Lord Lieutenant of Roscommon

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of County Roscommon.

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. Roscommon was lost to the United Kingdom in 1922 upon the formation of the Irish Free State.

Governors

Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston: 1772–1797 ^[2]
Maurice Mahon, 1st Baron Hartland^[3] (died 1819)
Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet: 1782–1797^[4]
Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon:^[3] 1797–1813
Thomas Mahon, 2nd Baron Hartland: –1831^[5]
Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton: –1831^[5]
Arthur French: 1821–1831^[6]

Lord Lieutenants

The 1st Viscount Lorton: 7 October 1831 – 20 November 1854
The 1st Baron de Freyne: 18 December 1854 – 29 September 1856
Edward King Tenison: 4 December 1856 – 19 June 1878
Edward Robert King-Harman: 5 October 1878 – 10 June 1888
The 8th Earl of Kingston: 25 July 1888 – 13 January 1896
Charles Owen O'Conor, The O'Conor Don: 5 March 1896 – 30 June 1906
Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor: 5 September 1906 – 23 February 1917
William John Talbot: 25 August 1917 – 1922

References

Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2008.

^ G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b).
^ "Irish Counties". worldleadersindex.org.
^ ^a ^b Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 373.
^ E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800 (2002) vol. III, p. 539.
^ ^a ^b The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
^ Stephen Farrell, FRENCH, Arthur II (?1788-1856), of French Park, co. Roscommon in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).