Lord Lieutenant of Louth

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Louth.

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.

Governors

• Oliver Plunkett, 6th Baron Louth (died 1679) ^[2]
• Matthew Plunkett, 7th Baron Louth: 1687–1689^[3]
• Viscount Limerick: 1756–1758 ^[4]
• James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil: 1769–1798 (died 1798)
• John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel 1798–1828^[5]
• Thomas Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard 1805–1831 (jointly until 1828)^[6]

Lord Lieutenants

• Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew 9 December 1831 – 10 December 1866
• John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell 14 January 1867 – 17 April 1879
• Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene 13 November 1879 – March 1898
• George Bellew-Bryan, 4th Baron Bellew 14 March 1898 – 15 July 1911
• Sir Alan Bellingham, 4th Baronet 4 November 1911 – 9 June 1921
• Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet 22 July 1921 – 1922