Lord Deputy of Ireland

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The Lord Deputy was the King's representative and head of the Irish executive during the Kingdom of Ireland.

• Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1477 -1494) (1496 -1513)
• Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane (1536 - 1540)
• Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex (1556 -1558)
• Sir Henry Sidney (1575 - )
• William FitzWilliam (1571-1575) (1588–1594)
• Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton (1580 -1582)
• Sir John Perrot (1582 - 1588)
• William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (1594–1597)
• Thomas Burgh, 7th Baron Strabolgi (1597)
• Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire (1600-1603) (Lord Lieutenant 1603 -1604)
• Sir Arthur Chichester (1604 - 1616)
• Sir Edward Blaney
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1632 - 1640)
• Christopher Wandesford (1640)
• Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1640 - 1643) (Lord Lieutenant)
• Henry Ireton (1650 - 1651)
• Charles Fleetwood (1652 - 1657)
• Henry Cromwell (1657 - 1658) (Lord Lieutenant 1658 -1659)
• Edmund Ludlow (1659 - 1660)
• Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (1687 -1688)

The title subsequently became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland