Lord Lieutenant of Galway

This is a list of people who have held the post of Lord Lieutenant of County Galway.

There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors.^[1] The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831 and was abolished in 1922, when Galway ceased to be part of the United Kingdom.

Governors

William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty
Denis Daly: –1791
Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 1792–1797
Joseph Henry Blake, 1st Baron Wallscourt: 1798–1803
Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty: 1802^[2]–1831^[3]
John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort: 1812–1817^[4]
Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort: 1814–1831^[4]

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

Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2008.

^ G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b).
^ P. J. Jupp, TRENCH, Hon. Richard (1767-1837), of Garbally, co. Galway. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, (1986).
^ The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
^ ^a ^b Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Gort, Viscount (I, 1816). Accessed 31 December 2018.

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[1] G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b).

[2] P. J. Jupp, TRENCH, Hon. Richard (1767-1837), of Garbally, co. Galway. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, (1986).

[RK1831-3] The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.

[Gort-4] Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Gort, Viscount (I, 1816). Accessed 31 December 2018.

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