High Sheriff Of Anglesey
This is a list of High Sheriffs of Anglesey. Following the conquest of Wales by Edward I Anglesey 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, until in the 1996 reform of local government, when it was restored as a local government county but remaining in the shrievalty of Gwynedd.
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