• The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom...
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    government of Ireland in practice was usually in the hands of the Lord Deputy up to the 17th century, and later of the Chief Secretary for Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant...
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    Henry Sidney (category Lords Lieutenant of Ireland)
    was an English soldier, politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland. He was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst (1482 – 11 February 1553) and...
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    Sellenger; c. 1496 – 16 March 1559), of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle in Kent, was an English politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period. Anthony...
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    inherited the title of Earl of Kildare and position of Lord Deputy of Ireland from his father. He was the son of The 8th Earl of Kildare and his first...
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    Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester (category Lords Lieutenant of Ireland)
    Sir Arthur Chichester), of Carrickfergus in Ireland, was an English administrator and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1605 to 1616. He...
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    Radclyffe (or Ratclyffe), 3rd Earl of Sussex KG (c. 1525 – 9 June 1583), was Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading...
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    General boundaries of lordships in Ulster. 1584 – General boundaries of the counties of Ulster created by the Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir John Perrott....
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  • English Lord Justice of Ireland and afterwards Lord Deputy of Ireland. In 1587, as Governor of Fotheringhay Castle, he supervised the execution of the death...
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  • during which a Lord Deputy or Lord Justice would act as chief governor. The Irish Act of Union merged the Kingdom of Ireland with the Kingdom of Great Britain...
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  • Despite a record of conflict with other members of the nobility, he enjoyed the confidence of the King, who appointed him Lord Deputy of Ireland, an office...
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    James created him Earl of Tyrconnell and later made him Viceroy, or Lord Deputy of Ireland: he immediately began building a Catholic establishment by admitting...
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    office of Lieutenant (appointed by letters patent and styled "Lord Lieutenant"), and empowered the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to appoint Deputy Lieutenants...
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    John Perrot (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801))
    was a member of the Welsh gentry who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. It was formerly...
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    England and then of Great Britain, and was administered from Dublin Castle by a viceroy appointed by the English king: the Lord Deputy of Ireland. Aside from...
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    FitzGeralds of Kildare – to keep the costs of running Ireland down and to protect the Pale. The King's Lord Deputy of Ireland was chief of the administration...
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    1st Earl of Devonshire, KG (pronounced Blunt; 1563 – 3 April 1606) was an English nobleman and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen...
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  • William Skeffington (category Lords Lieutenant of Ireland)
    knight who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland. William Skeffington was born in Skeffington Hall, Leicestershire, the eldest son of Thomas Skeffington by...
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  • Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the...
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  • Leonard Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1479/1492 – 28 July 1541), known as Lord Leonard Grey prior to 1536, served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to...
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    served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I. From 1632 to 1640 he was Lord Deputy of Ireland, where he established a strong authoritarian...
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    constantly been a pain for the English administration of the Pale, petitioned the Lord Deputy of Ireland to turn their district into its own county, Wicklow...
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    of Governor of Flushing in 1587, but was recalled on his own initiative the following year. In 1594 he was appointed to the office of Lord Deputy of Ireland...
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  • James mac Sorley MacDonnell, as Lord of the Route and the Glynns in 1601, he submitted to Mountjoy, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, in 1602. In 1618, he became...
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    Mór) or "The Great Earl" (An tIarla Mór), was Ireland's premier peer. He served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1477 to 1494, and from 1496 onward. His...
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  • Thomas Mortimer (category Justiciars of Ireland)
    appointment of Thomas as Lord Deputy and Lord Chief Justice. On the appointment of Sir Philip Courtenay as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in February 1383, Thomas...
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  • Dunes 6 December 1658, Richard Beke. Knights made in Ireland by Henry Cromwell, lord deputy of Ireland. 24 November 1657, Matthew Thomlinson — (at Dublin...
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    In the United Kingdom, a deputy lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the lord-lieutenant of a lieutenancy area – an English...
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    Lord Mountjoy, served as the Lord Deputy of Ireland from January 1600 to April 1603, after which he was promoted to the more prestigious title Lord Lieutenant...
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  • James Croft (category Lords Lieutenant of Ireland)
    who was Lord Deputy of Ireland, and MP for Herefordshire in the Parliament of England. He was born the second but eldest surviving son of Sir Richard...
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