LORD DEPUTY OF IRELAND

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