Governor of Cork

The Governor of Cork was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Cork in Ireland. The office became a sinecure and in 1833 was abolished from the next vacancy.

List of governors of Cork

Governors

• 1644: Major Muschamp
• 1651: Colonel Robert Phaire (for Parliament) (page 175)
• 1672: Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon
• 1678: Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
• 1689: Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare and M. Boileau (for King James II)
• 1690: Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone and Roger McElligott (for King James II)
• 1690: Colonel Hales and Colonel Hastings (for King William)
• 1691: Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington
• 1691: Sir Richard Cox
• 1692: Sir Toby Purcell
• 1698: Sir James Jeffreys
• 1698–1700: Position abolished
• 1701: Sir James Jeffreys
• 1722: James Jeffreys (son of above)
• 1746–?1750: Gervais Parker
• 1752–1764: Lieut-General Sir James St Clair
• 1764–1768: Lord Robert Bertie
• 1768–1778: Col. John Wynne
• 1778–1782: Nicholas Lysaght
• 1782–1789: Thomas Pigott
• 1789–1792: Mountifort Longfield
• 1792–1811: The Earl of Massereene
• 1811–1820: The Lord Beresford
• 1820–1828: Sir Brent Spencer
• 1829–1835: Sir William Inglis

Lieutenant-governors

• c.1760–1765?: James Molesworth
• 1764–1768: John Wynne
• 1768–1769: James St John Jeffereyes
• 1772–1778: William Hull a.k.a. William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale
• 1778–: John Leland
• 1796–1808: John Leland
• 1808–1815: Col. William Dickson
• 1815–1834: James Stirling

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