Lord Lieutenant of Carlow

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Carlow.

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

Dudley Bagenal 1689–1690 (Jacobite) Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet 1699– Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond 1714–1741 Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet, of Dunmore 1725–1727 William Burton 1741– Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 371. Beauchamp Bagenal 1767–1800E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (2002) vol. III, p. 122. Clement Wolseley William Henry Burton 1767–1800Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. III, p. 330. John Staunton Rochfort: 1779–1798 Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. VI, p. 179.–1831The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389. David La Touche: 1798–1816Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. V, p. 65. William Browne: –1831 Henry Bruen: 1816–1831Philip Salmon, BRUEN, Henry (1789-1852), of Oak Park, co. Carlow in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009). Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes: 1820–1831Stephen Farrell, BURGH, Sir Ulysses Bagenal (1788-1863), of 6 York Street, Mdx. and Bert House, nr. Athy, co. Kildare in History of Parliament 1820–1832. Thomas Kavanagh: –1831

Lord Lieutenants John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough: 17 October 1831 – 1838 John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough: November 1838 – 28 January 1880 Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh: 25 March 1880 – 25 December 1889 Thomas McClintock-Bunbury, 2nd Baron Rathdonnell: 26 February 1890 – 1922

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