List of vice-admirals of Connaught explained

Unit Name:	Vice Admiral of Connaught
Type:	Naval administration
Role:	Admiralty court and Naval Jurisdiction.

This is a list of the vice-admirals of Connaught, the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland.

Prior to 1585 the whole of Ireland was served by a single vice-admiral, namely Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex (1558–1565), Gerald Fitzgerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1564–1573) and Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde (1585). Separate vice-admiralties were then established for Munster in 1585, for Ulster by 1602, for Leinster by 1612 and for Connaught by 1615.

Vice-admirals of Connaught

Source (1615–1661)^[1]

Source (1661 onwards)^[2]

• • 1615–1627 Sir Oliver St John 1628–1639 Sir George St George
• no appointment known
• 1660 Sir Oliver St George
• 1691–1695 Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet
• 1695–1696 John Eyres (Revoked 1696)
• 1696–1735 Sir George St George, 2nd Baronet
• 1735–?1741 John Ussher (died 1741)
• 1747–?1768 Stratford Eyre
• 1768–>1788 Charles Molyneux, 1st Earl of Sefton^[3] (died 1794)
• 1794– William Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton^[4] (died 1838)
• 1822– Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (died 1837)
• <1841–>1847: Marquess of Clanricarde (died 1874)
• 1889– George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan (died 1914)

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930074029/http://www.history.ac.uk/office/viceadmirals2.html#ac. Vice Admirals of the Coasts 1558–1660. dead. 30 September 2007. Institute of Historical Research. 15 February 2019.
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20060928175749/http://www.history.ac.uk/office/viceadmirals.html#x. Vice Admirals of the Coasts from 1660. dead. 28 September 2006. Institute of Historical Research. 13 February 2019.
3. Book: Kimber, Edward. The Peerage of Ireland. 2. 213.
4. Book: Stockdale, William. Stockdales Peerage of the UK for 1893. 145.