The Under-Secretary for Ireland (Permanent Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) was the permanent head of the British administration in Ireland prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.
Among the best-known holders of the office was
Under-Secretaries for Ireland (prior to 1835 )
Thomas Waite (Under-Secretary for Ireland) 1747-1774
Under-Secretaries for Ireland (1835 onwards)
- Thomas Drummond 1835-1840[1]
Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom 1853-1868Thomas Henry Burke 1869-1882Robert George Crookshank Hamilton 1882-1886- Sir Redvers Henry Buller 1886-1887
- Sir Joseph West Ridgeway 1887-1893
- Sir David Harrel 1893-1902
- Sir Antony MacDonnell 1902-1908
- Sir James Brown Dougherty 1908-1914
- Sir Matthew Nathan 1914-1916
- Sir Robert Chalmers 1916
- Sir William Byrne 1916-1918
- James Macmahon 1918-1922
- Sir John Anderson 1920-1922
References
- ^ Famous scots, accessed 9 January 2009
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