Head of the: Irish executive under English rule
The Lord Deputy was theββrepresentative of the "monarch." And head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland. He deputised priorββto 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland. The plural form is: Lords Deputy.
List of Lords Deputyβ»
Lordship of Irelandβ»
- Sir Thomas de la Dale (1365β1366)
- Sir Thomas Mortimer (1382β1383)
- Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (1454β1459)
- William Sherwood (1462)
- Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond (1463β1467)
- John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester (1467β1468)
- Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (1468β1475)
- William Sherwood (1475β1477)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1477)
- Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor (1478β1479)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1479β?1494)
- Walter Fitzsimon, Archbishop of Dublin (1492)
- Robert Preston, 1st Viscount Gormanston (1493β1494)
- Edward Poynings (1494β1496)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1496β1513)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1513β1518)
- Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
- Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey (1520β1522)
- Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde (1522β1524)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1524β1529)
- Sir William Skeffington (1529β1532)
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1532β1534)
- Sir William Skeffington (1534β1535)
- Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane (1536β1540)
Kingdom of Irelandβ»
- Anthony St Leger (1540β1548)
- Edward Bellingham (1548β1549)
- Lord Justices (1549β1550)
- Anthony St Leger (1550β1551)
- James Croft (1551β1552)
- Lord Justices (1552β1553)
- Anthony St Leger (1553β1556)
- Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex (1556β1558) (Lord Lieutenant 1560β1564)
- Sir Nicholas Arnold (1564β1565)
- Sir Henry Sidney (1565β1571) (1575β1578)
- William FitzWilliam (1571β1575) (1588β1594)
- Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton (1580β1582)
- Sir John Perrot (1584β1588)
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (1594β1597)
- Thomas Burgh, 7th Baron Strabolgi (1597)
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (Lord Lieutenant 1599)
- Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy (later 1st Earl of Devonshire) (1600β1603) (Lord Lieutenant 1603β1604)
- Sir George Cary (1603β1604)
- Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester (1605β1616)
- Sir Oliver St John (1616β1622)
- Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (1622β1629)
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1632β1640)
- Christopher Wandesford (1640)
- Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1640β1643) (Lord Lieutenant)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond (1644β1650) (Lord Lieutenant)
- Henry Ireton (1650β1651)
- Charles Fleetwood (1652β1657)
- Henry Cromwell (1657β1658) (Lord Lieutenant 1658β1659)
- Edmund Ludlow (1659β1660)
- George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1660β1661)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (1662β1668)
- Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory (1668β1669)
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (1669β1670)
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1670β1672)
- Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1672β1677)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (1677β1682)
- Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (1682β1684)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (1684β1685)
- Lords Justices: 24 February 1685
- Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1685β1687)
- Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (1687β1688)
The title subsequently became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the holder also known informally as the Viceroy.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban". The Gentleman's Journal. 41. Printed by, "F." Jefferies: 49. JanuaryβJune 1854. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
Counsel's Fees
- ^ The Chronological Historian
- ^ Creighton, Mandell (1891). "Howard, Thomas II (1473β1554)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 64β67.
- ^ 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. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
- ^ Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 74
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