Lord Lieutenant of Galway

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This is a list of people who have held the post of Lord Lieutenant of County Galway .

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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 and was abolished in 1922, when Galway ceased to be part of the United Kingdom.

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References

  1. G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage , vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b).
  2. P. J. Jupp, TRENCH, Hon. Richard (1767-1837), of Garbally, co. Galway. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, (1986).
  3. The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
  4. 1 2 Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Gort, Viscount (I, 1816). Accessed 31 December 2018.