This is a list of people who have held the post of Lord Lieutenant of County Galway.
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 and was abolished in 1922, when Galway ceased to be part of the United Kingdom. Governors
William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty Denis Daly: –1791 Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 1792–1797 Joseph Henry Blake, 1st Baron Wallscourt: 1798–1803 Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty: 1802P. J. Jupp, TRENCH, Hon. Richard (1767-1837), of Garbally, co. Galway. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, (1986).–1831The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389. John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort: 1812–1817Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Gort, Viscount (I, 1816). Accessed 31 December 2018. Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort: 1814–1831
Lord Lieutenants Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 7 October 1831 – 10 April 1874 Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock: 28 May 1874 – June 1892 Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock: 13 June 1892 – 12 May 1917 Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin: 17 April 1918 – 1922
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