Governor of Limerick

The Governor of Limerick was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Limerick in Ireland.

List of governors

 * William de Burgh
 * –1622: Sir Maurice Berkeley
 * 1622–1642: George Courtenay, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle
 * 1650–51: Hugh Dubh O'Neill (during Ireton's siege of the town)
 * 1651–1653: Sir Hardress Waller
 * 1653–1659: Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 1st Baronet
 * c. 1670–1685: Sir William King
 * 1685: Antoine Hamilton
 * 1690: Alexandre de Rainier de Droue, Marquis de Boisseleau (Jacobite)
 * c. 1693: John Simpson
 * c. 1726: Thomas Pierse
 * Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell
 * Thomas Butler, 2nd son of Brinsley Butler, 1st Viscount Lanesborough
 * 1751–1760: Sir John Cope
 * 1761: John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
 * 1770: John Hale
 * 1775: Sir Henry Clinton
 * 10 July 1794: Gerard Lake
 * 1797–1804: Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina
 * 23 May 1804: William Fawcett
 * 4 October 1826: William Knollys
 * 20 March 1834: The post was abolished on the death of Knollys.