Governor of Galway
The Governor of Galway was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Galway in the west of Ireland. The post became a sinecure and in 1833 was to be abolished from the next vacancy.
List of Governors
- 1616: Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde (died 1635)
- Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (died 1657)
- Henry de Burgh
- 1651: General Preston (fled to France, 1651)
- 1652: Colonel Peter Stubbers (for Parliament)
- 1655: Colonel Thomas Sadleir
- –1691: Henry Dillon, 8th Viscount Dillon
- 1691: Sir Henry Belasyse
- John Eyre
- 1712: Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde
- 1714: John Ussher
- 1718: George St George, 1st Baron St George
- 1747–: Stratford Eyre (died 1765)
- 1768–1793: Robert Sandford[1]
- 1793–1825: Peter Daly[2]
- 1826–1839: Sir John Elley[3]
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References
- Robert Beatson, A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland, vol. III (1806) p. 349.
- "No. 13562". The London Gazette. 24–27 August 1793. p. 727.
- "No. 18215". The London Gazette. 28 January 1826. p. 179.
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