Governor of Kinsale explained

The governor of Kinsale was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Kinsale and Charles Fort in County Cork. The office became a sinecure and in 1833 was to be abolished from the next vacancy.

List of governors of Kinsale and Charles Fort

Governors

• 1690: Charles Churchill
• 1693: The Earl of Inchiquin
• 1719: Lord Harry Powlett
• 1723: Humphrey Gore
• 1726: Gervais Parker
• 1739–1740: John Ligonier
• 1749: Robert Frazer
• Philip Anstruther
• 1759–1764: John Folliott
• 1765–1770: The Earl of Drogheda
• 20 March 1770: James Gisborne
• 8 September 1770–1801: The Lord Rossmore
• 1801–1806: William Neville Gardiner
• 1806–1819: Sir Cornelius Cuyler
• 1819–1827: Sir David Baird
• 1827–1830: William Guard
• 1830–1849: Sir Warren Marmaduke Peacocke

Lieutenant-governors

James Waller (died 1702)

• Henry Hawley (died 1724)
• 1724: George Bate
• 1725: Gervais Parker
• 1747–1759: John Folliott
• –1776: Nicholas Price
• 1776– : Sir Francis James Buchanan
• 1783–1786: John Hancock
• 1786–1789: George Bernard
• 1789–1827: Arthur Browne
• 1827–1829: Sir William Inglis
• 1829–1833: John Sulivan Wood