The High Sheriff of Westmeath was the British Crown’s judicial representative in County Westmeath

County Westmeath

-Economy:Westmeath has a strong agricultural economy. Initially, development occurred around the major market centres of Mullingar, Moate, and Kinnegad. Athlone developed due to its military significance, and its strategic location on the main Dublin–Galway route across the River Shannon. Mullingar...

, Ireland from its creation under The Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act of 1543 until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Westmeath County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord-Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not fulfil his entire term through death or other event and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given hereunder are the dates of appointment. The following is an incomplete list: all addresses are in County Westmeath unless stated otherwise.

George II, 1727–1760

• 1728: Hon. Humphrey Butler
• 1729: Herbert Price
• 1729: Major Charles Hampson
• 1730: Herbert Price
• 1731: Charles Lyons of Ledeston
• 1732: Hugh Wilton
• 1733: Sir Henry Tuite, 6th Bt., of Sonna
• 1734: William Handcock
  William Handcock (Westmeath politician)
  William Handcock was an Irish politician.Originally from Lancashire, Handcock entered the Irish House of Commons in 1661, holding his seat for Westmeath until 1666. He was then appointed to the Council of Connaught and in 1680, he received a grant to erect a manor in Twyford, Westmeath...
  
  
• 1735: John Gay
• 1736: Judge Rochfort
• 1737: William Sherlock
• 1738: Henry Pilkington
• 1739: Ebenezer Lowe
• 1740: Nicholas Ogle
• 1741: Thomas Pakenham
• 1742: Edmond Hill
• 1743: Robert Cooke
• 1744: Isaac Smith
• 1745: Edmond Reynell
• 1746: Thomas Smyth of Drumcree
• 1747: Hans Widman Wood of Rosmead
• 1748: John Smith
• 1749: Edward Magan
• 1750: Arthur Judge
• 1751: Benjamin Chapman
• 1752: Morgan Daly
• 1753: Duke Tyrrell
• 1754: Hugh Maguire
• 1755: Samuel Lowe
• 1756: Edmond Malone of Baronston
• 1757: Edmond Malone of Baronston
• 1758: John Nugent
• 1759: Arthur Magan
• 1760: Richard Sterne Tighe

George III, 1760–1820

• 1761: Thomas Adderly
• 1762: Hon. Lord Belfield
• 1763: Hon. Lord Newtown
• 1764: Sir Richard Levinge, 4th Bt.
• 1765: Hon. Richard Rochfort Mervyn
• 1766: Ralph Smith
• 1767: Joseph Daly
• 1768: Daniel Chenevix
• 1769: George Boleyn Whitney
• 1770: William Smith
• 1771: Thomas Fetherston
• 1772: George Paul Monk
• 1773: Peter Delemar
• 1774: Sir William Pigot Piers, 5th Bt., of Tristernagh Abbey, co. Westmeath
• 1775: George Tyrrell
• 1776: Robert Hodson, later Sir Robert Hodson, 1st Baronet of Tuitestown, now Greenpark
• 1777: Hon. Robert Rochfort
• 1778: John Lyons, of Ledeston, co. Westmeath
• 1779: John Reynell
• 1780: Richard Malone
• 1781: Cuthbert Fetherston
• 1782: William Fetherston
• 1783: John Meares
• 1784: James Fetherston
• 1785: Hon. Robert Moore
• 1786: Henry Widman Wood
• 1787: Philip Batty
• 1788: Henry Purdon
• 1789: Mark Synnott and James Caulfield Browne
• 1790: Ralph Smyth
• 1791: Sir Charles Levinge, 5th Bt.
• 1792: Thomas Hutchinson Smyth
• 1793: William Smyth, of Barbavilla
• 1794: Sterne Tighe, of Carrick
• 1795: Henry Cope
• 1796: Gustavus Hume Rochfort
• 1797: Maurice O'Connor
• 1798: Dillon Pollard
• 1799: James Nugent of Clonlost
• 1800: Edward J. Briscoe
• 1801: Thomas Fitzgerald Nugent
• 1802: Alexander Murray
• 1803: Joseph Morgan Daly
• 1804: Henry Daniel
• 1805: Theobald Fetherston-Haugh
• 1806: Robert Cooke
• 1807: James Gibbons
• 1808: Sir Richard Levinge, 6th Bt.
• 1809: George Purdon
• 1810: Walter Nugent
• 1811: Robert Purdon
• 1812: William Dutton Pollard of Kinturk and Castle Pollard
• 1813: Ralph Smyth
• 1814: John Middleton Berry of Middleton
• 1815: Robert Handcock Temple
• 1816: John Charles Lyons, of Ledeston
• 1817: James Gibbons, jnr
• 1818: Peter Purdon
• 1819: Richard M. Reynell
• 1820: William Henry Magan

George IV, 1820–1830

• 1821: Richard Handcock, Junior
• 1822: Hugh Morgan Tuite
• 1823: Robert Smyth, of Drumcree
• 1824: Thomas James Fetherston-Haugh, of Bracklyn Castle
• 1825: Anthony J. Doppling of Lowtown
• 1826: Thomas S. Whitney
• 1827: Sir Robert Arair Hodson, 2nd Bt., of Holybrooke House, co. Wicklow
• 1828: Daniel or David James Hearne
• 1829: Gustavus Lambert
• 1830: Robert Smyth, of Gaybrook

William IV, 1830–1837

• 1831: Hon. Augustus Caulfeild Browne
• 1832: William Barlow Smythe of Barbavilla
• 1833: Edward Briscoe of Grangemore
• 1834: R. W. Cooper
• 1835: Sir Percy Fitzgerald Nugent, 1st Bt.
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  , of Donore
• 1836: William Chapman
• 1837: John Ennis

Victoria, 1837–1901

• 1838: James Nugent, Count of Holy Roman Empire
• 1839: Richard Winter Reynell, of Killynon
• 1840: William Pollard
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   of Kinturk
• 1841: Cuthbert Fetherston-Haugh
• 1842: Hercules Robinson, R.N. of Rosmead
• 1843: George Augustus Boyd of Middleton Park
• 1844: Sir Montague Lowther Chapman, 3rd Bt., of Killua Castle
• 1845: Hon. Laurence Harman King-Harman of Newcastle
• 1846: Hon. Laurence Harman King-Harman and Sir George Frederick John Hodson, 3rd Bt., of Holybrooke House, co. Wicklow
• 1847: Richard Steel Fetherston-Haugh
• 1848: James William Middleton Berry
• 1849: Lt-Col. John Caulfeild
• 1850: Sir John Hugh Nugent, 3rd Bt., of Ballinlough
• 1851: Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge, 7th Bt.
• 1852: John Richard Malone of Baronston
• 1853: Charles Brinsley Marlay (later Rochfort), J.P., D.L.,, of Belvedere
• 1854: Sir Francis Hopkins, 2nd Baronet of Athboy
• 1855:
• 1856: Benjamin James Chapman, 4th Baronet of Lillua
• 1857:
• 1858: Thomas James Smyth of Ballynegall
• 1859:
• 1860: Hon. Robert Reginald Temple Harris
• 1861: Hon. Henry William Parnell, later 3rd Baron Congleton
• 1862: John Devenish Meares, of Meare's Court, Moyvore
• 1863:
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• 1865:
• 1866: John James Ennis, later 2nd Bt.
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  , of Balinahoun Court, co. Athlone
• 1867: Francis Hume Kelly
• 1868:
• 1869:
• 1870:
• 1871: Hon. George Mostyn
• 1872:
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• 1874:
• 1875: Joshua Harry Cooper
• 1876:
• 1877:
• 1878: William Edward Smyth of Glananea
• 1879:
• 1880: Captain Crofton Thomas Burton Vandeleur, of Wordenstown
• 1881: Henry Loftus Lewis of Violetstown
• 1882: Francis Travers Dames-Longsworth, Q.C.
• 1883:
• 1884: Hon. Patrick Emilius John Greville-Nugent, of Clonyn Castle
• 1885:
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• 1887:
• 1888: William Lyster Smythe
• 1889: Montagu Richard Chapman, 5th Baronet of Killua
• 1890: Cecil Howard Digby Fetherstonhaugh
• 1890: Francis Vansittart Chapman
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• 1894: William Edward Wilson
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  , FRS of Daramona
• 1895:
• 1896: Col. John Richard Malone, of Baronston
• 1897:
• 1898:
• 1899: Captain the Hon. Ronald Fulke Greville
• 1900:
• 1901: Lt-Col. Francis Edward Romulus Pollard-Urquhart, of Castle Pollard

Edward VII, 1901–1910

• 1902:
• 1903:
• 1904: George Arthur Boyd-Rochfort
• 1905: John David Featherstonhaugh
• 1906: Charles Brinsley Marlay (later Rochfort), of Belvedere, J.P., D.L.,
• 1907:
• 1908:
• 1909: Major Gerald Dease
• 1910: Gustavus Rochfort Wade (later Hyde)

George V, 1910–1922

• 1911:
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• 1914:
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• 1916:
• 1917:
• 1918: Henry Maxwell Smyth, of Drumcree House
• 1919:
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• 1922: