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  Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The eldest son of Ralph St Leger, a gentleman of Kent, he was educated abroad and at the University of Cambridge.
In 1540, Anthony was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and tasked with the repression of disorder.
After the accession of Queen Mary he was again appointed Lord Deputy in October 1553, but a charge of keeping false accounts caused him to be recalled for the third time in 1556.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_St_Leger_(Lord_Deputy_of_Ireland)   (519 words)

  
 SIR JOHN PERROT - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOHN PERROT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
In spite of his Protestantism he received the castle and lordship of Carew in Pembrokeshire, and at the beginning of Elizabeths reign he was entrusted with the naval defence of South Wales.
1582, lef 1 vacant the office of lord deputy of Ireland, and Perrot wa~ appointed to it early in 1584.
The lord deputy was roundly abused by Elizabeth for undertaking a rash, unadvised journey, but Sorley Boy was reduced to submission in 1586.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PERROT_SIR_JOHN.htm   (714 words)

  
 Lord Cromwell
It was this employment that brought him to Ireland in May and June 1599 as "Colonel of Foot" at "Dundalk with four companies", and eventually led to his arrival in 1605 with his wife, family and goods to live as "Governor and Commander of all the country of Lecale".
Catherine Cromwell married Sir Lionel, Lord Tollemache of Helmingham, Suffolk, Godson to Queen Elizabeth and ancestor by Catherine to the Earls of Dysart.
With a "Warrant for Lord Cromwell's commission to be governor and commander as well of all the country of Lecale", granted on 26 September 1605, Lord Cromwell arrived in Ireland as the new Governor of Lecale.
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 Wikipedia: President of Ireland
The residence of the President of Ireland is the ninety-two room Áras an Uachtaráin, (pronounced 'Or-us an ook-tar-on', the gaelic for the President's house) in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Ireland in turn challenged the proclamation by the British parliament of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 as 'queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
As a result, almost every state with which Éire (as Ireland is formally described in Article 4 of Bunreacht na hÉireann) had diplomatic relations with between 1937 and 1949 concluded that the Irish head of state was the man proclaimed King of Ireland in December 1936, King George VI.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/pr/president_of_ireland.html   (1847 words)

  
 President of Ireland
The President of Ireland (Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of the Republic of Ireland.
The Constitution of Ireland provides for a parliamentary system of government, under which the role of the head of state is largely a ceremonial one.
The original text of the Constitution of Ireland, as adopted in 1937, in its controversial Articles 2 and 3, mentioned two geopolitical entities, a thirty-two county 'National Territory' (i.e., the island of Ireland) and a twenty-six county 'state' formerly known as the Irish Free State (Articles 2 and 3 have since been amended).
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/president_of_ireland.html   (2860 words)

  
 Ireland 1550-1599   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Thomas Radcliffe, the earl of Sussex, is reappointed lord deputy.
The earl of Sussex is sworn in as lord lieutenant.
Thomas Radcliffe, the earl of Sussex and lord lieutenant, is recalled to England.
www.honestitsnorthernireland.com /ireland_1550-1599.htm   (1674 words)

  
 SIR ANTHONY ST LEGER - LoveToKnow Article on SIR ANTHONY ST LEGER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
1496-1559), lord deputy of Ireland, eldest son of Ralph St Leger, a gentleman of Kent, was educated abroad and at Cambridge.
After the accession of Mary he was again appointed lord deputy in October 1553, but in consequence of a charge against him of keeping false accounts he was recalled for the third time in 1556.
Having received a pardon from James I. and extensive grants of land in Ireland, he was appointed president of Munster by Charles I. in 1627.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_LEGER_SIR_ANTHONY.htm   (654 words)

  
 The Spenser Letters: an Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Edmund Spenser departed London for Dublin in July or August of 1580, one of several new secretaries appointed to the service of Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton, the new Lord Deputy of Ireland.
In his first two years in the service of the Lord Deputy and Privy Council in Dublin, Spenser became acquainted with the policy issues that would absorb him throughout the rest of his active political career, and would eventually find their way into his most important poem, The Faerie Queene.
A discovery of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued and brought under the obedience of the crown of England until the beginning of His Majesty's happy reign (1612), ed.
www.english.cam.ac.uk /ceres/haphazard/letters/introduction.html   (3457 words)

  
 Catastrophic Dimensions:The Rupture of English and Irish Identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1615
For almost four centuries, the royal administration in Ireland had distinguished between the Gaelic Irish populations in the hinterlands of Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Ulster, and the English population in the Pale, that relatively urbanized settlement centered on Dublin, and in the outlying towns and earldoms of Leinster and Munster.
Lord Offaly intended, through his resistance, to emphasize to Henry VIII the importance of the Kildare line for the stable governance of Ireland, but the political context of the period transformed resistance couched in loyalty into outright rebellion in the eyes of the king.
William Brabazon, Lord Justice of Ireland, suppressed the rebellions and established forts at Daingean, in Offaly, and at Ballyadams, in Leix.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH41/Cunnane41.html   (9116 words)

  
 President of Ireland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The President of Ireland ((The Celtic language of Ireland) Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the (The chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government) head of state of the (Click link for more info and facts about Republic of Ireland) Republic of Ireland.
Ireland in turn challenged the proclamation by the British parliament of (Click link for more info and facts about Queen Elizabeth II) Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 as 'queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
However in 1936 George VI was declared "King of Ireland" and, under the (Click link for more info and facts about External Relations Act) External Relations Act of the same year, it was this king who represented the state in its foreign affairs.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/president_of_ireland.htm   (4011 words)

  
 The Sidneys of Penshurst Place
During the realm of Elizabeth I Henry was appointed Lord President of Wales and later vice-treasurer of Ireland.
Although restored as Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1575 his taxation policies were not popular and he was recalled in 1578.
She was the daughter of Walter Devereaux, Earl of Essex (with whom Philip had served in Ireland) and was to marry the young Lord Rich later that year.
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He was Lord Deputy of Ireland dureing his life, and died at Dublin in Ano 1355, in the 29th yeare of [67] the reigne of Edward the third.
James, is the predecessor of the Lords of Deaces, in the county of Waterford; and afterwards, in progress of time, Maurice Fitz Gerald was created Lord Viscount Deaces, having a grant of that title to himself and the heires males lawfully begotten of his owne body for ever; but he died without bodily issue male.
This Thomas was marryed to Giles, the daughter of Cormack McCarty, Lord of Muskerry, and died in Ano Dni.
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 The Flight Of The Earls.Net - Chichester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The lord deputy hoped to lure the indigenous Ulster population away from their fidelity to their traditional lords by an imaginative policy of inducement.
Strategic considerations, reflecting his military background, were uppermost in the lord deputy's mind as he sought to establish a vigilant presence in areas from which rebellion had particularly threatened the pale during the sixteenth century.
Chichester's tenure of office as lord deputy was also marked by a major judicial and administrative development in Ireland, with the successful regularization of a nationwide system of assize circuits for the first time.
www.theflightoftheearls.net /chichester4.htm   (3325 words)

  
 FITZWILLIAM, SIR WILLIAM. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Although a Protestant, he was loyal to Queen Mary I, and she appointed him keeper of the great seal in Ireland (1555).
Under Elizabeth I he was vice treasurer (1550–73) and several times lord justice of Ireland in the absence of the 3d earl of Sussex.
His terms as lord deputy (1572–75, 1588–94) were marked by insufficient funds, his own lack of military skills, ineffective communication between him and the English court, and vague charges of maladministration.
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/fi/FitzwilW.html   (119 words)

  
 1599e
Hereupon he was to the publike rejoycing of all men made Lord Deputy of Ireland, with most ample power to prosecute or compound the warre, and (which he had obtained by importunity) to remit and pardon crimes of high treason, even to Tir-Oen himselfe.
A Proclamation was sent beforehand into Ireland, wherein is declared that the Irish Rebels had so long abused the Queenes Clemency and patience, that now shee was constrained to exercise her power to bridle them.
Mean while the supply which the Lord Deputy required was leavied in England and sent; but within a few dayes he gave advertisement by other letters that this yeere hee could doe no more but goe unto the confines of Ulster with 1300 foot and 300 horse.
www.philological.bham.ac.uk /camden/1599e.html   (2916 words)

  
 Leonard GREY (Lord Deputy of Ireland)
In 1536 Grey was appointed lord deputy of Ireland in succession to Sir William Skeffington; he was active in marching against the rebels and he presided over the important.
While his lordship remained in town, O'Flaherty, O'Madden and Mac Yeoris, (or Bermingham), came in, and made their submissions; but when the King received an account of what had taken place, he wrote to the lord deputy, that "their oaths, submissions and indentures were not worth a farthing, since they did not give hostages".
About the same time, Finglas, chief baron of the Exchequer, recommended that half the fee-farm of Galway should be paid to the lord deputy for the time being, and that the other half should be applied for repairing the walls, and providing for its security.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/LeonardGrey.htm   (420 words)

  
 Sir John Perrot
In 1584 the queen appointed Perrot Lord Deputy of Ireland.
errot's time in Ireland as Lord Deputy, like that of those who had gone before and were to succeed him, was not an easy one.
His fortunes revived when Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558, and he was one of the four bearers who carried her canopy of state at her coronation.
www.castlewales.com /perrot.html   (601 words)

  
 James Butler, Marquis of Ormond, 1610-1688
His family had been entrusted with the government of Ireland as Lord Deputy to the English monarch since the early 16th century, but their continuing Catholic faith was viewed with disfavour.
Ormond led the King's forces against the Confederates, defeating his kinsman Lord Mountgarret at the battle of Kilrush in April 1642 and raising the siege of Drogheda.
He was welcomed by Lord Inchiquin, the Protestant chieftain of the O'Briens, who had been fighting on the side of Parliament but who had recently declared for the King.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/ormond.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Articles - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Following the assassination of Buckingham, in 1628, Wentworth was finally made Lord President of the Council of the North, the duties of which were to administer the supreme Law Court of northern England.
In January 1632, he was made Lord Deputy of Ireland, largely because of his reputation for harshness.
You have an army in Ireland you may employ here to reduce this kingdom...." He tried to force the citizens of London to lend money, and supported a project for debasing the coinage and seizing bullion in the Tower of London, the property of foreign merchants.
www.lastring.com /articles/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford?mySession=5956f89f255055a75dfa672013d8f623   (2861 words)

  
 BURGH [BOURKE, BURKE] - Online Information article about BURGH [BOURKE, BURKE]
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Bourke of Brittas (1618), both forfeited in 1691, were bestowed on branches of the family which has also still representatives in the baronetage and landed gentry of Ireland.
BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
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 Captayne Charles Mountague, ~1592
The Chronicle of Ireland, 1584-1608, is an early `official military diary' maintained for the Earl of Pembroke.
Uppon the Lord Liftenants returne greate falte was found with his attemptinge of this jorney, helde unnecessary, and a comsumption of the Quenes treasure...
One of the results of this war in Northern Ireland was the Plantation of Ulster.
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 Irish FAQ: History
1172 Pope decrees that Henry II of England is feudal lord of Ireland.
1689-90 Deposed James II flees to Ireland; defeated at the Battle of the Boyne by William of Orange and flees to France.
Britain declares that Northern Ireland will not be ceded to the Republic without the consent of the Northern Ireland parliament.
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 Terrell Tirrell Tyrell Tyrrell coat of arms
The arms of Sir John Tyrell, Mayor of Dublin, knighted at Christ's Church, Dublin, by Sir George Cary, Lord Deputy of Ireland, St. James' Day, 1603, son of Richard Tyrell, Mayor of Dublin in 1541, son of Richard Tyrell Mayor of Dublin l530, son of Sir Walter Tyrell thrice Mayor of Dublin.
Very shortly after the invasion of 1170 the Anglo-Norman family of Terrell or Tirrell, which had gone from France to England with William the Conqueror, came to Ireland, obtaining a grant of the greater part of the barony of Fertullagh in Westmeath as well as the lordship of Castleknock in county Dublin.
The battle of Tyrrell's Pass is described by MacGeoghegan, and mentioned by Leland and other historians; it was fought in the summer of 1597, at a place afterwards called "Tyrrell's Pass," now the name of a town in the barony of Fartullagh, in the county Westmeath.
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 The Sidneys of Penshurst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
She was grand-daughter to Henry VIII and had been named by Edward VI (under pressure from John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland - Henry Sidney's father-in law) as his successor.
Henry was appointed Lord President of Wales and later vice-treasurer of Ireland.
though restored as Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1575 his taxation policies were not popular and he was recalled in 1578.
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 Sir Philip Sidney
His father, Sir Henry Sidney, was three times lord deputy of Ireland, and in 1560 became lord president of Wales.
A deputy was appointed, and Philip enjoyed the revenue of the benefice for the rest of his life.
Penelope Devereux was married against her will to Robert, Lord Rich, in 1581, probably very soon after the letter from Penelope's guardian, the earl of Huntingdon, desiring the queen's consent.
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 Prestons of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
He was Lord of Preston in Lancashire and filled the office of Lord High Chancellor of Ireland.
Sir Robert Preston b.xxxx d.4-5-1503 was appointed deputy to Sir John Dynham, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Richard Duke of York, youngest son of Edward IV; and being constituted lord-deputy of Ireland, May 5, 1478.
In 1504 his lordship attended the Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy, to the famous battle of Knocktough in the province of Connaught, where with Lord Killeen, he led the wings of the bowmen; and in 1525 he was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland.
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 Worcester, John Tiptoft, earl of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
He served as treasurer of the exchequer (1452–55) and lord deputy of Ireland (1456–57).
He again became (1467) lord deputy of Ireland and had the earl of Desmond executed—and, it is claimed, Desmond’s two sons as well.
He was appointed constable again in Mar., 1470, but when Warwick restored Henry VI to the throne in October, Worcester fled.
www.bartleby.com /65/wo/WorcesJT.html   (267 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Roger B. Manning on A Viceroy's Vindication? Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir of Service in Ireland, 1556-1578   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
As president of the Council in the Marches and Principality of Wales from 1559 and three times lord deputy of Ireland before his death in 1586, Sir Henry Sidney was at the forefront of the expansion of English dominion in the British Isles.
Sidney had been quite successful in his long career as president of the Council of Wales, but his tenure as lord deputy of Ireland (he held the two offices concurrently) was distinctly less successful, although he discharged his duties competently and conscientiously.
Yet, unlike so many other English officials and planters in late-sixteenth-century Ireland, he did not attempt to explain the absence of a civil society in Ireland in terms of cultural inferiority, and he did not resort to comparing the Irish to the Scythians.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=144401082971478   (1275 words)

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