Lord Lieutenant of Clare

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of County Clare.

There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors.^[1] The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831.

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• Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond 1714 ^[2]
• William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin 1741–1777
• The Marquess of Thomond^[3]
• The Hon. Sir Francis Nathaniel Burton 1805^[4]–1831^[5]
• The Right Hon. William Vesey FitzGerald 1815^[6]–1831^[5]

• Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lords-Lieutenants (Ireland) 1831-2005". Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2008.

1. ^ G. E. C., ed. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, vol. I (1910) p. 174, n. (b).
2. ^ "O'BRIEN, Henry, 7th Earl of Thomond [I] (1688-1741), of Great Billing, Northants. and co. Clare". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
3. ^ Beatson's Political Index (1806) vol. III, p. 371.
4. ^ Arthur Aspinall, BURTON, Hon. Francis Nathaniel (1766–1832), of Buncraggy, co. Clare. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986).
5. ^ ^{a b} The Royal Kalendar for 1831, p. 389.
6. ^ P. J. Jupp, FITZGERALD (afterwards VESEY FITZGERALD), William (?1782-1843), of Inchicronan, co. Clare. in History of Parliament 1790–1820.

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