Lord Lieutenant of Limerick

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

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. The title Lord Lieutenant was always pronounced as 'Lord Lef-tenant'.

Governors

• William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell: 1689–1691 (died 1691)^[2]
• Thomas Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell: 1762– (died 1780)
• The Lord Muskerry:^[3] 1780–1818
• The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon: 1818–1831^[4]

Lord Lieutenants

• The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon (who later became, in 1851, 3rd Earl of Clare): 7 October 1831 – September 1848
• The 2nd Earl of Clare: 13 September 1848 – 13 August 1851
• The 3rd Earl of Clare: 1851 – 10 January 1864
• The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 20 February 1864 – 6 October 1871
• The 1st Baron Emly: 8 December 1871 – 20 April 1894
• Thomas Enraght O'Brien: 29 November 1894 – 18 January 1896
• The 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl: 5 March 1896 – 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. Barry, James Grene. The Bourkes of Clanwilliam. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Fourth Series, Vol. 9, No. 80 (July–October 1889), p.201.
3. Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 372.
4. Stephen Farrell, FITZGIBBON, Hon. Richard Hobart (1793-1864), of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).