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Secretary of State (Ireland)

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The Principal Secretary of State, or Principal Secretary of the Council, was a government office in the Kingdom of Ireland. It was abolished in 1801 when Ireland became part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Acts of Union 1800.

List of Secretaries

  • by 1576: John Chalenor
  • 1581: Sir Geoffrey Fenton and another
  • 1603: Sir Richard Cooke
  • 1612: Sir Dudley Norton
  • 1616: Francis Annesley, 1st Baron Mountnorris
  • 1634: Philip Mainwaring
  • 1661: Sir Paul Davys (granted the office in reversion after Mainwaring)
  • 1665: George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough (in reversion after Davys)
  • 1678: Sir John Davys (in reversion after Lane)
  • 1690: Sir Robert Southwell
  • 1702: Edward Southwell
  • 1730: Edward Southwell
  • 1746: Edward Weston
  • 1755: Thomas Carter
  • 1763: Philip Tisdall
  • 1766: John Hely-Hutchinson (in reversion, succeeded 1777)
  • 1795: Edmund Henry Pery, 2nd Baron Glentworth
  • 1796: Thomas Pelham
  • 1797: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
  • 1801: Charles Abbot

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    Secretary of State (Ireland) Wikipedia
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