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Lord Deputy of Ireland

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The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland.[1] He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland. The plural form is Lords Deputy.

List of Lords Deputy

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Lordship of Ireland

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Portrait or Arms Name

(Birth–Death)

Nationality Term of office Monarch Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
Thomas de la Dale
(c. 1316–1373)
English 1365 1366 Edward III
Thomas Mortimer
(c. 1350–1399)
English 1382 1383 Richard II
Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1421–1477)
Anglo-Irish 1454 1459 Henry VI
William Sherwood
(died 1482)
English 1462 1462 Edward IV
Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond
(died c. 1467)
Anglo-Irish 1463 1467
John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester
(1427–1470)
English 1467 1468
Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1421–1477)
Anglo-Irish 1468 1475
Henry VI
Edward IV
William Sherwood
(died 1482)
English 1475 1477
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1456–1513)
Anglo-Irish 1477 1477
Henry Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Codnor
(c. 1435–1496)
English 1478 1479
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1456–1513)
Anglo-Irish 1479 ?1494
Edward V
Richard III
Henry VII
Walter Fitzsimon
(died 1511)
Anglo-Irish 1492 1492
Robert Preston, 1st Viscount Gormanston
(1435–1503)
Anglo-Irish 1493 1494
Edward Poynings
(c. 1459–1521)
English 1494 1496
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1456–1513)
Anglo-Irish 1496 1513
Henry VIII
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1487–1534)
Anglo-Irish 1513 1518
Sir Maurice Fitzgerald Anglo-Irish [2]
Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey
(1473–1554)
English 1520 1522 [3]
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
(c. 1467–1539)
Anglo-Irish 1522 1524
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1487–1534)
Anglo-Irish 1524 1529
William Skeffington
(c. 1465–1535)
English 1529 1532
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
(c. 1487–1534)
Anglo-Irish 1532 1534
William Skeffington
(c. 1465–1535)
English 1534 1535
Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane
(died 1541)
English 1536 1540

Kingdom of Ireland

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Portrait or Arms Name

(Birth–Death)

Nationality Term of office Monarch Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
Anthony St Leger
(c. 1496–1559)
English 1540 1548
Edward VI
Edward Bellingham
(1506–1549)
English 1548 1549
Lord Justices 1549 1550
Anthony St Leger
(c. 1496–1559)
English 1550 1551
James Croft
(c. 1518–1590)
English 1551 1552
Lord Justices (1552–1553)
Anthony St Leger
(c. 1496–1559)
English 1553 1556
Mary I
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
(c. 1525–1583)
English 1556 1558 [4]
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
(c. 1525–1583)
(as Lord Lieutenant)
English 1560 1564 Elizabeth I [5]
Nicholas Arnold
(1507–1580)
English 1564 1565
Henry Sidney
(1529–1586)
English 1565 1571 [6]
William FitzWilliam
(1526–1599)
English 1571 1575
Henry Sidney
(1529–1586)
English 1575 1578 [7]
Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton
(1536–1593)
English 1580 1582
John Perrot
(1528–1592)
Welsh 1584 1588
William FitzWilliam
(1526–1599)
English 1588 1594
William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh
(died 1613)
English 11 August 1594 1597 [8]
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh
(c. 1558–1597)
English 1597 1597
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
(1565–1601)
English 1599 1599
Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy
(1563–1606)
(as Lord Lieutenant 1603–1604)
English 1600 1603
James VI and I
George Carey
(c. 1541–1616)
English 1603 1604
Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester
(1563–1625)
English 1605 1616 [9]
Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison
(1559–1630)
English 1616 1622 [10]
Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland
(c. 1575–1633)
English 1622 1629
Charles I
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
(1593–1641)
English 1632 1640
Christopher Wandesford
(1592–1640)
English 1640 1640
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
(1595–1677) (as Lord Lieutenant)
English 1640 1643
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
(1610–1688)

(as Lord Lieutenant)

Anglo-Irish 1644 1650
Henry Ireton
(1611–1651)
English 1650 1651
Charles Fleetwood
(c. 1618–1692)
English 1652 1657
Henry Cromwell
(1628–1674) (as Lord Lieutenant 1658–1659)
English 1657 1658
Edmund Ludlow
(c. 1617–1692)
English 1659 1660
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
(1608–1670)
English 1660 1661
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
(1610–1688)
Anglo-Irish 1662 1668
Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory
(1634–1680)
Anglo-Irish 1668 1669
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor
(1606–1685)
English 1669 1670
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton
(1602–1678)
1670 1672
Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex
(c. 1631–1683)
English 1672 1677
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
(1610–1688)
Anglo-Irish 1677 1682
Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran
(1639–1686)
Anglo-Irish 1682 1684
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
(1610–1688)
Anglo-Irish 1684 1685
Lords Justices 24 February 1685
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
(1638–1709)
English 1685 1687
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
(c. 1630–1691)
Irish 1687 1688

The title subsequently became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the holder also known informally as the Viceroy.

References

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  1. ^ "Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban". The Gentleman's Journal. 41. Printed by F. Jefferies: 49. January–June 1854. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2008. Counsel's Fees
  2. ^ The Chronological Historian
  3. ^ Creighton, Mandell (1891). "Howard, Thomas II (1473–1554)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 64–67.
  4. ^ Wagner, John, Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World, Oryx, 1999, p. 252
  5. ^ Wagner, John, Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World, Oryx, 1999, p. 252
  6. ^ Wagner, John, Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World, Oryx, 1999, p. 278
  7. ^ Wagner, John, Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World, Oryx, 1999, p. 278
  8. ^ Dunlop, Robert (1897). "Russell, William (1558?-1613)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 477.
  9. ^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  10. ^ Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 74