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Chronology

                   Chief Executive Officers

 

PRIME MINISTER      LORD LIEUTENANT         IRISH SECRETARY              

 

(KING GEORGE III 1760-1820) ______________________________________________

 

TORY

William Pitt 1783 to    Marquis Cornwallis,                             *Lord Castlereagh 1798

Mar 1801, Tory           appointed by Pitt, 1798                       to May 1801

to April 1801

 

.......................................................................................................................................

TORY

Henry Addington,        Earl Hardwicke, April                         Charles Abbot, May

(Viscount Sidmouth)   1801 to Mar 1806                                1801 to Feb 1802

Mar 1801 to May         Portland Whig or Tory                         William Wickham, Feb

1804                                                                                        1802 to Jan 1804

                                                                                                Evan Nepean, Jan to

                                                                                                Sept 1804 

.....................……………………………………………………………………………….

TORY

William Pitt, May                               

1804    to Jan 1806                                                                  Nicholas Vansittart,

                                                                                                Jan to Sept 1805   

                                   (Earl of Powis appointed                     Charles Long Oct 1805 to Feb 1806

                                   but never took office Oct 1805) 

.......................................................................................................................................

WHIG

Lord Grenville, Feb     Duke of Bedford, Feb                                     William Elliot,

1806 to Mar 1807        1806 to Mar 1807                                Feb 1806 to Mar 1807

Ministry of All the

Talents

 

....................................................................................................................................…………

TORY

Duke of Portland,        Duke of Richmond, April                    *Sir Arthur Wellesley,

Mar      1807 to Oct,    1807 to June 1813,                              Apr. 1807 to Apr 1809.

1809Whig/Tory          Pittite Tory                                          Robert Dundas, April

                                                                                                to Oct 1809 

TORY

Spencer Perceval, Oct                                                             *William Wellesley

1809 to May 1812, Tory                                                          Pole, Oct 1809 to July 1812

 

(REGENCY OF PRINCE GEORGE THE PRINCE REGENT 1811-1820) ________

 

TORY

Lord Liverpool, June                                                               Robert Peel, July 1812

1812 to April 1827                                                                  to Aug 1818

                                    Earl Whitworth, June 1813    

                                    to Oct 1817                

                                    Earl Talbot, Oct 1817 to

Dec 1821                                             Charles Grant, Aug

                                                                                                1818 to Dec 1821                  

 

(KING GEORGE IV 1820-1830) ________________________________________

 

           

                                    *Marquis Wellesley, Dec                     Henry Goulburn, Dec

                                    1821 to Dec 1827                               1821 to April 1827

                                    Moderate Tory              

..................................................…………………………………………………………………..

TORY

George Canning, April                                                             William Lamb

to Aug 1827. Moderate                                                           (Lord Melbourne),

Tory                                                                                         April 1827 to June                                                                                                                               1828, Whig                 

Viscount Goderich,

Aug-Dec 1827,

Moderate Tory             (Anglesey appointed but                     

                                    Wellesley does not move)      

.....................................................................................................................................……………….

TORY

*Duke of Wellington,  Marquis of Anglesey, Feb        Francis Leveson-

Jan 1828 to Nov 1830 1828 to Mar 1829                    Gower, June 1828 to

(appointment confirmed by     July 1830, (son of Marquis of Stafford) Moderate Tory

                                    Wellington),    

 

(KING WILLIAM IV 1830-1837) _____________________________________________           

 

Duke of Northumberland,       Sir Henry Hardinge,    

                                    Mar 1829 to Dec 1830                        July to Dec 1830

....................................................................................................................................………

WHIG

Earl Grey, Nov 1830   Marquis of Anglesey, Dec       Edward Stanley (Lord

to July 1834                 Dec 1830 to Sept 1833                       Stanley, Earl of Derby),

                                                                                    Dec 1830 to Mar 1833,

                                                                                    Moderate Tory

                                                                                    J.C. Hobhouse, Mar to May

                                                                                    1833

                                                                                    Edward Littleton, May 1833

                                                                                    to Dec 1834

                                    *Marquis Wellesley, Sept                    

                                    1833 to Dec 1834                  

Lord Melbourne, July                          

to Nov 1834. 1st                    

ministry

....................................................................................................................................…………………..

TORY

Robert Peel, Dec 1834            Earl of Haddington Jan to       Sir Henry Hardinge, Dec

to April 1835. 1st        April 1835.                              1834 to April 1835.

ministry.                            

....................................................................................................................................…………

WHIG

Lord Melbourne,          Earl of Mulgrave (2nd              Lord Morpeth

            Marquis of Normanby),           ( Earl of Carlisle), April

Apr 1835 to Aug.        April 1835 to Mar 1839           1835 to Sept 1841

1841 2nd ministry       

(QUEEN VICTORIA 1837-1901) _______________________________________________ 

 

Viscount Ebrington                

                                    (Baron Fortescue) April                      

                                    1839 to Aug 1841                  

......................................................................................................................................

TORY

Robert Peel, Aug         Earl de Grey, Sept 1841          Lord Eliot (Earl

1841to June 1846.       to July 1844                             St.Germans)

2nd ministry                                                                Sept 1841 to Feb 1845           

                                               

                                    Baron Heytesbury, July           

                                    1844 to June 1846                   Sir Thomas Freemantle, Feb

                                                                                    1845 to Feb 1846

                                                                                    Earl of Lincoln (Duke of

                                                                                    Newcastle) Feb to June 1846

                                                                                    not re-elected until May.

....................................................................................................................................…………

WHIG

Lord John Russell,       *Earl of Bessborough,             Henry Labouchere, July 1846

June 1846 to Feb         (Ponsonby/Duncannon)          to July 1847

1852                            July 1846 to May 1847                       

                                    Earl of Clarendon, May           *Sir William Somerville,

                                    1847 to Feb 1852                    July 1847 to Feb 1852

 

Source DNB. Some dates are approximate for some of those appointed did not arrive in Ireland for some months after their appointment. Moderate Tory means one prepared to serve under a Whig Prime Minister, but with few exceptions those appointed belonged to the middle ground in politics. Spencer Perceval and Earl de Grey were exceptions. An asterisk indicates an Irishman. George, Prince of Wales, became Prince Regent in place of his mentally incapacitated father, George III, on a restricted basis initially for one year, and then on an unrestricted basis. The adjective 'Regency', like 'Georgian' and 'Victorian', are used loosely in popular usage. The reign of William IV has no adjective of its own, and is usually included under 'Early Victorian'.

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