Lord President of Connaught
The Lord President of Connaught was a military leader with wide-ranging powers, reaching into the civil sphere, in the English government of Connaught in Ireland, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- 1569-1572 Sir Edward Fitton[1]
- 1579-1581 Sir Nicholas Malby[2]
- 1584 Richard Bingham
- 1597-1599 Sir Conyers Clifford[3]
- 1604-1616 Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde[4]
- 1616-1644 Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot[5]
- Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon, according to some sources, had the title from c. 1621, but Wilmot certainly continued in the post for life.
- 1630 (joint) Roger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh[5]
- c.1642 (joint) Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon
- 1644-1658 (joint with Dillon) Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester
- c.1643 Malachias O'Queely (Confederation)
- 1640s Sir Charles Coote (royalist turned parliamentarian)[6]
- 1661 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, appointed for life. He died in 1678.[7]
Deputies and vice-president
See also
Notes
- ^ "Fitton, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Malby, Nicholas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Clifford, Conyers". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ http://www.cyberancestors.com/cummins/ps56/ps56_126.htm
- ^ a b "Wilmot, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Boyle, Roger (1621-1679)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Berkeley, John, first Baron Berkeley of Stratton". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.