Lord Lieutenant of Limerick

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

Thomas Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell: 1762– (died 1780)
The Lord Muskerry: [2] 1780–1818
The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon: 1818–1831[3]

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 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2008-06-07.

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

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

[Beatson-2] Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 372.

[3] 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).