This is a list of those who have served as
Lord Lieutenant of
King's County.
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
*
Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda, 1752–1784; again in 1805
[ Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. III]
p. 372
*
Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse
Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse (21 May 1758 – 24 February 1841), known as Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bt, from 1791 to 1807, was an Irish peer.
Parsons was the son of Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet and Mary Clere. He succeeded his father i ...
, 1792–1831
[''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831]
p. 389
*
Henry Peisley L'Estrange –1831
*
Thomas Bernard, 1828
[P. J. Jupp]
BERNARD, Thomas (?1769-1834), of Castle Bernard, King's Co.
in ''The History of Parliament 1790–1820''.–1831
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Lord Lieutenants
*William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (17 June 1800 – 31 October 1867), was an Irish astronomer, naturalist, and engineer. He was president of the Royal Society (UK), the most important association of naturalists in the world in the nineteenth ...
, 7 October 1831 – 31 October 1867
* Thomas Bernard, 17 December 1867 – 13 December 1883
*Francis Travers Dames-Longworth
Francis Travers Dames-Longworth (26 April 1834 – 3 December 1898) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer.
Biography
Dames-Longworth was the son of Francis Longworth-Dames and Anna Hume. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College Dublin, and ...
, 20 March 1883 – 1892
*Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, KP, FRS (17 November 1840 – 29 August 1908) was a member of the Irish peerage and an amateur astronomer. His name is often given as Laurence Parsons.
Biography
He was born at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, Kin ...
, 13 June 1892 – 29 August 1908
*William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse
William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (14 June 1873 – 10 June 1918) was an Irish peer and British Army officer. He was known as Lord Oxmantown until 1908.
Early life
He was the son of Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse and Frances Ca ...
, 5 February 1909 – 10 June 1918
*Edward Beaumont-Nesbitt
Edward John Downing Beaumont-Nesbitt (1859 – 1 January 1944) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and official.
Biography
Beaumont-Nesbitt was the son of Rev. Thomas George Beaumont and Tamazine Bradshaw. Beaumont-Nesbitt was High Sheriff of King's Cou ...
, 3 September 1918 – 1922
References
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Kings County
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