User:Jnestorius/Chief Governor of Ireland

Title
Oxford Companion to Irish History has articles on all four of:
 * (chief) justiciar
 * (king's) lieutenant
 * (lord) deputy
 * lord lieutenant

F. Elrington Ball says:
 * pre-Tudor chief governor title was variously, king's lieutenant, justiciar, custos, deputy king's lieutenant and deputy justiciar;
 * and after then was variously lord lieutenant, lord deputy, and lord justice.

Mark Duncan:
 * The extent of the evolution of the role can be seen by the various names by which its holders were known. The chief governor of Ireland was known at various times as Justiciar, King’s Lieutenant, Lord Deputy and, finally, as Lord Lieutenant. The term, Lord Lieutenant, was the term applied to all chief governors after the 1690s.

List of offices

 * Justiciar of Ireland (11/12xx-??) — predecessor of both Chief Governor and Lord Chief Justice [wiki redirects to latter]
 * Chief Governor - see also Dublin Castle administration and Privy Council of Ireland
 * King's Lieutenant (14xx-15/16xx)
 * Lord Deputy of Ireland (1382-1688) deputised and de facto head
 * Secretary of State (Ireland) (by 1576–1800)
 * Chief Secretary for Ireland (1566–1922)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (??–1922)
 * Lords Justices of Ireland (1172–1376)
 * Four Courts to 1877
 * Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1232-1922) - head of Irish Chancery, later Court of Chancery (Ireland); later (1721?) also speaker of the Irish House of Lords
 * Commissioners of the Great Seal of Ireland (1605–1875) deputised
 * Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (1324–1924) - head of Court of King's Bench (Ireland) and post-1877 how related to Lord Chancellor
 * Court of Exchequer (Ireland) - Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (1309–1877)
 * Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) - Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas (1274–1877)
 * Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) replaced Four Courts in 1877; Lord Chief Justice was head, but Lord Chancellor continued to outrank — what did the Lord Chancellor actually do?

Statutes
Lots of statutes have wording like "the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland"; last I can find in Statute Law Revision Acts is The County of Dublin Jurors’ and Voters’ Revision Act, 1884. An 1858 act has '"Lord Lieutenant" shall mean the Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being'. Statute Law Revision Acts from 1890 onwards removed the words "or other chief governor or governors" from lots of statutes where it followed "Lord Lieutenant". Some statutes have "Lord Lieutenant, Lord Deputy, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland". 10 Geo I c.6 has "the lord lieutenant, lord deputy, lords justices, or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being".

7 Will 3 c. 5 has "lord deputy or other chief governor"; 14 & 15 Chas II c.?? has "chief governor or governors" (no Lord anything) and 14 & 15 Chas II c.9 has "LL LD or other CG and Gs" on first mention (s.4) and later "CG or Gs" (s.4) and "LD or other CG or Gs" (s.13)

1592:
 * the said Philip (who is to be enlarged) shall make his personal appearance before the lord deputy, or other chief governor or governors, of Ireland, for the time being, and the council, within twenty-one days after monition and warning left at his dwelling house at Belanacarrig; and in the mean space shall behave himself as a loyal and dutiful subject towards her Majesty and the estate; and upon his appearance shall not depart without special licence.