Lord Lieutenant of Queen's County

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Queen's County.

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. Appointments to the position ended with the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Governors

• Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath: July–December 1661
• William Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow: 1750–1779
• John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington: –1774
• Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda: 1774–1799;^[2] again in 1805^[3]
• William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough: 1783^[4]–1831^[5]
• Charles Coote, 2nd Baron Castle Coote:^[3] –1823
• Thomas Cosby: –1831^[5]

Lord Lieutenants

• The Viscount de Vesci: 17 October 1831 – 19 October 1855
• The Lord Castletown: 17 November 1855 – 22 January 1883
• The Viscount de Vesci: 28 March 1883 – December 1900
• Sir Algernon Coote, Bt: 28 December 1900 – 22 October 1920
• Sir Hutcheson Poë, Bt: 11 November 1920 – 1922