Overview
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
References
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