High Sheriff of Anglesey
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This is a list of High Sheriffs of Anglesey. Following the conquest of Wales by Edward I Anglesey
Anglesey
Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

 was created a county of Wales under the terms of the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284. In 1974 it became a district of the new large county of Gwynedd
Gwynedd
Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated...

, until in the 1996 reform of local government, when it was restored as a local government county but remaining in the shrievalty of Gwynedd.

1284–1499

  • 20 March 1284: Sir Roger de Puleston of Emral
  • 16 September 1295: Thomas de Aunvers
  • 1 April 1300: John de Havering
  • Michaelmas 1301: Walter de Wynton
  • Michaelmas 1302: Henry de Dynynton
  • Michaelmas 1305: Griffin ap Oweyn
  • Michaelmas 1308: Madoc Thloyt
  • 4 March 1312: John de Sapy
  • 8 August 1316: Eman ap Jevan
  • 1396: Gwilym ap Griffydd of Penmynydd


16th century

17th & 18th century

19th century

20th century

  • 1900: Richard Bennett, of Beaumaris
  • 1901: William Jones, of Llwydiarth Fawr, Llanerchymedd
  • 1902: Russell Allen, of Beaumaris
  • 1903: Robert Williams Roberts, of Craig Owen, Menai Bridge
  • 1904: William Glynne Massey, of Cornelyn, Beaumaris
  • 1905: John Prichard-Jones
    John Prichard-Jones
    Sir John Prichard-Jones, 1st Baronet was born at Tyn-y-Coed, a small farm at Newborough, Anglesey. When he was fourteen he was apprenticed to a draper in Caernarfon and afterwards moved to Pwllheli, then Bangor and eventually, when he was nineteen, to London.In 1872 he entered the firm of Dickins,...

    , of Bron Menai, Dwyrau
  • 1906:
  • 1913: The Hon. Arthur Lyulph Stanley, of Penrhos, Holyhead
  • 1917: Henry Grayson
    Henry Grayson
    Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Mulleneux Grayson, 1st Baronet KBE was an English shipbuilder.Grayson was born in Birkenhead. He was educated at Winchester College and entered the family shipbuilding and ship-repairing firm, H. & C. Grayson Ltd, which had been founded on the River Mersey in 1760 and...

  • 1950: Sir Charles Michael Robert Vivian Duff, Bt., of Vaynol Park, Bangor, Caernarvon, and Trefarthen, Anglesey

  • for 1974 onwards see High Sheriff of Gwynedd
    High Sheriff of Gwynedd
    The office of High Sheriff of Gwynedd was established in 1974 as part of the creation of the county of Gwynedd in Wales following the Local Government Act 1972, and effectively replaced the shrievalties of the amalgamated counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire.- High Sheriffs of...

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