Lord Lieutenant of Carlow

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Carlow.

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.

Governors

• Dudley Bagenal 1689–1690 (Jacobite)^[2]
• Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet 1699–
• Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond 1714–1741 ^[3]
• Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet, of Dunmore 1725–1727
• William Burton 1741– ^[4]
• Beauchamp Bagenal 1767–1800^[5]
• Clement Wolseley^[4]
• William Henry Burton 1767–1800^[6]
• John Staunton Rochfort: 1779–1798 ^[7]–1831^[8]
• David La Touche: 1798–1816^[9]
• William Browne: –1831^[8]
• Henry Bruen: 1816–1831^[10]
• The Lord Downes: 1820–1831^[11]
• Thomas Kavanagh: –1831^[8]

Lord Lieutenants

• The 4th Earl of Bessborough: 17 October 1831 – 1838
• The 5th Earl of Bessborough: November 1838 – 28 January 1880
• Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh: 25 March 1880 – 25 December 1889
• The 2nd Baron Rathdonnell: 26 February 1890 – 1922

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, n. (b).
2. Ó Ciardha, Éamonn (October 2009). "Bagenal, Dudley". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
3. "O'BRIEN, Henry, 7th Earl of Thomond [I] (1688-1741), of Great Billing, Northants. and co. Clare". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
4. Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 371.
5. E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (2002) vol. III, p. 122.
6. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. III, p. 330.
7. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. VI, p. 179.
8. The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
9. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, vol. V, p. 65.
10. Philip Salmon, BRUEN, Henry (1789-1852), of Oak Park, co. Carlow in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).
11. Stephen Farrell, BURGH, Sir Ulysses Bagenal (1788-1863), of 6 York Street, Mdx. and Bert House, nr. Athy, co. Kildare in History of Parliament 1820–1832.