High Sheriff of Down
section_title: High Sheriffs
hierarchical_section_title: High Sheriff of Down / High Sheriffs
caption_attribution_description: Men of the Day No.140: Caricature of Viscount Newry And Mourie. Caption reads: "amateur theatricals"
context_page_description: The High Sheriff of Down is the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Down. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became annually appointed from the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Besides his judicial importance, he has ceremonial and administrative functions and executes High Court Writs.
context_section_description: 1610: Richard West
  1620: Nicholas Ward
  1624: Nicholas Ward
  1641: Peter Hill
  1655: James Trail
  1656: Bernard Ward (son of Nicholas HS 1620)
  1657: Roger West (son of Richard HS 1610)
  1661: Robert Ward (son of Bernard HS 1656)
  1662: Nicholas Ward (son of Bernard HS 1656)
  1667: Robert Ward
  1669: William Waring of Waringstown
  1670: William Montgomery
  1675: John Hawkins of Rathfriland 
  1690: Bernard Ward (killed in duel, 1690)
  1699: John Haltridge
caption: Francis Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey H.S. 1871 Published in Vanity Fair in 1876.
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