Lord Lieutenant of Louth explained

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

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.

Governors

Oliver Plunkett, 6th Baron Louth (died 1679) ^[2]
Matthew Plunkett, 7th Baron Louth

1687–1689^[3]

Viscount Limerick

1756–1758 ^[4]

James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil

1769–1798 (died 1798)

John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel 1798–1828^[5]
Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard 1805–1831 (jointly until 1828)^[6]

Lord Lieutenants

Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew 9 December 1831 – 10 December 1866
John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell 14 January 1867 – 17 April 1879
Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene 13 November 1879 – March 1898
George Bellew-Bryan, 4th Baron Bellew 14 March 1898 – 15 July 1911
Sir Alan Bellingham, 4th Baronet 4 November 1911 – 9 June 1921
Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet 22 July 1921 – 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

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Book: Debrett, John. Scotland and Ireland. 1195.
O'Sullivan . Harold . 1992 . The Jacobite Ascendancy and Williamite Revolution and Confiscations in County Louth 1684-1701 . Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society . 22 . 4 . 432 . 10.2307/27729726. 27729726 . 1 February 2023.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/hamilton-james-1691-1758 History of Parliament Online
Philip Salmon, FOSTER, John (1740-1828), of Collon, co. Louth. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).
Salmon, SKEFFINGTON (formerly FOSTER), Hon. Thomas Henry (?1772-1843), of Collon, co. Louth in The History of Parliament 1820–1832.