Christopher Wandesford was an English administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629. He was Lord Deputy of Ireland in the last months of his life.
This is a list of people who have served as the Lord Lieutenant of Kilkenny.
George Montagu,1st Earl of Halifax,of Horton,Northamptonshire,was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1715 when he became a peer.
Thomas Pelham,1st Baron Pelham of Laughton Bt was a moderate English Whig politician and Member of Parliament for several constituencies. He is best remembered as the father of two British prime ministers who,between them,served for 18 years as first minister.
Viscount Castlecomer was a title created on 15 March 1707,along with the title Baron Wandesford,for Christopher Wandesford,1st Viscount Castlecomer,whose father,Sir Christopher Wandesford,had been created Baronet of Kirklington,North Yorkshire on 5 August 1662 in the Baronetage of England. The 5th Viscount was created Earl Wandesford on 15 August 1758. All three titles and the baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1784.
Sir David Dalrymple,1st Baronet,of Hailes was a Scottish advocate and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1698 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1707 to 1721. He served as Lord Advocate,and eventually Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland in 1720.
John Verney,1st Viscount Fermanagh,known as Sir John Verney,2nd Baronet,between 1696 and 1703,was an English peer,merchant and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1717.
Kirklington is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire close to the A1(M) motorway. Kirklington forms the major part of the civil parish of Kirklington-cum-Upsland.
William Grimston,1st Viscount Grimston was an English peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1710 and 1734.
James Scudamore,3rd Viscount Scudamore,was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1716.
Henry Dawnay,2nd Viscount Downe,styled The Honourable Henry Dawnay between 1681 and 1695,was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1690 and 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1727.
John Bateman,2nd Viscount Bateman was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1746 to 1784.
Edward Watson,Viscount Sondes of Lees Court,Sheldwich,Kent,and Park Place,London,was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1722.
Sir Christopher Wandesford (1592–1640) was MP for Aldborough,Richmond and Thirsk and Lord Deputy of Ireland,1640.
Lieutenant-General Thomas Windsor,1st Viscount Windsor,styled The Honourable Thomas Windsor until 1699,was a British Army officer,landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1685 and 1712. He was then elevated to the British House of Lords as one of Harley's Dozen.
William Vane,1st Viscount Vane,of Fairlawn,Kent,was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1734.
Christopher Wandesford,1st Viscount Castlecomer was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
Richard Bulkeley,4th Viscount Bulkeley,of Baron Hill,Anglesey,was a Welsh Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1704 and 1724. He was extremely hot-tempered and was involved in several personal and family disputes with local Whig leaders.
John Fitzwilliam,2nd Earl Fitzwilliam MP of Milton,near Peterborough was an English peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1728. The peerage was in the Peerage of Ireland.
Sir Thomas Reade,4th Baronet of Shipton Court,Oxfordshire was a British courtier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34 years from 1713 to 1747.
