Lord Lieutenant of Roscommon explained

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of County Roscommon.

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. Roscommon was lost to the United Kingdom in 1922 upon the formation of the Irish Free State.

Governors

• Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston: 1772–1797 ^[2]
• Maurice Mahon, 1st Baron Hartland (died 1819)
• Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet: 1782–1797^[3]
• Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon:^[4] 1797–1813
• Thomas Mahon, 2nd Baron Hartland: –1831^[5]
• Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton: –1831^[5]
• Arthur French: 1821–1831^[6]

Lord Lieutenants

• The 1st Viscount Lorton: 7 October 1831 – 20 November 1854
• The 1st Baron de Freyne: 18 December 1854 – 29 September 1856
• Edward King Tenison: 4 December 1856 – 19 June 1878
• Edward Robert King-Harman: 5 October 1878 – 10 June 1888
• The 8th Earl of Kingston: 25 July 1888 – 13 January 1896
• Charles Owen O'Conor, The O'Conor Don: 5 March 1896 – 30 June 1906
• Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor: 5 September 1906 – 23 February 1917
• William John Talbot: 25 August 1917 – 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. Web site: Irish Counties. worldleadersindex.org.
3. E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (2002) vol. III, p. 539.
4. [Robert Beatson|Beatson]
5. The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
6. Stephen Farrell, FRENCH, Arthur II (?1788-1856), of French Park, co. Roscommon in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).