Governor of Kinsale
British military appointment
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The governor of Kinsale was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Kinsale and Charles Fort in County Cork. The office became a sinecure and in 1833 was to be abolished from the next vacancy.
List of governors of Kinsale and Charles Fort
Governors
- 1690: Charles Churchill
- 1693: The Earl of Inchiquin
- 1719: Lord Harry Powlett
- 1723: Humphrey Gore[1]
- 1726: Gervais Parker
- 1739–1740: John Ligonier
- 1749: Robert Frazer[2]
- Philip Anstruther
- 1759–1764: John Folliott
- 1765–1770: The Earl of Drogheda
- 20 March 1770: James Gisborne
- 8 September 1770–1801: The Lord Rossmore
- 1801–1806: William Neville Gardiner[3]
- 1806–1819: Sir Cornelius Cuyler[4]
- 1819–1827: Sir David Baird
- 1827–1830: William Guard[5]
- 1830–1849: Sir Warren Marmaduke Peacocke[6]
Lieutenant-governors
- c. 1697: James Waller (died 1702)
- Henry Hawley (died 1724)
- 1724: George Bate
- 1725: Gervais Parker
- 1747–1759: John Folliott[7]
- –1776: Nicholas Price
- 1776– : Sir Francis James Buchanan[8]
- 1783–1786: John Hancock[9]
- 1786–1789: George Bernard[10]
- 1789–1827: Arthur Browne[11]
- 1827–1829: Sir William Inglis
- 1829–1833: John Sulivan Wood[12]