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.
Privy Council of Ireland
The Privy Council of Ireland was an institution of the Kingdom of Ireland until 31 December 1800 and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1922...
, was a government office in the Kingdom of Ireland
Kingdom of Ireland
The Kingdom of Ireland refers to the country of Ireland in the period between the proclamation of Henry VIII as King of Ireland by the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 and the Act of Union in 1800. It replaced the Lordship of Ireland, which had been created in 1171...
. It was abolished in 1801 when Ireland became part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
under the Acts of Union 1800.
List of Secretaries
- by 1576: John Chalenor
- 1581: Sir Geoffrey FentonGeoffrey FentonSir Geoffrey Fenton was an English writer, Privy Councillor, and Principal Secretary of State in Ireland.-Early literary years:...
and another - 1603: Sir Richard Cooke
- 1612: Sir Dudley Norton
- 1616: Francis Annesley, 1st Baron MountnorrisFrancis Annesley, 1st Viscount ValentiaFrancis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia PC was an English statesman during the colonisation of Ireland in the seventeenth century. He was a Member of Parliament for both the English and Irish houses, and was elevated to the Irish peerage as Baron Mountnorris, and later Viscount Valentia.-Rise to...
- 1634: Philip MainwaringPhilip MainwaringSir Philip Mainwaring was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1661.Mainwaring was the son of Randall Mainwaring, of Peover, Cheshire. He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 14 March 1609, and matriculated at Cambridge from Brasenose College, Oxford on 29...
- 1661: Sir Paul Davys (granted the office in reversion after Mainwaring)
- 1665: George Lane, 1st Viscount LanesboroughGeorge Lane, 1st Viscount LanesboroughGeorge Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough was an Irish politician.He was the son of Sir Richard Lane, 1st Baronet, of Tulsk, by his wife Mabel Fitzgerald....
(in reversion after Davys) - 1678: Sir John DavysJohn Davys (died 1689)Sir John Davys was an Irish politician.He was son of Sir Paul Davys by his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet, and younger brother of Sir William Davys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland...
(in reversion after Lane) - 1690: Sir Robert SouthwellRobert Southwell (diplomat)Sir Robert Southwell was an English diplomat. He was Secretary of State for Ireland and President of the Royal Society from 1690.-Background and education:...
- 1702: Edward SouthwellEdward Southwell (1671–1730)Edward Southwell was an Irish politician, the son of Sir Robert Southwell.He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Kinsale from 1692 to 1699, for Dublin University from 1703 to 1713 and then again for Kinsale from 1713 to his death.In 1702 Southwell succeeded his father as Principal Secretary of...
- 1730: Edward SouthwellEdward Southwell (1705–1755)Edward Southwell of King's Weston, Gloucestershire was an Irish politician.He was the son of Edward Southwell and grandson of Sir Robert Southwell....
- 1755: Thomas CarterThomas Carter (1690–1763)Thomas Carter was a politician, a Member of Parliament, Master of the Rolls, Privy Councillor and Secretary of State for Ireland. He was "an able and intriguing man" - Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.-Political career:...
- 1763: Philip TisdallPhilip TisdallPhilip Tisdall SL was an Irish lawyer and politician.He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dublin University from 1739 to 1776 and then for the city of Armagh from 1776 to his death...
- 1766: John Hely-Hutchinson (in reversion, succeeded 1777)
- 1795: Edmund Henry Pery, 2nd Baron Glentworth
- 1796: Thomas PelhamThomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of ChichesterThomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC , FRS , styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician...
- 1797: Robert Stewart, Viscount CastlereaghRobert Stewart, Viscount CastlereaghRobert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC, PC , usually known as Lord CastlereaghThe name Castlereagh derives from the baronies of Castlereagh and Ards, in which the manors of Newtownards and Comber were located...
- 1801: Charles AbbotCharles Abbot, 1st Baron ColchesterCharles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester PC, FRS was a British barrister and statesman. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1802 and 1817.-Background and education:...
See also
- Privy Council of IrelandPrivy Council of IrelandThe Privy Council of Ireland was an institution of the Kingdom of Ireland until 31 December 1800 and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801-1922...
- Chief Secretary for IrelandChief Secretary for IrelandThe Chief Secretary for Ireland was a key political office in the British administration in Ireland. Nominally subordinate to the Lord Lieutenant, from the late 18th century until the end of British rule he was effectively the government minister with responsibility for governing Ireland; usually...
- Secretary of State (United Kingdom)Secretary of State (United Kingdom)In the United Kingdom, a Secretary of State is a Cabinet Minister in charge of a Government Department ....