Lord_Lieutenant_of_Galway

Lord Lieutenant of Galway

Lord Lieutenant of Galway

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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

Lord Lieutenants

References

  • Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2008.
  1. [1]
    G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b).
  2. [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).
  3. [3]
    The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
  4. [4]
    Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Gort, Viscount (I, 1816). Accessed 31 December 2018.


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