This is a list of people who have held the post of

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. 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 and was abolished in 1922, when Galway ceased to be part of the

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Governors

William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty (23 June 1741 – 27 April 1805) was an Irish aristocrat and politician and later United Kingdom statesman at the time of the Act of Union. His family, through his son Richard, became prominen ...

* Denis Daly: –1791 *

Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, KP, PC (Ire) (; ; ; ; 8 January 1742 – 8 December 1797), styled Lord Dunkellin (; ) until 1782 and The Earl of Clanricarde from 1782 until 1789, was an Irish peer and politician who was MP for ...

: 1792–1797 *

Joseph Henry Blake, 1st Baron Wallscourt Joseph Henry Blake, 1st Baron Wallscourt (5 October 1765 – 28 March 1803), was an Irish politician. Blake was the eldest son of Joseph Blake and Honoria Daly, daughter of Dermot Daly. He was returned to the Irish House of Commons for County ...

: 1798–1803 *

Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of Heusden (19 May 1767 – 24 November 1837), styled The Honourable from 1797 to 1803 and then Viscount Dunlo to 1805, was an Anglo-Irish peer, a nobleman in the Dutch nobility, and ...

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TRENCH, Hon. Richard (1767-1837), of Garbally, co. Galway.
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John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort (1742 – 23 May 1817) was an Irish politician. Born John Smyth, Gort was the son of Charles Smyth, Member of the Irish Parliament for Limerick City, and Elizabeth Prendergast. His paternal grandparents ...

: 1812–1817Patrick Cracroft-Brennan
Gort, Viscount (I, 1816)
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Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort PC (Ire) (1768 – 11 November 1842), known as Charles Vereker until 1817, was an Irish soldier and politician. Background Gort was the son of Thomas Vereker by Juliana, daughter of Charles Smyth and sister o ...

: 1814–1831

Lord Lieutenants

* The 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 7 October 1831 – 10 April 1874 * The 3rd Baron Clonbrock: 28 May 1874 – June 1892 * The 4th Baron Clonbrock: 13 June 1892 – 12 May 1917 * The 2nd Baron Killanin: 17 April 1918 – 1922

References

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