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The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions, overseeing the

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and the Irish Engineers, and maintaining the fortifications in the island. Following the

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, 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:

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* 1588: Sir George Carew * 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 * 1627: William Caulfeild, 2nd Baron Caulfeild * 1634: Sir John Borlase (jointly with Sir Thomas Lucas) * 1648: Roger Boyle, 1st Baron Broghill * ... * 1660: Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount AlexanderPatrick 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

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in England) * 1679: Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford * 1684: William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy * 1692: William Wolseley * 1698: Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander * 1705:

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* 1712: Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran * 1714: William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy * 1727: François de La Rochefoucauld, marquis de Montandre * 1739: Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth * 1758:

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* 1766: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon * 1770:

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 mili ...

* 1797: Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of CarhamptonDavid 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: Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton * 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 * 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

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, ''The Antiquities and History of Ireland'' (Dublin, 1705
page 187
/ref> *... * bef. 1722–aft. 1738: Hector Pain * by 1760: Joseph Keene * 1788: Isaac Corry * 1789: Richard Magenis * 1800: Ponsonby Tottenham 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:

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* 1788: Thomas Pakenham * 1789:

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* 1792: Richard Archdall * 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:

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* 1767: John Magill * 1775: Robert Tighe * 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 professio ...

, ''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