Lord Lieutenant of Antrim

A list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Antrim , located in Northern Ireland.

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.

Lord-lieutenants

• Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim: 1620–1636 ^[1] (died 1636)
• Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim ^[2] 1685–89 (died 1699)

Governors

• Alexander MacDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim ^[3] (died 1775)
• Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim –1801 (died 1801)
• George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall: –1831 ^[4]
• Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill: –1831 ^[4]

Lord-lieutenants

• The 1st Earl O'Neill: 17 October 1831 – 25 March 1841
• The 3rd Marquess of Donegall: 24 April 1841 – 20 October 1883
• The 1st Baron Waveney: 4 December 1883 – 15 February 1886
• Sir Edward Porter Cowan: 2 April 1886 – 24 March 1890
• Sir Francis Workman-Macnaghten, 3rd Baronet: 21 May 1890 – 21 July 1911
• The 9th Earl of Shaftesbury: 2 November 1911 – 1916
• The 12th Viscount Massereene: 9 June 1916 – 1938
• The 3rd Baron O'Neill: 14 April 1938 – 24 October 1944
• Senator James Graham Leslie: 12 March 1945 – 16 May 1949
• The 1st Baron Rathcavan: 22 September 1949 – 1959
• Sir Richard Dobbs: 24 March 1959 – 1994
• The 4th Baron O'Neill: 19 April 1994 – 31 August 2008
• Joan Christie: 1 September 2008 – 28 June 2019
• David McCorkell: ^[5] 29 June 2019 –

See also

• Lists of lord lieutenancies
• Lord lieutenancies of Northern Ireland
• Official Antrim Lieutenancy Website

References

• Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2008.

1. G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage , vol. I (1910) p. 174.
2. Complete Peerage, vol. I, p. 175.
3. Complete Peerage, vol. I, p. 176.
4. The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
5. "Lord-Lieutenant for County Antrim: 24 June 2019".