Lord Lieutenant of Galway explained

This is a list of people who have held the post of Lord Lieutenant of County Galway.

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 and was abolished in 1922, when Galway ceased to be part of the United Kingdom.

Governors

• William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty
• Denis Daly: –1791
• Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 1792–1797
• Joseph Henry Blake, 1st Baron Wallscourt: 1798–1803
• Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty: 1802^[2] –1831^[3]
• John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort: 1812–1817^[4]
• Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort: 1814–1831^[4]

Lord Lieutenants

• The 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 7 October 1831 – 10 April 1874
• The 3rd Baron Clonbrock: 28 May 1874 – June 1892
• The 4th Baron Clonbrock: 13 June 1892 – 12 May 1917
• The 2nd Baron Killanin: 17 April 1918 – 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. P. J. Jupp, TRENCH, Hon. Richard (1767-1837), of Garbally, co. Galway. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, (1986).
3. The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
4. Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Gort, Viscount (I, 1816). Accessed 31 December 2018.