Lord Lieutenant of Limerick explained

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Limerick.

There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors.^[1] The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831. The title Lord Lieutenant was always pronounced as 'Lord Lef-tenant'.

Governors

• William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell: 1689–1691 (died 1691)^[2]
• Thomas Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell: 1762– (died 1780)
• The Lord Muskerry:^[3] 1780–1818
• The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon: 1818–1831^[4]

Lord Lieutenants

• The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon (who later became, in 1851, 3rd Earl of Clare): 7 October 1831 – September 1848
• The 2nd Earl of Clare: 13 September 1848 – 13 August 1851
• The 3rd Earl of Clare: 1851 – 10 January 1864
• The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 20 February 1864 – 6 October 1871
• The 1st Baron Emly: 8 December 1871 – 20 April 1894
• Thomas Enraght O'Brien: 29 November 1894 – 18 January 1896
• The 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 5 March 1896 – 1922

References

• Web site: Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005 . Sainty . J. C. . John Sainty (civil servant) . 2008-06-07 . https://archive.today/20120804102750/http://www.history.ac.uk/office/lieutenants_ire.html . 2012-08-04 . dead .

Notes and References

1. [George Edward Cokayne|G. E. C.]
2. Barry, James Grene. The Bourkes of Clanwilliam. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Fourth Series, Vol. 9, No. 80 (July–October 1889), p.201.
3. [Robert Beatson|Beatson]
4. Stephen Farrell, FITZGIBBON, Hon. Richard Hobart (1793-1864), of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).