The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish

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under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the

Kingdom of Ireland The Kingdom of Ireland ( ga, label=Classical Irish, an Ríoghacht Éireann; ga, label= Modern Irish, an Ríocht Éireann, ) was a monarchy on the island of Ireland that was a client state of England and then of Great Britain. It existed from ...

. He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland. The plural form is ''Lords Deputy''.

List of Lords Deputy

Lordship of Ireland

*Sir Thomas de la Dale (1365-1366) *Sir Thomas Mortimer (1382–1383) * Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (1454–1459) * William Sherwood (1462) *

Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond Thomas FitzJames FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond (died 1467/68), called 'Thomas of Drogheda', and also known as the Great Earl, was the son of James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond and Mary de Burgh. He was Lord Deputy of Ireland under the Lieut ...

(1463–1467) * John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester (1467–1468) * Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (1468–1475) * William Sherwood (1475–1477) * Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1477) *

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(1478–1479) * Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1479–?1494) *

Walter Fitzsimon Walter Fitzsimon (died 1511) was a statesman and cleric in Ireland in the reign of Henry VII, who held the offices of Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Biography He was born in Dublin, the son of Robert Fitzsimon and his ...

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(1492) * Robert Preston, 1st Viscount Gormanston (1493–1494) * Edward Poynings (1494–1496) * Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1496–1513) *

Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare Gerard FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1487 – 12 December 1534; Irish: ''Gearóid Óg Mac Gearailt'', meaning "Young Gerald FitzGerald"), was a leading figure in 16th-century Irish History. In 1513 he inherited the title of Earl of Kildare an ...

(1513–1518) *Sir Maurice Fitzgerald *

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(1520–1522) *

Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1539) also known as Red Piers (Irish ''Piers Ruadh''), was from the Polestown–– branch of the Butler family of Ireland. In the succession crisis at the death of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl ...

(1522–1524) *

(1524–1529) *Sir William Skeffington (1529–1532) *Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1532–1534) *Sir William Skeffington (1534–1535) * Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane (1536–1540)

Kingdom of Ireland

* Anthony St Leger (1540–1548) * Edward Bellingham (1548–1549) *'' Lord Justices'' (1549–1550) * Anthony St Leger (1550–1551) * James Croft (1551–1552) *''Lord Justices'' (1552–1553) *Anthony St Leger (1553–1556) * Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex (1556–1558) (Lord Lieutenant 1560–1564) * Sir Nicholas Arnold (1564–1565) *Sir

Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney (20 July 1529 – 5 May 1586), Lord Deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, a prominent politician and courtier during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, from both of whom he recei ...

(1565–1571) (1575–1578) * William FitzWilliam (1571–1575) (1588–1594) * Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton (1580–1582) *Sir

John Perrot Sir John Perrot (7 November 1528 – 3 November 1592) served as lord deputy to Queen Elizabeth I of England during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. It was formerly speculated that he was an illegitimate son of Henry VIII, though the idea is re ...

(1584–1588) * William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (1594–1597) * Thomas Burgh, 7th Baron Strabolgi (1597) * Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (Lord Lieutenant 1599) * Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy (later 1st Earl of Devonshire) (1600–1603) (Lord Lieutenant 1603–1604) * Sir George Cary (1603–1604) * Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester (1605–1616) * Sir Oliver St John (1616–1622)Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 74 * Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (1622–1629) * Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1632–1640) *

Christopher Wandesford Christopher Wandesford (24 September 1592 – 3 December 1640) was an English administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629. He was Lord Deputy of Ireland in the last months of his life. Life Wandesford was ...

(1640) * Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1640–1643) (Lord Lieutenant) * James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond (1644–1650) (Lord Lieutenant) * Henry Ireton (1650–1651) * Charles Fleetwood (1652–1657) *

Henry Cromwell Henry Cromwell (20 January 1628 – 23 March 1674) was the fourth son of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier, and an important figure in the Parliamentarian regime in Ireland. Biography Early life Henry Cromwell – the fourth son of ...

(1657–1658) (Lord Lieutenant 1658–1659) *

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(1659–1660) * George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1660-1661) *

James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde Lieutenant-General James FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC (19 October 1610 – 21 July 1688), was a statesman and soldier, known as Earl of Ormond from 1634 to 1642 and Marquess of Ormond from 1642 to 1661. Following the failur ...

(1662-1668) * Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory (1668-1669) *

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(1669-1670) * John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1670-1672) * Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1672-1677) *

(1677-1682) *

Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (1639–1686) was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1682 to 1684 while James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, his father, the Lord Lieutenant, was absent in England. He sat in the Irish House of Lords as Earl of Arra ...

(1682-1684) *

(1684-1685) * ''Lords Justices'': 24 February 1685 * Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1685-1687) * Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (1687–1688) The title subsequently became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the holder also known informally as the Viceroy.

References

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