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 ...

of Queen'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. Appointments to the position ended with the creation of the

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in 1922.

Governors

Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath (c. 1610 – 17 December 1661) was an Anglo-Irish peer, the son of Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, and Dorothea Cuffe, the former being an English veteran of the Battle of Kinsale (1601) who subsequently ...

: July–December 1661 *

William Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow William Henry Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow (died 22 August 1779) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Dawson was the son of Ephraim Dawson of Queen's County and Anne Preston, daughter and heiress of Samuel Preston. Between 1733 and 1760, Daws ...

: 1750–1779 *

John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington Earl of Portarlington is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1785 for John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington, who had earlier represented Portarlington in the Irish House of Commons. He was the son of William Dawson, 1st Visco ...

: –1774 *

Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda Field Marshal Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda (29 June 1730 – 22 December 1822), styled Viscount Moore from 1752 until 28 October 1758 and then Earl of Drogheda until 2 July 1791, was an Irish peer and later a British peer, and milita ...

: 1774–1799; again in 1805 * William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough: 1783David R. Fisher
WELLESLEY POLE, Hon. William (1763-1845), of 3 Savile Row, Mdx.
in ''

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: the House of Commons 1820-1832'' (2009).–1831 *

Charles Coote, 2nd Baron Castle Coote Charles Henry Coote, 2nd Baron Castle Coote PC (25 August 1754 – 22 January 1823), known as Charles Coote until 1802, was an Irish politician. Background and education A member of the Coote family headed by the Earl of Mountrath, Coote was t ...

: Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. III
p. 373
–1823 * Thomas Cosby: –1831''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831
p. 389

Lord Lieutenants

* The Viscount de Vesci 17 October 1831 – 19 October 1855 * The Lord Castletown 17 November 1855 – 22 January 1883 * The Viscount de Vesci 28 March 1883 – December 1900 * Sir Algernon Coote, Bt 28 December 1900 – 22 October 1920 * Sir Hutcheson Poë, Bt 11 November 1920 – 1922

References

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