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Lords Justices of Ireland
Date Judges[n 1] Archbishops[n 2] Commons[n 3] Lords Soldiers Others Refs
1 Apr 1540 William Brereton [3]
12 Oct 1543 William Brabazon (Vice-Treasurer)
16 Feb 1546 Brabazon
27 Dec 1549 Francis Bryan
2 Feb 1550 Brabazon
6 Dec 1552
12 Nov 1557 Hugh Curwen Henry Sidney (Vice-Treasurer)
18 Jan 1558 Sidney
4 Aug 1558 Sidney
13 Dec 1558 Sidney
18 Jan 1560 William FitzWilliam (Vice-Treasurer)
10 Jan 1561 FitzWilliam
20 Dec 1561 FitzWilliam
2 May 1564 Nicholas Arnold
9 Oct 1567 Robert Weston FitzWilliam
1 Apr 1571 FitzWilliam
27 Apr 1578 William Drury (Lord President of Munster)
11 Oct 1579 William Pelham
3 Feb 1580 Pelham
25 Aug 1582 Adam Loftus (Dublin)[n 4] Henry Wallop (Vice-Treasurer)
26 Nov 1597 Loftus Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond (Treasurer) Thomas Norris (Lord President of Munster)
Robert Gardiner LCJ
24 Sep 1599 Loftus George Carey (Vice-Treasurer)
9 Apr 1603 Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy (LD 12th April; LL 25th April)
4 Mar 1614 Richard Wingfield
10 Feb 1616 John Denham LCJ
2 May 1622 Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus[n 4] Wingfield, now Viscount Powerscourt
26 Oct 1629 Loftus Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
3 July, 1636 Loftus Christopher Wandesford
12 Sep 1639 Wandesford Robert, Baron Dillon of Kilkenny-West
30 Dec 1640 Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont Dillon of Kilkenny-West
9 Feb 1641
31 Mar 1643 Borlase Sir Henry Tichborne
31 Dec 1660 Maurice Eustace
23 Dec 1661 Eustace Orrery
27 May 1671 Michael Boyle Arthur Forbes, Viscount Granard
5 July, 1675 Boyle Granard
24 Feb 1685 Boyle
18 Aug 1687 Alexander Fitton William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde
4 Sep 1690 Henry Sydney Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (Paymaster-General)
4 Dec 1690 Charles Porter
  • Coningsby
  • Sydney, now Viscount Sydney
6 Oct 1692 William Wolseley
26 June, 1693 [4]
1 July, 1693 Porter Wyche
16 May 1696 Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington Wolseley
2 June, 1696 Porter
10 July, 1696 Porter Charles Coote, 3rd Earl of Mountrath
6 Feb 1697 Henry de Massue, 1st Earl of Galway
14 May 1697 Galway
18 May 1699 Galway
  • Villiers, now 1st Earl of Jersey
  • Paulet, now 2nd Duke of Bolton
29 June, 1699 Galway Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley
4 Apr 1701 Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander (Master of the Ordnance)
11 Apr 1702 Thomas Erle
14 Mar 1704 Richard Cox Erle Mount Alexander
13 Apr 1704 Cox Erle
27 June, 1705 Cox John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
15 Feb 1707 Cox
27 Nov 1707 Richard Freeman
13 Sep 1709 Freeman
29 Aug 1710 Freeman
22 Jan 1711 Constantine Phipps
19 Nov 1711 Phipps
10 Mar 1712 Phipps John Vesey (Tuam)
17 Apr 1714 Phipps
4 Sep 1714
Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare
6 Sep 1715
20 Mar 1717 Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton King William Conolly
7 Jan 1718 Midleton King Conolly
20 Nov 1719 Midleton Conolly
22 Feb 1722 King Conolly Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
29 Mar 1723 Midleton King Conolly Shannon
8 May 1724 Midleton Conolly Shannon
20 May 1724 Midleton Conolly Shannon
2 Apr 1726 Richard West Hugh Boulter Conolly
23 Dec 1726 Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham Boulter Conolly
15 May 1728 Wyndham Boulter Conolly
22 Apr 1730 Wyndham Boulter Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet
24 Apr 1732 Wyndham Boulter Gore
23 May 1733 Wyndham Boulter
3 May 1734 Wyndham Boulter Henry Boyle
19 May 1736 Wyndham Boulter Boyle
28 Mar 1738 Wyndham Boulter Boyle
18 Apr 1740 Robert Jocelyn Boulter Boyle
18 Feb 1742 Boulter Boyle
4 June, 1742 Boulter Boyle
3 Dec 1742 Jocelyn John Hoadly
12 Apr 1744 Robert Jocelyn, now 1st Baron Newport Hoadly Boyle
25 Apr 1746 Newport Hoadly Boyle
10 Apr 1747 Newport Boyle
20 Apr 1748 Newport Boyle
31 Jan 1749 Newport Boyle
31 July, 1749 Newport Boyle
20 Apr 1750 Newport Boyle
10 Mar 1752 St George Caulfeild LCJ
27 May 1752 Robert Jocelyn, now 1st Viscount Jocelyn Boyle
11 May 1754 Jocelyn Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough
11 May 1756 Jocelyn Bessborough
20 Sep 1756 Bessborough
29 Apr 1758 John Ponsonby Henry Boyle, now 1st Earl of Shannon
2 May, 1760 Ponsonby Shannon
15 May 1761 Ponsonby Shannon
20 Apr 1762 Ponsonby Shannon
11 May 1764 Ponsonby Shannon
22 Feb 1765 John Bowes, 1st Baron Bowes Ponsonby
13 Mar 1766
9 June, 1766 Bowes Ponsonby
27 Oct 1787 James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby John Foster
25 June, 1789 John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare Robinson Foster
24 Mar 1795 Clare William Newcome
13 Mar 1815 Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners William Stuart General Sir George Hewett
Notes
  1. ^ Lord Chancellor of Ireland unless stated; LCJ = Lord Chief Justice
  2. ^ Church of Ireland archbishops; Archbishop of Armagh unless stated.
  3. ^ From 1715 onwards, a Lord Justice who was in the Commons was always its Speaker; before then this was never the case.
  4. ^ a b Viscount Loftus was the nephew of Archbishop Adam Loftus; both served as Lord Chancellor.

Sources edit

  • Hughes, James L. J. (1960). Patentee Officers in Ireland, 1173-1826: Including High Sheriffs, 1661–1684 and 1761–1816 (PDF). Dublin: Stationery Office – via Irish Manuscripts Commission. sourced from:
    • Lascelles, Rowley (1852). Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae or The Establishments of Ireland. Irish Record Commissioners. vol. II pp. 1–13, 197–201, vol. III Synoptical Table (inset at p. 52z) and pp. 53–56.

References edit

  1. ^ East Dean (de East Dean, Estdene, Estdean), William DIB
  2. ^ Rochelle (Rokele, Rokesle, Rupella, Rupellis), Richard de la DIB
  3. ^ Pollard, Albert Frederick (1901). "Brereton, William". Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement. Retrieved 8 November 2022 – via wikisource.
  4. ^ Paula Watson, DUNCOMBE, William (c.1647-1704), of Battlesden, Beds Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002