This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Longford.
There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors.G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b). The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.
Governors
George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard, 1740–1756 George Forbes, 4th Earl of Granard, 1756– (died 1769) Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen,Arthur Aspinall, GLEADOWE NEWCOMEN, Hon. Thomas (1776–1825), of Carrickglass, co. Longford and Killester, co. Dublin. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986). 1801–1825The Royal Kalendar for 1825, p. 386. George Forbes, 6th Earl of Granard, –1831The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
Lord Lieutenants George Forbes, Viscount Forbes, 7 October 1831 – 13 November 1836 Luke White, 22 November 1836 – 1841 Henry White, 1st Baron Annaly, 1841 – 3 September 1873 Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly, 7 November 1873 – March 1874 William Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford, 27 March 1874 – 19 April 1887 Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, 14 June 1887 – 21 August 1915 vacant Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, 26 August 1916 – 1922
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