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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 of Ireland.^[1] He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland. The plural form is "Lords Deputy".

List of Lords Deputy

Lordship of Ireland

• Sir Thomas Mortimer (1382–1383)


• 
  Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (1454–1459)


• 
  William Sherwood (1462)


• 
  Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond (1463–1467)


• 
  John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester (1467–1468)


• 
  Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (1468–1475)


• 
  William Sherwood (1475–1477)


• 
  Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1477)


• 
  Henry Grey, 4th (7th) Baron Grey of Codnor (1478–1479)


• 
  Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1479–?1494)


• 
  Walter Fitzsimon, Archbishop of Dublin (1492)


• 
  Robert Preston, 1st Viscount Gormanston (1493–1494)


• 
  Edward Poynings (1494–1496)


• 
  Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (1496–1513)


• 
  Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1513–1518)


• Sir Maurice Fitzgerald ^[2]
  


• 
  Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey (1520–1522)^[3]
  


• 
  Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde (1522–1524)


• Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1524–1529)


• Sir William Skeffington (1529–1532)


• Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1532–1534)


• Sir William Skeffington (1534–1535)


• 
  Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane (1536–1540)

Kingdom of Ireland

• 
  Anthony St Leger (1540–1548)


• 
  Edward Bellingham (1548–1549)


• 
  Lord Justices (1549–1550)


• 
  Anthony St Leger (1550–1551)


• 
  James Croft (1551–1552)


• 
  Lord Justices (1552–1553)


• Anthony St Leger (1553–1556)


• 
  Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex (1556–1558) (Lord Lieutenant 1560–1564)^[4]
  


• 
  Sir Nicholas Arnold(1564–1565)


• Sir Henry Sidney (1565–1571) (1575–1578)^[5]
  


• 
  William FitzWilliam (1571–1575) (1588–1594)


• 
  Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton (1580–1582)


• Sir John Perrot (1584–1588)


• 
  William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (1594–1597)


• 
  Thomas Burgh, 7th Baron Strabolgi (1597)


• 
  Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (Lord Lieutenant 1599)


• 
  Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy (later 1st Earl of Devonshire) (1600–1603) (Lord Lieutenant 1603–1604)


• 
  Sir George Cary (1603–1604)


• 
  Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester (1605–1616)^[6]
  


• 
  Sir Oliver St John (1616–1622)^[7]
  


• 
  Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (1622–1629)


• 
  Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1632–1640)


• 
  Christopher Wandesford (1640)


• 
  Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1640–1643) (Lord Lieutenant)


• 
  Henry Ireton (1650–1651)


• 
  Charles Fleetwood (1652–1657)


• 
  Henry Cromwell (1657–1658) (Lord Lieutenant 1658–1659)


• 
  Edmund Ludlow (1659–1660)


• 
  Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (1687–1688)

The title subsequently became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the holder also known informally as the Viceroy.

References

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