Governor of Limerick
Historic military role at Limerick, Ireland
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The Governor of Limerick was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Limerick in Ireland.
List of governors
- William de Burgh
- –1622: Sir Maurice Berkeley
- 1622–1642: George Courtenay, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle[1]
- 1650–51: Hugh Dubh O'Neill (during Ireton's siege of the town)
- 1651–1653: Sir Hardress Waller[2]
- 1653–1659: Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 1st Baronet[3]
- c. 1670–1685: Sir William King[4]
- 1685: Antoine Hamilton[5]
- 1690: Alexandre de Rainier de Droue, Marquis de Boisseleau (Jacobite)
- c. 1693: John Simpson
- c. 1726: Thomas Pierse
- Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell[6]
- Thomas Butler, 2nd son of Brinsley Butler, 1st Viscount Lanesborough[7]
- 1751–1760: Sir John Cope[8]
- 1761: John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll[8]
- 1770: John Hale[8]
- 1775: Sir Henry Clinton[8]
- 10 July 1794: Gerard Lake[9]
- 1797–1804: Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina[10]
- 23 May 1804: William Fawcett[11]
- 4 October 1826: William Knollys[12]
- 20 March 1834: The post was abolished on the death of Knollys.