Chief Executive Officers
PRIME
MINISTER LORD LIEUTENANT IRISH
SECRETARY
(KING
GEORGE III 1760-1820)
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TORY
William Pitt 1783 to Marquis Cornwallis, *Lord Castlereagh 1798
Mar 1801, Tory appointed by Pitt, 1798 to
May 1801
to April 1801
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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
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.
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)
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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
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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
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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)
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.
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)
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Duke of Northumberland, Sir Henry Hardinge,
Mar
1829 to Dec 1830 July
to Dec 1830
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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
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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.
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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)
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Viscount Ebrington
(Baron
Fortescue) April
1839
to Aug 1841
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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.
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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'.