This is a list of people who have 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 ...

Kildare Kildare () is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. , its population was 8,634 making it the 7th largest town in County Kildare. The town lies on the R445, some west of Dublin – near enough for it to have become, despite being a regional cen ...

. 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. The main function of the office was to raise, train and manage the local militia bodies, in line with the

Militia (Ireland) Act 1802 The Militia (Ireland) Act 1802 ( 43 Geo. 3. c. 2) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom affecting the Militia, a locally raised force for home defence. It applied only to the Kingdom of Ireland, with the Militia Act 1802 and Militia (Scot ...

. Beyond that, the Lords Lieutenant had a figurehead function representing the monarch at the local level.

Governors

James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, PC (Ire) (29 May 1722 – 19 November 1773), styled Lord Offaly until 1743 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1743 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kildare between 1761 and 176 ...

1761–1773 *

William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster William Robert FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster, KP, PC (Ire) (12/13 March 1749 – 20 October 1804) was an Irish liberal politician and landowner. He was born in London. Career FitzGerald made his Grand Tour between 1768 and 1769. During th ...

1773–1804 * John Wolfe 1803–1816 *

Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, KP (5 February 1770 – 10 August 1820) was an Irish peer and politician. Partly to sustain his extravagant lifestyle, Walter gave up his hereditary right to the grant of the prisage of the wines of Ireland ...

1816–1820 Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. III
p. 372
* Lord Henry Moore 1820–1825''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1825
p. 386
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Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster Augustus Frederick FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster, etc. (21 August 1791 – 10 February/October 1874) was an Anglo-Irish peer and freemason, styled Marquess of Kildare from birth until 1804. He was born and died in Carton House. FitzGer ...

1825–1831''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831
p. 389

Lord Lieutenants

7 October 1831 – 10 October 1874 *

Henry Moore, 3rd Marquess of Drogheda The Most Hon. Henry Francis Seymour Moore, 3rd Marquess of Drogheda, KP, PC (I) (14 August 1825 – 29 June 1892), was an Irish peer, styled Viscount Moore until 1837. He was the only son of Lord Henry Seymour Moore, a younger son of Fiel ...

4 December 1874 – 29 June 1892 *

Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster (16 August 1851 – 1 December 1893) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Biography Leinster was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of The 4th Duke of Leinster and Lady Caroline Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. He married La ...

5 July 1892 – 1 December 1893 *

Robert Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, a ...

24 February 1894 – 7 October 1913 *

Sir Anthony Weldon, 6th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

2 December 1913 – 29 June 1917 *

Henry Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda (21 April 1884 – 22 November 1957) was an Anglo-Irish civil servant, British Army officer, barrister and peer. He was the son of Ponsonby Moore, 9th Earl of Drogheda and Anne Tower Moir. He ...

23 April 1918 – 1922

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