This is a list of people who served as
Lord Lieutenant
A lord-lieutenant ( ) is the British monarch's personal representative in each lieutenancy area of the United Kingdom. Historically, each lieutenant was responsible for organising the county's militia. In 1871, the lieutenant's responsibility ...
of
County Roscommon
"Steadfast Irish heart"
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, subdi ...
.
There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of
James II James II may refer to:
* James II of Avesnes (died c. 1205), knight of the Fourth Crusade
* James II of Majorca (died 1311), Lord of Montpellier
* James II of Aragon (1267–1327), King of Sicily
* James II, Count of La Marche (1370–1438), King C ...
, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.
Roscommon was lost to the
United Kingdom in 1922 upon the formation of the
Irish Free State.
Governors
*
Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston: 1772–1797
*
Maurice Mahon, 1st Baron Hartland[ (died 1819)
* Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet: 1782–1797
* ]Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon
Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon, KP, PC (Ire) (1745–1813) conformed to the established religion in 1767.
Birth and origins
Charles was born on 6 November 1745 in London. He was the eldest child of Henry Dillon and his wife Cha ...
:[ Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. III]
p. 373
1797–1813
* Thomas Mahon, 2nd Baron Hartland: –1831[''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831]
p. 389
* Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton: –1831[
* Arthur French: 1821–1831][Stephen Farrell]
FRENCH, Arthur II (?1788-1856), of French Park, co. Roscommon
in '' The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832'' (2009).
Lord Lieutenants
* The 1st Viscount Lorton: 7 October 1831 – 20 November 1854
* The 1st Baron de Freyne: 18 December 1854 – 29 September 1856
* Edward King Tenison: 4 December 1856 – 19 June 1878
* Edward Robert King-Harman: 5 October 1878 – 10 June 1888
* The 8th Earl of Kingston: 25 July 1888 – 13 January 1896
* Charles Owen O'Conor, The O'Conor Don: 5 March 1896 – 30 June 1906
* Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor: 5 September 1906 – 23 February 1917
* William John Talbot
William is a male given name of Germanic languages, 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 Norm ...
: 25 August 1917 – 1922
References
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Roscommon
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