Lord President of Connaught
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The Lord President of Connaught was a military leader with wide-ranging powers, reaching into the civil sphere, in the English government of Connaught
in Ireland, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Connacht
Connacht , formerly anglicised as Connaught, is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the west of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for...
in Ireland, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- 1569-1572 Sir Edward Fitton
- 1579-1581 Sir Nicholas Malby
- 1584 Richard Bingham
- 1597-1599 Sir Conyers Clifford
- 1604-1616 Richard Burke, 4th Earl of ClanricardeRichard Burke, 4th Earl of ClanricardeRichard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde was an Irish nobleman. He was the son of Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde and Honora Burke, daughter of John Burke....
- 1616-1644 Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount WilmotCharles Wilmot, 1st Viscount WilmotCharles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot of Athlone was an English soldier active in Ireland.-Life:He was the son of Edward Wilmot of Culham and Elizabeth Stafford...
- Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount DillonTheobald Dillon, 1st Viscount DillonTheobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon , was an Irish military commander and adventurer, reputedly descended from the Anglo-Norman Henry le Dillon. He held extensive lands in Connaught and Westmeath. He was a loyal supporter of Elizabeth I of England in her Irish wars...
, according to some sources, had the title from c. 1621, but Wilmot certainly continued in the post for life. - 1630 (joint) Roger Jones, 1st Viscount RanelaghRoger Jones, 1st Viscount RanelaghRoger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh PC was a member of the Peerage of Ireland and lord president of Connaught. He was Chief Leader of the Army and Forces of Connaught during the early years of the Irish Confederate Wars...
- c.1642 (joint) Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount DillonThomas Dillon, 4th Viscount DillonThomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon was an Irish peer.In 1630 converted to become a Protestant when he succeeded his nephew as Viscount Dillon. He subsequently took his seat in Parliament....
- 1644-1658 (joint with Dillon) Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of RochesterHenry Wilmot, 1st Earl of RochesterLieutenant-General Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester , known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The Viscount Wilmot between 1644 and 1652, was an English Cavalier who fought for the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.-Early life:Wilmot's family was descended from...
- c.1643 Malachias O'Queely (Confederation)
- 1640s Sir Charles Coote (royalist turned parliamentarian)
- 1661 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of StrattonJohn Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of StrattonJohn Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton was an English royalist soldier. From 1648 he was closely associated with James, Duke of York, and rose to prominence, fortune and fame.-First English Civil War:...
, appointed for life. He died in 1678.
Deputies and vice-president
- 1580-1581 Sir Thomas NorrisSir Thomas NorrisSir Thomas Norris was an English soldier, made Lord President of Munster in Ireland.-Life:He was the fifth son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys of Rycote, and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1571, aged 15, graduating B.A. on 6 April 1576...
, acting - 1596-1597 Sir Thomas Norris, provisional