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)War Office: Printed Annual Army Lists (WO 65) 1768–1793: Robert SandfordRobert Beatson, A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland, vol. III (1806) p. 349. 1793–1825: Peter Daly 1826–1839: Sir John Elley
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