Lord Justices (Ireland)
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The Lords Justices were three office-holders in the Kingdom of Ireland who in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland fulfilled the social and political duties of the viceroy as head of the Irish executive.
The office-holders were usually the
- Church of Ireland primate, the Archbishop of Armagh,
- the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and
- the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.
Among their duties was to welcome the incoming Lord Lieutenant when he arrived in state in the port of Dublin, having travelled from Great Britain to take up his post.
The decision in 1765 of the government of Great Britain to require the viceroy to be a full-time resident in Ireland, rather than just pay visits during sessions of parliament, removed the need for the Lords Justices, while the abolition of the Irish Parliament in 1800 meant that there was no longer a speaker of the House of Commons to serve as a Lord Justice.
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