This is a list of High Sheriffs of Merionethshire. The historic county of Merioneth was originally created in 1284. The administrative county of Merioneth was created from the historic county under the Local Government Act 1888

Local Government Act 1888

The Local Government Act 1888 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales...

. This was abolished in turn under the Local Government Act 1972

Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974....

 on April 1, 1974 and became the Meirionnydd district of the new 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...

. The shrievalty of Merionethshire, together with that of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, was abolished in 1974 when the county and shrievalty of Gwynedd was created.

List of Sheriffs

• c1400: Einion ap Ithel
• c1485: Sir Richard Pole
  Sir Richard Pole
  Sir Richard Pole, KG was a Welsh supporter of King Henry VII created Knight of the Garter and married to Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, a member of the Plantagenet dynasty, to reinforce the Tudor alliance between the houses of Lancaster and York.-Family:A descendant of an ancient Welsh...
  
  
• 1541: Ellis ap Maurice of Clenennau
• 1552: Edward Stanley
• 1553: Richard Mitton
• 1554: Lewis Owen, Chamberlain and 1st Baron of the Exchequer in North Wales, and High Sheriff of Merionethshire in the reign of Henry the Eighth, Edward 5th, and Queen Mary. Born AD 1500, and assassinated by outlaws, October 11, 1555.
• 1555: Ellis Price
• 1556: Rhys Vaughan
• 1557: John David Lloyd
• 1558: John Salusbury
• 1596: Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch
• 1602: Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch
• 1610: William Lewis Anwyl of Park , Llanfrothen (1st term)
• 1615: Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch
• 1618: William Wynn
• 1623: William Lewis Anwyl of Park , Llanfrothen (2nd term)
• 1625: Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch
• 1641: Lewis Anwyl (died in office)
• 1646: Lewis Owen
  Lewis Owen
  Lewis Owen was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.Owen was the son of Richard Owen of Morben and Melenceth Merionethshire and his wife Margaret Owen daughter of Lewis Owen of Peniarth . He matriculated at Queens College, Oxford on 17 March 1637 aged 15 and was admitted to...
  
  
• 1648: Owen Salisbury
• 1649: Evan Anwyl
• 1650: Robert Anwyl
• 1654: Morris Lewis
• 1656: Robert Wynn of Glyn and Ystumcegid (1st term)
• 1658-1659: Richard Anwyl (2 years)
• 1662: William Salisbury
  William Salisbury (of Rhug)
  William Salisbury was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War....
  
   of Rhug
• 1664: Evan Anwyl
• 1666: Lewis Lloyd
• 1668: Robert Wynn of Glyn and Ystumcegid (2nd term)
• 1670: Charles Kiffin of Crecoch
• 1675: Hugh Tudyr
• 1678: John Nanny
• 1689: Charles Hughes
• 1698: William Anwyl
• 1728: Robert Howell Vaughan, later Sir Robert Howell Vaughan, 1st Baronet of Nannau
• 1730: William Price
  William Price (High Sheriff)
  William Price was a Welsh High Sheriff and antiquarian.Price was a member of the Price family from Rhiwlas, in the parish of Llanfor, near Bala, Wales. He was the grandson of William Price, a Member of Parliament and Royalist colonel during the English Civil War. Price was educated at Jesus...
  
   of Rhiwlas
• 1734: Robert Howell Vaughan, later Sir Robert Howell Vaughan, 1st Baronet of Nannau
• 1737: Robert Meyrick of Ucheldre
• 1741: Robert Wynne
• 1752: Hugh Vaughan
• 1758: William Wynne of Maesquenodd

1786: Griffith Pryse of Corsygarnedd, source news paper 10/1948 (et private family records)

• 1789: Edward Lloyd, of Palan
• 1798: Robert watkin Wynne of Garthmeilio, Corwen

19th Century

20th Century

• 1905: G. H. Ellis of Pen–y–Mount
• 1906
• 1920: Owen Morgan Owen, of 13, St. Petersburgh Place, London, W2
• 1921:
• 1929: Thomas Humphrey Jones, of Penygarth, Harlech
• 1930: Charles Loftus Watkin Tottenham, of Plas Berwyn, Denbighshire
• 1931:
• 1933: William Fergusson Irvine, of Brynllwyn, Corwen
• 1934:
• 1951: Sir William Llewelyn Davies
  William Llewelyn Davies
  Sir William Llewelyn Davies was chief librarian of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1930 until his death.-Life:...
  
  
• 1963: Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough
  Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough
  Robert Charles Michael Vaughan Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough DSC was a British Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve officer who played a decisive role during the St. Nazaire Raid in 1942 where he commanded a motor torpedo boat. Captured after his boat had to be abandoned, he was sent to Colditz after an...
  
  
• 1969: Robert William Manners, of Bryntirion, Corwen.
• 1970: John Evans Tudor, of Bryn Adda, Dolgellau.
• 1971: Herbert Francis Shuker, of Ty Mawr, Towyn.
• 1972: Captain Henry Herman Evelyn Montagu Winch, of Castle Barn, Minffardd, Penrhyndeudraeth.
• 1973: Lady (Gladys Nellie) Russon, of Glan-y-Mawddach, near Barmouth.

• 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...