This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Limerick.
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. The title Lord Lieutenant was always pronounced as 'Lord Lef-tenant'.
Governors
- William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell: 1689–1691 (died 1691)[2]
- Thomas Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell: 1762– (died 1780)
- The Lord Muskerry:[3] 1780–1818
- The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon: 1818–1831[4]
Lord Lieutenants
- The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon (who later became, in 1851, 3rd Earl of Clare): 7 October 1831 – September 1848
- The 2nd Earl of Clare: 13 September 1848 – 13 August 1851
- The 3rd Earl of Clare: 1851 – 10 January 1864
- The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 20 February 1864 – 6 October 1871
- The 1st Baron Emly: 8 December 1871 – 20 April 1894
- Thomas Enraght O'Brien: 29 November 1894 – 18 January 1896
- The 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 5 March 1896 – 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).
- ^ Barry, James Grene. The Bourkes of Clanwilliam. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Fourth Series, Vol. 9, No. 80 (July–October 1889), p.201.
- ^ Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 372.
- ^ Stephen Farrell, FITZGIBBON, Hon. Richard Hobart (1793-1864), of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).