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The Board of Ordnance in 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 ...

(1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British

Board of Ordnance The Board of Ordnance was a British government body. Established in the Tudor period, it had its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities were 'to act as custodian of the lands, depots and forts required for the defence ...

: supplying arms and munitions, overseeing the Royal Irish Artillery and the Irish Engineers, and maintaining the fortifications in the island. Following the Acts of Union 1800, the Board was abolished and the duties taken over by the United Kingdom Board of Ordnance. The various officials of the Board were compensated with pensions for their loss of salary and emoluments.

Officials of the Board of Ordnance

''lists are incomplete before 1760''

Master-General of the Ordnance

Salary in 1800: £1,500 * In 1539: Sir John Travers * 1559–1587: Edward Maria Wingfield * 1588:

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* 1592: Sir George Bourchier * 1605:

Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison Sir Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (1559 – 30 December 1630) was an English soldier and politician who became Lord Deputy of Ireland. Early years He was the second son of Nicholas St John (ca. 1526 – 8 November 1589) of Lydiard Park ...

* 1614: ... * 1617:

Toby Caulfeild, 1st Baron Caulfeild Sir Toby Caulfeild, 1st Baron Caulfeild of Charlemont (1565–1627) was an English army officer active in Ireland. Life He was born on 2 December 1565 the son of Alexander Caulfeild of Great Milton in Oxfordshire. As a youth, he served under Marti ...

* 1627: William Caulfeild, 2nd Baron Caulfeild * 1634: Sir John Borlase (jointly with Sir Thomas Lucas) * 1648:

Roger Boyle, 1st Baron Broghill Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (25 April 1621 – 16 October 1679), styled Lord Broghill from 1628 to 1660, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England at various times between 1654 and 1679. Boyle fough ...

* ... * 1660:

Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander (c. 1623 – 15 September 1663), known as The Viscount Montgomery from 1642 to 1661, was an Irish peer. He was appointed to command his father's regiment in 1642. He was commander-in-chief of the Royalis ...

Patrick Cracroft-Brennan
Mount Alexander, Earl of (I, 1661 - 1757)
in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Accessed 7 April 2012. * 1663: Sir Robert Byron * 1674: Sir Thomas Chicheley (also

Master-General of the Ordnance The Master-General of the Ordnance (MGO) was a very senior British military position from 1415 to 2013 (except 1855–1895 and 1939–1958) with some changes to the name, usually held by a serving general. The Master-General of the Ordnance was ...

in England) * 1679:

Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford PC (Ire) (ca. 163223 December 1700) was an English politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. He was an administrator in Ireland. Aungier was the son of Ambrose Aungier, chancellor of S ...

* 1684:

William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1653–1692), was an Anglo-Irish soldier. Early life William Stewart was born in 1653, the son of Sir Alexander Stewart, 2nd Baronet, of Ramelton. His family was from Donegal, Ulster Scots, and Protes ...

* 1692: William Wolseley * 1698:

Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander (24 February 1651 – 12 February 1717) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer. Montgomery was the son of Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander and his first wife, Mary, daughter of Charles Moore, ...

* 1705:

Richard Ingoldsby Colonel Sir Richard Ingoldsby (10 August 1617 – 9 September 1685) was an English officer in the New Model Army during the English Civil War and a politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1685. As a Commissione ...

* 1712:

Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran Lieutenant-General Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (of the second creation), ''de jure'' 3rd Duke of Ormonde (1671–1758) was an Anglo-Irish peer. His uncle Richard was the 1st Earl of Arran of the first creation. The titles were re-create ...

* 1714:

William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy (1675 – 10 January 1728), was an Anglo-Irish peer. William Stewart was born in 1675, the son of Sir William Stewart, later 1st Viscount Mountjoy. His father was a leader of the Irish Protestants during t ...

* 1727:

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* 1739:

Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth Field Marshal Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, PC (Ire) FRS (1680 – 12 October 1758), styled The Honourable Richard Molesworth from 1716 to 1726, was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and nobleman. He served with his r ...

* 1758: James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster * 1766:

Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon KP, PC (Ire) (30 January 1727 – 20 May 1807), was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament. He represented Dungarvan and Cork County, and succeeded his father as Earl of Shannon.Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda * 1797:

Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier. He was the son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton and brother-in-law of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland ...

David R. Fisher
LUTTRELL, Henry Lawes, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (1737-1821), of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin and Painshill, Surr.
in ''

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: The House of Commons 1790-1820'', 1986. Online edition accessed 18 March 2012. * 1800: Thomas Pakenham Pakenham was granted compensation of £1,200 per annum after the Union.''Journals of the House of Commons'', volume 59
page 774
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Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance

Salary in 1800: £600Beatson (1806
page 346
/ref> * 1660: Sir Albert Conyngham * 1687: John Giles * 1689: William Mansel Barker (Jacobite) * 1692: Francis Cuffe * 1695: Chidley Coote * 1698: Jermyn Wych * 1702: Chidley Coote * 1706: Thomas Burgh * 1714: Richard MolesworthPatrick Cracroft-Brennan
Molesworth, Viscount (I, 1716)
in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Accessed 7 April 2012. * bef 1738: Edward HillGuy Miege, ''The Present State of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1738), p. 101

/ref> * ... * 1759: Bernard Hale (British Army officer), Bernard Hale * 1789:

* 1797: Thomas Pakenham * 1800: Marcus Beresford Beresford was granted compensation of £600 per annum after the Union.

Surveyor-General of the Ordnance

Salary in 1800: £450 * in 1704: George Houghton * in 1738: Peter Virasell * by 1760: Ralph Ward * 1789: Thomas Pakenham * 1797:

Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet (1758–1825) was a British government minister. He was made a baronet in 1794. He was Surveyor General of the Ordnance in Ireland from 1797 to 1799 and also sat in the Parliament of Ireland as the MP for Knocktophe ...

* 1799: Robert Uniacke Uniacke was granted compensation of £1,206 13s. per annum after the Union.

Clerk of the Ordnance

Salary in 1800: £300 * 1691–aft. 1705: Edward Payne Sir James Ware, ''The Antiquities and History of Ireland'' (Dublin, 1705
page 187
/ref> *... * bef. 1722–aft. 1738: Hector Pain * by 1760: Joseph Keene * 1788:

Isaac Corry Isaac Corry FRS, PC (I), PCThorne, ''The House of Commons 1790–1820, Vol. 1'', Secker & Warburg London, p. 504 (15 May 1753 – 15 May 1813) was an Irish and British Member of Parliament and lawyer. Early career Born in Newry, he was the so ...

* 1789: Richard Magenis * 1800:

Ponsonby Tottenham Ponsonby Tottenham (1746 – 13 December 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Tottenham sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Fethard between 1779 and 1790, before sitting for Bannow from 1790 and 1797. He then repres ...

Tottenham was granted compensation of £487 2s. 6d. per annum after the Union.

Principal Storekeeper

Salary in 1800: £200 * 1691: Hugh Rowley * in 1738: John Favier * 1748: Thomas Coote * 1768: John Creighton * 1775: Thomas Coghlan * 1788: Thomas Pakenham * 1789:

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* 1792:

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* 1797: Charles Handfield * 1798: Henry Alexander * 1799: John Hobson Hobson was granted compensation of £616 13s. 9d. per annum after the Union.''Journals of the House of Commons'', volume 59
page 775
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Clerk of the Deliveries

Salary in 1800: £200Beatson (1806
page 347
/ref> * by 1760:

John Gustavus Handcock John Gustavus Handcock (1720 – 26 February 1766) was an Irish politician. He was the sixth son of William Handcock and his wife Susan Warburton, daughter of Richard Warburton. His older brother was William Handcock and his cousins were Will ...

* 1767:

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* 1775:

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* 1789: Edward King * 1789: Robert Wynne Wynne was granted compensation of £400 per annum after the Union.''Journals of the House of Commons'', volume 59
page 776
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Treasurer

Salary in 1800: £200 * by 1760: John Chaigneau * 1779: Thomas Burgh Burgh was granted compensation of £500 per annum after the Union.

Secretary to the Master-General

Salary in 1800: £182 10s. * by 1760: Peter Bere * 1766: Robert Pratt * 1770: Henry Meredyth * 1789: John Armit * 1800: Joseph Atkinson Atkinson was granted compensation of £520 3s. 6d. per annum after the Union.

References

Robert Beatson Robert Beatson, LL.D. FRSE FSA (1741–1818) was a Scottish compiler and miscellaneous writer. Life He was born on 25 June 1741 at Dysart in Fife, Scotland, the son of David Beatson of Vicarsgrange. He was educated for the military profession, ...

, ''A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland'', volume III (London, 1806) {{reflist, 2 Military history of Ireland 1801 disestablishments in Ireland