Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry
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This is a list of people to have been Lord Lieutenant
of County Londonderry
. The office was created on 23 August 1831.
Lord Lieutenant
The title Lord Lieutenant is given to the British monarch's personal representatives in the United Kingdom, usually in a county or similar circumscription, with varying tasks throughout history. Usually a retired local notable, senior military officer, peer or business person is given the post...
of County Londonderry
County Londonderry
The place name Derry is an anglicisation of the old Irish Daire meaning oak-grove or oak-wood. As with the city, its name is subject to the Derry/Londonderry name dispute, with the form Derry preferred by nationalists and Londonderry preferred by unionists...
. The office was created on 23 August 1831.
County Londonderry
- George Canning, 1st Baron GarvaghGeorge Canning, 1st Baron GarvaghGeorge Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh FRS was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament.Garvagh was the son of Paul Canning and the grandson of Stratford Canning of Garvagh in County Londonderry. Prime Minister George Canning and the diplomat Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, were his...
7 October 1831 – 20 August 1840 - Sir Robert Ferguson, 2nd BaronetSir Robert Ferguson, 2nd BaronetSir Robert Alexander Ferguson, 1st Baronet was a Whig and then Liberal Party politician from Ireland.Ferguson succeeded to the baronetcy in July 1808, after the first baronet, Sir Andrew Ferguson was killed in accident on a bridge in Moville, County Donegal.He was appointed High Sheriff of Tyrone...
1840 – 13 March 1860 - Acheson Lyle 10 April 1860 – 22 April 1870
- Robert Peel DawsonRobert Peel DawsonColonel Robert Peel Dawson was an Irish Member of the House of Commons at Westminster. He was one of the Dawson family of Castledawson and lived at Moyola Park, County Londonderry. He served as MP for County Londonderry from 1859 to 1874.He was the son of The Rt. Hon...
25 June 1870 – 2 September 1877 - Sir Henry Bruce, 3rd BaronetSir Henry Bruce, 3rd BaronetSir Henry Hervey Bruce, 3rd Baronet was an Irish Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Coleraine from 1862 to 1874, and from 1880 to 1885....
1877 – 8 December 1907 - John CookeJohn CookeJohn Cooke may refer to:*John Cooke , Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University*John Cooke *John Cooke , English cricketer...
24 January 1908 – December 1910 - David Cleghorn Hogg 7 January 1911 – 22 August 1914
- James Jackson Clark 31 March 1915 – 1926
- Maurice Marcus McCausland 39 October 1926 – 14 January 1938
- Sir Charles Stronge, 7th Baronet 28 June 1938 – 5 December 1939
- William Lowry Lenox-Conyngham 2 February 1940 – 5 June 1957
- Sir Dudley McCorkellDudley McCorkellSir Dudley Evelyn Bruce McCorkell, MBE, DL, JP was a Mayor of Derry , Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry and ex officio member of the Senate of Northern Ireland.-Career:...
10 October 1957 – 30 May 1960 - Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st BaronetSir Henry Mulholland, 1st BaronetSir Henry George Hill Mulholland, 1st Baronet PC , was a Northern Ireland politician.Mulholland was the third son of Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath, and Norah Louisa Fanny Ward...
17 October 1960 – 1965 - Sir Michael McCorkellMichael McCorkellColonel Sir Michael McCorkell, KCVO, OBE, TD, JP, DL was an Northern Irish soldier and British public servant, emulating the high level of British public service of successive generations of the McCorkell family, being Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry for 25 years...
13 June 1975 – 2000 - Denis Desmond 14 June 2000 – present