Lord Deputy of Ireland
TheLord Deputywas the representative of the monarch and head of the Irishexecutiveunder English rule, during theLordship of Irelandand then theKingdom of Ireland.[1]He deputised prior to 1523 for theViceroy of Ireland.The plural form isLords Deputy.
List of Lords Deputy[edit]
Lordship of Ireland[edit]
- SirThomas de la Dale(1365–1366)
- SirThomas Mortimer(1382–1383)
- Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare(1454–1459)
- William Sherwood(1462)
- Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond(1463–1467)
- John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester(1467–1468)
- Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare(1468–1475)
- William Sherwood(1475–1477)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare(1477)
- Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor(1478–1479)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare(1479–?1494)
- Walter Fitzsimon,Archbishop of Dublin(1492)
- Robert Preston, 1st Viscount Gormanston(1493–1494)
- Edward Poynings(1494–1496)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare(1496–1513)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare(1513–1518)
- Sir Maurice Fitzgerald[2]
- Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey(1520–1522)[3]
- Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde(1522–1524)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare(1524–1529)
- SirWilliam Skeffington(1529–1532)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1532–1534)
- SirWilliam Skeffington(1534–1535)
- Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane(1536–1540)
Kingdom of Ireland[edit]
- Anthony St Leger(1540–1548)
- Edward Bellingham(1548–1549)
- Lord Justices(1549–1550)
- Anthony St Leger(1550–1551)
- James Croft(1551–1552)
- Lord Justices(1552–1553)
- Anthony St Leger (1553–1556)
- Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex(1556–1558) (Lord Lieutenant 1560–1564)[4]
- Sir Nicholas Arnold(1564–1565)
- SirHenry Sidney(1565–1571) (1575–1578)[5]
- William FitzWilliam(1571–1575) (1588–1594)
- Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton(1580–1582)
- SirJohn Perrot(1584–1588)
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh(1594–1597)
- Thomas Burgh, 7th Baron Strabolgi(1597)
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex(Lord Lieutenant 1599)
- Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy (later 1st Earl of Devonshire)(1600–1603) (Lord Lieutenant 1603–1604)
- Sir George Cary(1603–1604)
- Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester(1605–1616)[6]
- Sir Oliver St John(1616–1622)[7]
- Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland(1622–1629)
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford(1632–1640)
- Christopher Wandesford(1640)
- Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester(1640–1643) (Lord Lieutenant)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond(1644–1650) (Lord Lieutenant)
- Henry Ireton(1650–1651)
- Charles Fleetwood(1652–1657)
- Henry Cromwell(1657–1658) (Lord Lieutenant 1658–1659)
- Edmund Ludlow(1659–1660)
- George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle(1660–1661)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde(1662–1668)
- Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory(1668–1669)
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor(1669–1670)
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton(1670–1672)
- Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex(1672–1677)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde(1677–1682)
- Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran(1682–1684)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde(1684–1685)
- Lords Justices:24 February 1685
- Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon(1685–1687)
- Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell(1687–1688)
The title subsequently becameLord Lieutenant of Ireland,with the holder also known informally as the Viceroy.
References[edit]
- ^"Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban".The Gentleman's Journal.41.Printed by F. Jefferies: 49. January–June 1854.Archivedfrom the original on 31 March 2017.Retrieved23 August2008.
Counsel's Fees
- ^The Chronological Historian
- ^Creighton, Mandell (1891)..InLee, Sidney(ed.).Dictionary of National Biography.Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 64–67.
- ^Wagner, John,Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World,Oryx, 1999, p. 252
- ^Wagner, John,Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World,Oryx, 1999, p. 278
- ^Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989).A New History of Ireland.8:A Chronology of Irish History.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 74
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