Lord Lieutenant of Louth

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

There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors.^[1] The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.

Governors

• Oliver Plunkett, 6th Baron Louth (died 1679) ^[2]
• Matthew Plunkett, 7th Baron Louth: 1687–1689^[3]
• Viscount Limerick: 1756–1758 ^[4]
• James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil: 1769–1798 (died 1798)
• John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel 1798–1828^[5]
• Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard 1805–1831 (jointly until 1828)^[6]

Lord Lieutenants

• Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew 9 December 1831 – 10 December 1866
• John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell 14 January 1867 – 17 April 1879
• Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene 13 November 1879 – March 1898
• George Bellew-Bryan, 4th Baron Bellew 14 March 1898 – 15 July 1911
• Sir Alan Bellingham, 4th Baronet 4 November 1911 – 9 June 1921
• Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet 22 July 1921 – 1922

References

• Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2008.

1. G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b).
2. Debrett, John. Scotland and Ireland. p. 1195.
3. O'Sullivan, Harold (1992). "The Jacobite Ascendancy and Williamite Revolution and Confiscations in County Louth 1684-1701". Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society. 22 (4): 432. doi:10.2307/27729726. JSTOR 27729726. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
4. History of Parliament Online
5. Philip Salmon, FOSTER, John (1740-1828), of Collon, co. Louth. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).
6. Salmon, SKEFFINGTON (formerly FOSTER), Hon. Thomas Henry (?1772-1843), of Collon, co. Louth in The History of Parliament 1820–1832.