This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath.
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 Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere: 1772E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (2002) vol. VI, p. 174.–1815 George Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath:Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 373. –1814 Gustavus Hume Rochfort: 1815–1824Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. VI, p. 177. William Handcock, 1st Viscount Castlemaine: 1824–1831The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389. George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath: –1831
Lord Lieutenants George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath: 7 October 1831 – April 1871 Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville: 3 April 1871 – 26 January 1883 Sir Benjamin Chapman, 4th Baronet: 28 March 1883 – 3 November 1888 Richard Handcock, 4th Baron Castlemaine: 14 January 1889 – 26 April 1892 Francis Travers Dames-Longworth: 13 June 1892 – 3 December 1898 Albert Handcock, 5th Baron Castlemaine: 26 May 1899 – 1922
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