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
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*1806–1819:
Sir Cornelius Cuyler
*1819–1827:
Sir David Baird
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*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
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*1829–1833: John Sulivan Wood
References
{{Governors of Ireland
History of County Cork
Kinsale