The Governor of Cork was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Cork in Ireland. The office became a sinecure and in 1833 was abolished from the next vacancy.
List of governors of Cork
Governors 1644: Major Muschamp 1651: Colonel Robert Phaire (for Parliament) (page 175) 1672: Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon 1678: Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon 1689: Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare and M. Boileau (for King James II) 1690: Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone and Roger McElligott (for King James II) 1690: Colonel Hales and Colonel Hastings (for King William) 1691: Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington 1691: Sir Richard Cox 1692: Sir Toby Purcell 1698: Sir James Jeffreys 1698–1700: Position abolished 1701: Sir James Jeffreys 1722: James Jeffreys (son of above) 1746–?1750: Gervais Parker 1752–1764: Lieut-General Sir James St Clair 1764–1768: Lord Robert Bertie 1768–1778: Col. John Wynne 1778–1782: Nicholas Lysaght 1782–1789: Thomas Pigott 1789–1792: Mountifort Longfield 1792–1811: The Earl of Massereene 1811–1820: The Lord Beresford 1820–1828: Sir Brent Spencer 1829–1835: Sir William Inglis
Lieutenant-governors
c.1760–1765?: James Molesworth 1764–1768: John Wynne 1768–1769: James St John Jeffereyes 1772–1778: William Hull a.k.a. William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale 1778–: John Leland 1796–1808: John Leland 1808–1815: Col. William Dickson 1815–1834: James Stirling
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