Lord Lieutenant of Carlow explained

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.^[1] The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.

Governors

• Dudley Bagenal 1689–1690 (Jacobite)^[2]
• Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet 1699–
• Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond 1714–1741 ^[3]
• Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet, of Dunmore 1725–1727
• William Burton 1741– ^[4]
• Beauchamp Bagenal 1767–1800^[5]
• Clement Wolseley^[4]
• William Henry Burton 1767–1800^[6]
• John Staunton Rochfort: 1779–1798 ^[7] –1831^[8]
• David La Touche: 1798–1816^[9]
• William Browne: –1831^[8]
• Henry Bruen: 1816–1831^[10]
• The Lord Downes: 1820–1831^[11]
• Thomas Kavanagh: –1831^[8]

Lord Lieutenants

• The 4th Earl of Bessborough: 17 October 1831 – 1838
• The 5th Earl of Bessborough: November 1838 – 28 January 1880
• Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh: 25 March 1880 – 25 December 1889
• The 2nd Baron Rathdonnell: 26 February 1890 – 1922

References

• Web site: Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005 . Sainty . J. C. . John Sainty (civil servant) . 2008-06-07 . https://archive.today/20120804102750/http://www.history.ac.uk/office/lieutenants_ire.html . 2012-08-04 . dead .

Notes and References

1. [George Edward Cokayne|G. E. C.]
2. Web site: Bagenal, Dudley . Ó Ciardha . Éamonn . October 2009 . Dictionary of Irish Biography . 16 February 2023 .
3. Web site: O'BRIEN, Henry, 7th Earl of Thomond [I] (1688-1741), of Great Billing, Northants. and co. Clare]. History of Parliament Trust. 23 February 2019.
4. [Robert Beatson|Beatson]
5. E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (2002) vol. III, p. 122.
6. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. III, p. 330.
7. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. VI, p. 179.
8. The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
9. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. V, p. 65.
10. Philip Salmon, BRUEN, Henry (1789-1852), of Oak Park, co. Carlow in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).
11. Stephen 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.