This is a list of '' lords lieutenants of

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

''. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.

Governors

Bryan Magennis, 5th Viscount Iveagh Bryan Magennis, 5th Viscount Iveagh (c.1655 – September 1692) was an Irish Jacobite peer and soldier. Magennis was the son of Hugh Magennis, 4th Viscount Iveagh and Rose O'Neill, and in 1684 he succeeded to his father's peerage. He was a suppor ...

1689–1691 (Jacobite) *

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, (30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793), known as The 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as The 1st Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era. Best know ...

–1793 *

Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry PC (Ire) (1739–1821), was a County Down landowner, Irish Volunteer, and member of the parliament who, exceptionally for an Ulster Scot and Presbyterian, rose within the ranks of Ireland's "Angli ...

1793–1821 Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. III
p. 371
*

James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye James Stevenson Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (8 July 1755 – 8 August 1836), styled as Sir James Blackwood, 3rd Baronet, from 1799 to 1807, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Early life and family Blackwood was born in 1755 ...

: –1831''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831
p. 389
* Robert Ward: 1805–1831 * Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry: –1831

Lord Lieutenants

* The 3rd Marquess of Downshire: 7 October 1831 – 12 April 1845 * The 4th Marquess of Londonderry: 17 May 1845 – 1864 * The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye: 13 April 1864 – 12 February 1902, later Earl of Dufferin and Marquess of Dufferin and Ava * The 6th Marquess of Londonderry: 16 April 1902 – 8 February 1915 * The 7th Marquess of Londonderry: 8 September 1915 – 11 February 1949 * The 4th Earl of Kilmorey: 2 June 1949 – 1959 * Sir Roland Nugent, 1st Bt.: 10 March 1959 – 18 August 1962 * The 6th Earl of Clanwilliam: 25 September 1962 – 1979 *Colonel

William Norman Brann William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

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, E.R.D, D.L.: 2 October 1979 – 1990 *Colonel William Stephen Brownlow: 17 August 1990 – 1996 * Sir William Joseph Hall: 10 October 1996 – 1 August 2009 * David Lindsay: 25 August 2009 – 2021 * Gawn William Rowan Hamilton: 12 May 2021 – present

Deputy lieutenants

A deputy lieutenant of County Down is commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of County Down. Deputy lieutenants support the work of the lord-lieutenant. There can be several deputy lieutenants at any time, depending on the population of the county. Their appointment does not terminate with the changing of the lord-lieutenant, but they usually retire at age 75.

21st Century

*19 May 2010: John Witchell *2 September 2016: Peter Campbell Conway *2 September 2016: Professor Neil McClure

References

* History of County Down People from County Down Down {{Ireland-bio-stub