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Governor of Galway

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The Governor of Galway was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Galway in the west of Ireland. The post became a sinecure and in 1833 was to be abolished from the next vacancy.

List of Governors

  • 1616: Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde (died 1635)
  • Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (died 1657)
  • Henry de Burgh
  • 1651: General Preston (fled to France, 1651)
  • 1652: Colonel Peter Stubbers (for Parliament)
  • 1655: Colonel Thomas Sadleir
  • –1691: Henry Dillon, 8th Viscount Dillon
  • 1691: Sir Henry Belasyse
  • John Eyre
  • 1712: Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde
  • 1714: John Ussher
  • 1718: George St George, 1st Baron St George
  • 1747–: Stratford Eyre (died 1765)
  • 1768–1793: Robert Sandford
  • 1793–1825: Peter Daly
  • 1826–1839: Sir John Elley

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