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 ...

Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...

. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of

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, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.

Governors

Dudley Bagenal Dudley Bagenal (1554–1587) was an Irish soldier and landowner of the Tudor era. Dudley was the son of the Staffordshire-born Sir Nicholas Bagenal who had settled in Ireland in the 1550s, creating a power base around Newry in Ulster thanks to ...

1689–1690 (Jacobite) *

Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan (a townland near Carlow), (died c. February 1704) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde. By 1650, he succe ...

1699– *

Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond (14 August 1688 – 20 April 1741) was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament. He was born the son of Henry Horatio O'Brien, Lord Ibrackan, who was to predecease his own father in 1690, allowing the title of Ear ...

1714–1741 *

Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet, of Dunmore Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet (14 September 1668 – 14 April 1727) was an Irish politician and baronet. Born at Garrahill in County Carlow, he was the son of Thomas Burdett and his wife Catherine Kennedy, daughter of Sir Robert Kennedy, ...

1725–1727 * William Burton 1741– Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. III
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Beauchamp Bagenal Beauchamp Bagenal (1741 – 1 May 1802) was an Irish rake, buck, duelist, and politician. He was born in County Carlow in 1741, son of Walter Bagenal, and his second wife Eleanor Beauchamp, and inherited the family estates aged 11. Bagenal ...

1767–1800 * Clement Wolseley *

William Henry Burton William Henry Burton (1739–1818) was an Irish politician. Burton was born in County Carlow and educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College, Dublin. He served as a captain in the 13th Dragoons from 1766 to 1770. Burton represented Gowran ...

1767–1800 *

John Staunton Rochfort John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

: 1779–1798 –1831''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831
p. 389
* David La Touche: 1798–1816 * William Browne: –1831 * Henry Bruen: 1816–1831 * The Lord Downes: 1820–1831Stephen Farrell
BURGH, Sir Ulysses Bagenal (1788-1863), of 6 York Street, Mdx. and Bert House, nr. Athy, co. Kildare
in ''History of Parliament 1820–1832''. * Thomas Kavanagh: –1831

Lord Lieutenants

* The 4th Earl of Bessborough: 17 October 1831 – 1838 * The 5th Earl of Bessborough: November 1838 – 28 January 1880 *

Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh (25 March 183125 December 1889) was an Irish politician. His middle name is spelled MacMorrough in some contemporaneous sources. Biography Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh was born on 25 March 1831 at Borris House in Cou ...

: 25 March 1880 – 25 December 1889 * The 2nd Baron Rathdonnell: 26 February 1890 – 1922

References

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