Lords Justices of Ireland

Not to be confused with Lord Chief Justice of Ireland or Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland.

The Lords Justices (more formally the Lords Justices General and General Governors of Ireland) were deputies who acted collectively in the absence of the chief governor of Ireland (latterly the Lord Lieutenant) as head of the executive branch of the Dublin Castle administration. Lords Justices were sworn in at a meeting of the Privy Council of Ireland.

Sir William Pelham, Lord Justice of Ireland

History

A January 1919 proclamation relating to the Soloheadbeg ambush, issued in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant (Viscount French) by the Lords Justices — James Campbell (Lord Chancellor), Frederick Shaw (Commander-in-Chief) and James Wylie (Land Court judge).^[1] Only Campbell signed the proclamation.

After the Norman Conquest of Ireland, the chief governor of the Lordship of Ireland was appointed by the King of England via letters patent; in medieval times under his privy seal,^[2] and later under the Great Seal of England. The patent usually allowed the chief governor to nominate a deputy, though sometimes the King nominated a deputy, and if the chief governor died in office the Privy Council of Ireland would elect a deputy until the King nominated a successor.^[3] The title (originally French or Latin) of the chief governor depended on his power, from most to least: King's (or Lord) Lieutenant; (Lord) Deputy; Justiciar (or Lord Justice); and Keeper. The chief governor's deputy would have a lower title than the chief governor, and was appointed under the Great Seal of Ireland unless by the King. By the time of Henry VII, the Lord Deputy was the resident chief governor (or rarely the resident deputy of a non-resident Lord Lieutenant) and, in case of the Lord Deputy's temporary absence or vacancy, there was one or, later, two Lords Justices appointed by the Privy Council of Ireland. An Irish act of Poynings' Parliament, 10 Hen. 7. c. 26 (I), specified that the Treasurer of Ireland would be "Justice & Governoure" until the King send a "lieutenunt or deputye".^[4] This was repealed three years later, but the statute roll was subsequently lost.^[5][6] A 1542 act formalised how the privy council would elect from among its members one or, if necessary, two Lords Justices, each of whom had to be a layman born in England.^[6] The same year the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 changed the Lordship into the Kingdom of Ireland.

In the 17th century, the King often left the chief governorship vacant for months or years and instead appointed multiple Lords Justices. This was so almost continuously from 1690 to 1700.^[7] Shortly before his 1696 death Lord Deputy Henry Capel nominated Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington and William Wolseley to be Lords Justices; Charles Porter, Capel's rival and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, persuaded the Privy Council of Ireland that the deputies' commission expired on Capel's death, whereupon the council elected Porter as sole Lord Justice.^[8] Prior to 1767 the chief governor (now styled Lord Lieutenant or viceroy) was often absent in England unless the Parliament of Ireland was in session, typically eight months every two years.^[9] Whereas the Lord Lieutenant was a British peer, the Lords Justices were mostly Irishmen;^[10] they were influential and the English government needed their support.^[9] There were always three, typically the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, another member of Irish Commons or Lords, and a senior bishop of the Church of Ireland.^[9] After 1767 the viceroy was resident as a rule, and the practical importance of Lords Justices diminished.^[9] They were still required during vacancies between the death or departure of one viceroy and the arrival of his successor. A 1788 act repealed and replaced long-disregarded provisions of the 1542 act regarding election of Lords Justices, allowing up to three, who need not be laymen or English-born.^[11]

After the Acts of Union 1800, de facto executive power shifted from the viceroy to the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the Lords Justices like the viceroy exercised only formal power. A newly arrived Lord Lieutenant would be escorted in state from Dunleary (later Kingstown) harbour to the Presence Chamber of Dublin Castle, where the Lords Justices were seated. The party would proceed to the Council Chamber, where the Lord Lieutenant would present his letters patent to the Privy Council, and another letter to the Lords Justices demanding the handover of the sword of state.^[12] Up to the mid-nineteenth century the usual Lords Justices were the Lord Chancellor, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh or of Dublin, and Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.^[13] In 1868 it was ruled that a warrant signed in 1866 by only one of the three then Lords Justices was valid, because the patent appointing them allowed for this in case of absence "occasioned by sickness or any other necessary cause", and the cause did not have to be stated.^[14] After the Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1871, its prelates were no longer made Lords Justices, and usually only two were sworn in or the third was a second senior judge.

Increasingly as the 19th century progressed, Lords Justices were sworn in during short absences from Dublin of the Lord Lieutenant, avoiding delay in validating the growing number of orders in council for routine administration. From 1890 to 1921 such absences averaged eight a year, lasting from days up to more than a month.^[15] For example, there were eleven occasions in 1897 in which various subsets of six men were sworn Lords Justices — usually three at a time, but four on two occasions and two on one occasion — the six being Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore, Commander-in-Chief Earl Roberts, and four members of the Court of Appeal in Ireland (the Lord Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Master of the Rolls, and Gerald FitzGibbon).^[16] While John Thomas Ball was serving as a Lord Justice, he seconded the nomination of Dodgson Hamilton Madden in the 1887 Dublin University by-election, which the Irish Parliamentary Party complained was inappropriate.^[17]

In the Irish revolutionary period the Conscription Crisis of 1918 led prime minister David Lloyd George to suggest replacing the Lord Lieutenant on an emergency basis with three Lords Justices.^[18] It proved impossible to find three willing to serve; St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton was prepared to preside but demanded more control of policy than Lloyd George would cede.^[19]

After the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition of Ireland, the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland was abolished by the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act 1922 and replaced by the Governor-General of the Irish Free State and Governor of Northern Ireland, which latter had deputies appointed by the Privy Council of Northern Ireland. The Irish Free State had no privy council: the Governor-General's default replacement would be the Chief Justice, but the sole suggestion of invoking this provision, at James McNeill's 1932 resignation, was not taken up.^[20]

List of Lords Justices

See also: List of chief governors of Ireland

Until 1689

• Sir Thomas Cusack (1552)
• Nicholas Arnold (May 1564–mid-1565)^[21]
• William Pelham (1579–80)

10 February–2 July 1616:^[22]

• Thomas Jones, (Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland)
• Sir John Denham, (Chief Justice of the Kings Bench for Ireland)

2 May–8 September 1622:^[22]

• Sir Adam Loftus (Lord Chancellor of Ireland)
• Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (Marshal of Ireland)

10 February 1641–January 1644:^[23]

• Sir John Borlase
• Sir William Parsons (to March 1643)
• Sir Henry Tichborne (from 12 May 1643)

26 October 1660–July 1662:^[24]

• Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor
• Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath (died 17 December 1661)
• Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1690–1800

• Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway (6 February 1697–April 1701; 1715–16^[25]) in practice dominated his fellow Lords Justices;^[26][27] "but for being a foreigner, he would have been Lord-Lieutenant".^[28]
  • John Methuen accepted nomination as Lord Chancellor of Ireland in February 1697 but resiled from serving as a Lord Justice.^[29]
• Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton (25 May 1697–1700)^[26][29]
• Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey (25 May 1697–1699) rarely in Ireland^[26][29][30]
• Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley (1699–1700)^[26][30]
• Narcissus Marsh, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh (1699, 1700–01, 1701–02, 1707, 1707–08, 1710)^[31]
• Constantine Phipps (1710) Lord Chancellor
• Richard Ingoldsby (1709–1710)
• Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare (1714)
• Colonel Sir Charles Feilding (1714) son of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond
• Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton (1715–16)^[25]
• Hugh Boulter, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh (1726, 1730, 1732, 1734, 1736, 1737, 1738, 1740, 1742)
• Field Marshal Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (1736)

18th century

Date appointed	Date sworn in	Lord Justice	Lord Justice	Lord Justice	Lord Justice
9 Mar 1726	2 Apr 1726	Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh	Richard West, L.C.	William Conolly

1801–1847

Date	Lord Chancellor	Commander	Lord Primate	Ref
13 March 1815	Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners	Sir George Hewett	William Stuart	[32]
11 May 1821	Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners	Sir David Baird	William Stuart	[32]
January 1829	Anthony Hart	John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford	John Beresford	[33]

From 1848

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Lords Justices of Ireland, 1848–1920

Date[n 1]	Judges[n 2]	Commander	Bishop[n 3]	Others
20 October 1848	Maziere Brady C	Edward Blakeney	Richard Whately
21 March 1849	Brady C	Blakeney
19 May 1849	Brady C Francis Blackburne LCJ	Blakeney
15 February 1850	Brady C	Blakeney	Whately
25 July 1851	Brady C	Blakeney
8 January 1853	Thomas Langlois Lefroy LCJ	Blakeney	Whately
25 July 1853	Brady C	Blakeney	Whately
16 March 1855	Brady C	John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton	Whately
8 November 1855	Brady C	Seaton	Whately
23 October 1856	Brady C	Seaton	Whately
4 May 1857	Brady C	Seaton	Whately
22 October 1857	Brady C	Seaton	Whately
10 March 1858	Blackburne LJAC	Seaton	Whately
11 April 1859	Joseph Napier C	Seaton	Whately
4 June 1859	Napier C		Whately
5 July 1859	Brady C	Seaton
12 April 1860	Brady C	George Brown
12 December 1860	Brady C	Brown	Whately
17 October 1861	Brady C	Brown	Whately
13 August 1862	Brady C	Brown
6 March 1863	Brady C	Brown	Whately
16 October 1863	Brady C	Brown	Beresford (Armagh)[n 4]
11 April 1864	Brady C	Brown	Richard Chenevix Trench
3 October 1865	Brady C	Hugh Rose (later 1st Baron Strathnairn)
5 May 1866	Brady C	Rose	Trench
17 July 1866	Blackburne C		Trench
15 December 1868	Jonathan Christian LJAC	Strathnairn	Trench
24 December 1868		Strathnairn	Trench
13 June 1870	Edward Sullivan MR			Maziere Brady (ex-C)
20 August 1870		William Mansfield (later 1st Baron Sandhurst)		Brady
9 September 1878	John Thomas Ball C Hedges Eyre Chatterton VC	John Michel
7 March 1879	Ball C Chatterton VC
11 June 1887				Ball (ex-C)
1 July 1887	Chatterton VC	Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar		Ball (ex-C)
3 January 1894	Samuel Walker C	Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
19 March 1894	Walker C	Wolseley
4 June 1894	Walker C	Wolseley
30 July 1894	Walker C	Wolseley
9 July 1895	Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne C Chatterton VC
11 September 1895	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC			Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore (Irish representative peer)
5 November 1895	Gerald FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC			Belmore
4 February 1896	Andrew Porter MR Chatterton VC
9 March 1896	Porter MR Chatterton VC
20 March 1896	Chatterton VC	Frederick Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar (later 1st Earl Roberts)
22 April 1896	Porter MR Chatterton VC	Roberts
2 May 1896	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA	Roberts
26 May 1896	FitzGibbon LJA	Roberts
12 September 1896	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC			Belmore
7 December 1896	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA	Roberts
5 January 1897	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
12 January 1897	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
22 February 1897	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC	Roberts
4 March 1897	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
19 March 1897	Ashbourne C Porter MR Chatterton VC
4 May 1897	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
26 May 1897	Porter MR Chatterton VC
9 September 1897	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA	Roberts		Belmore
12 November 1897	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC	Roberts		Belmore
26 November 1897	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC	Roberts
16 December 1897	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC			Belmore
8 January 1898	FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC	Roberts
12 February 1898	Ashbourne C	Roberts
22 February 1898	Ashbourne C Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
11 March 1898	Porter MR Chatterton VC
19 March 1898	Ashbourne C Porter MR Chatterton VC	Roberts
18 April 1898	Ashbourne C Porter MR Chatterton VC
9 May 1898	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
13 August 1898	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC
29 August 1898	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC
14 September 1898	FitzGibbon LJA	Roberts
29 October 1898	FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
9 November 1898	Ashbourne C Porter MR Chatterton VC	Roberts
19 November 1898	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
5 December 1898	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
20 January 1899	Porter MR Chatterton VC	Roberts
13 February 1899	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA	Roberts
20 March 1899	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC	Roberts
1 May 1899	Ashbourne C Porter MR
5 May 1899	FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
2 June 1899	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
4 July 1899	FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
28 August 1899	Ashbourne C Porter MR Chatterton VC
1 November 1899	Ashbourne C Chatterton VC	Roberts
10 November 1899	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
21 November 1899	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA Chatterton VC
25 January 1900	Ashbourne C Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
28 February 1900	Ashbourne C Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
9 March 1900	Porter MR			Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt (Irish representative peer) Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock (Irish representative peer)
22 March 1900	Porter MR			Powerscourt Clonbrock
27 April 1900	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA			Clonbrock
26 May 1900	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
3 September 1900	Ashbourne C			Powerscourt Clonbrock
17 November 1900	FitzGibbon LJA			Clonbrock
19 November 1900	Ashbourne C
3 December 1900	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
17 December 1900	Ashbourne C Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
17 January 1901	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
18 January 1901				Clonbrock
1 February 1901	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA			Clonbrock
13 February 1901	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
19 March 1901	Ashbourne C Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
31 August 1901	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA			Powerscourt
31 August 1901	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA			Powerscourt
28 October 1901	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Hugh Holmes LJA
18 November 1901	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
20 November 1901	Ashbourne C			Powerscourt
5 December 1901	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA
18 December 1901	Porter MR FilzGibbon LJA
13 January 1902	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA
13 February 1902	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA
10 March 1902	Porter MR Holmes LJA
19 March 1902	Porter MR Holmes LJA
7 April 1902	FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA
10 July 1902	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
24 July 1902	Ashbourne C Porter MR
6 August 1902	Porter MR FitzGibbon LJA
13 August 1902	Ashbourne C			Powerscourt
18 August 1902	Ashbourne C			Powerscourt
5 November 1902	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA
3 January 1903	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA			Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo (Irish representative peer)
20 March 1903				Mayo James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde
5 May 1903	FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA
8 June 1903	FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA
29 June 1903	FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA James Andrews J
9 November 1903	FitzGibbon LJA Holmes LJA
29 January 1904	FitzGibbon LJA Andrews J
5 April 1904	Holmes LJA			Mayo
7 July 1904	Ashbourne C Holmes LJA	Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell		Ormonde
4 October 1904	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA	Grenfell
8 December 1904	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA
25 January 1905	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA
20 March 1905		Grenfell		Ormonde
22nd April 1905	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA	Grenfell
12 October 1905	Ashbourne C FitzGibbon LJA
4 November 1905	Holmes LJA	Grenfell
13 December 1905	Walker C	Grenfell
29 March 1906	Walker C William Moore Johnson J	Grenfell		Charles Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill (Former Solicitor General for Ireland)
9 June 1906	Walker C Johnson J			Hemphill
4 August 1906	Walker C Johnson J
4 September 1906	Walker C			Hemphill
19 December 1906	Walker C Johnson J			Hemphill
22 February 1907	Johnson J			Hemphill
22 February 1907	Johnson J			Hemphill
25 October 1907	Walker C Johnson J
15 September 1908	Walker C Johnson J
28 June 1908	Walker C Johnson J
7 August 1909	Walker C	Neville Lyttelton
6 October 1909	Johnson J	Lyttelton
15 December 1909	Walker C	Lyttelton		William Moore Johnson (ex-J)
21 July 1910	Walker C			Johnson
13 August 1910	Richard Cherry LJA			Johnson
15 September 1910	Walker C			Johnson
16 December 1910	Walker C Cherry LJA			Johnson
9 June 1911	Walker C Cherry LJA			Johnson
18 July 1911	Walker C			Johnson
1 September 1911	Cherry LJA			Johnson
19 February 1912	Cherry LJA	Lyttelton
25 June 1912	Holmes LJA Cherry LJA
28 December 1912	Cherry LJA James Owens Wylie J	Arthur Paget
15 March 1913		Paget		Johnson
7 May 1913	Cherry LJA Wylie J
21 May 1913	Wylie J	Paget
6 June 1913	Cherry LJA Wylie J
26 June 1913	Cherry LJA Wylie J
4 October 1913	Cherry LJA
16 December 1913	Holmes LJA Cherry LJA
26 January 1914	Holmes LJA Cherry LJA
17 February 1914	Wylie J	Paget
1 May 1914	Cherry LCJ Wylie J	Paget
22 December 1915	Cherry LCJ Wylie J			David Harrel (Former Under-Secretary for Ireland)
10 May 1915	Cherry LCJ Wylie J			Harrel
4 December 1915	Cherry LCJ Wylie J
12 February 1916	Cherry LCJ Wylie J
11 July 1916[n 5]	Cherry LCJ Wylie J Jonathan Pim J			Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown Harrel
11 September 1916	Cherry LCJ			Harrel
11 November 1916	Wylie J Pim J
29 January 1917	Wylie J Pim J
19 March 1917	Wylie J			Richard Cherry (ex-LCJ)
14 May 1917	Pim J			Cherry
13 August 1917	James Campbell LCJ Wylie J	Bryan Mahon
24 July 1918	Campbell C Wylie J
l2 November 1918	Campbell C Wylie J Pim J
28 January 1919	Campbell C Wylie J	Frederick Shaw
28 January 1919	Campbell C Wylie J	Shaw
12 June 1919	Campbell C John Ross J	Shaw
21 October 1919	Campbell C	Shaw
14 November 1919	Campbell C Ross J
26 November 1919	Campbell C Ross J
24 April 1920	Campbell C Ross J	Nevil Macready
13 May 1920	Campbell C Ross J
18 May 1920	Pim J	Macready
Notes Link is to gazette announcement of the appointments, from The Edinburgh Gazette unless stated. Postnominal letters indicate judicial office as follows: C = Lord Chancellor LCJ = Lord Chief Justice MR = Master of the Rolls LJA = Lord Justice of Appeal VC = Vice-Chancellor LJAC = Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery J = Justice of the High Court See is Dublin unless indicated otherwise. Dublin vacant, Whately having died From The London Gazette. These five were appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom in Whitehall rather than the Irish seal in Dublin.[34] They served between the resignation of Lord Lieutenant Viscount Wimborne after the Easter Rising and his reappointment on 11 August 1916 with a new Chief Secretary (Henry Duke replacing Augustine Birrell).[35] Since martial law was in place under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914, General Sir John Maxwell wielded more power as General Officer Commanding in Ireland.[36]

5 May 1921:

• Six Lords Justices were sworn in, including the first three Catholics^[37]

27 June 1921:

• Nevil Macready, General Officer Commanding in Ireland, was sworn in as a Lord Justice in order to swear in Sir John Ross as Lord Chancellor. The Lords Justice previously appointed were all unavailable owing to the Anglo-Irish War.^[38]

28 June 1921:

• The Lord Chief Justice Thomas Molony and the Master of the Rolls Charles O'Connor as Lords Justices opened the inoperative Parliament of Southern Ireland.^[39] (The Lord Lieutenant Viscount FitzAlan had opened the operative Parliament of Northern Ireland in person on 7 June.^[40])

See also

• Presidential Commission (Ireland), three officials who collectively deputise for the President of Ireland

Various deputies for the British monarch:

• Regency Acts provide for a regent during a monarch's total incapacity
• Counsellor of State during partial incapacity, such as when abroad
• Lords Commissioners for routine Parliamentary functions
• Lords Justices for the government of Northern Ireland, deputised for the Governor of Northern Ireland (1922–1972)

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