Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This was the most important position for determining British policy in Ireland after the Lord Lieutenant, and was frequently a cabinet level position in the 19th and early twentieth centuries. this is a stub. Chief Secretaries for Ireland, 1660-1922 Matthew Lock 1660 Sir Thomas Page 1662-1669 Sir Henry Ford 1669-1670 Sir Ellis Leighton 1670-1672 Sir Henry Ford 1672-1673 Sir William Harbord 1673-1676 Sir Cyril Wyche 1676-1682 Sir William Ellis 1682-1685 Sir Paul Rycaut 1686-1687 Thomas Sheridan 1687-1688 Patrick Tyrrell 1688-1689 John Davis 1690-1692 Sir Cyril Wyche 1692-1693 Sir Richard Aldworth 1695-1696 William Palmer 1696-1697 Matthew Prior 1697-1699 Humphrey May 1699-1701 Francis Gwyn 1701-1703 Edward Southwell 1703-1707 George Dodington 1707-1708 Joseph Addison 1708-1710 Edward Southwell 1710-1713 Sir John Stanley 1713-1714 Joseph Addison 1714-1715 Martin Bladen and Charles Delafaye 1715-1717 Edward Webster 1717-1720 Horatio Walpole 1720-1721 Edward Hopkins 1721-1724 Thomas Clutterbuck 1724-1730 Walter Cary 1730-1737 Sir Edward Walpole 1737-1739 Thomas Townshend 1739 Henry Bilson Legge 1739-1741 William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon 1741-1745 Richard Lidell 1745-1746 Sewallis Shirley 1746 Edward Weston 1746-1750 Lord George Sackville 1750-1755 Henry Seymour Conway 1755-1757 Richard Rigby 1757-1761 William Gerard Hamilton 1761-1764 Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda 1764-1765 Francis Seymour Conway, Viscount Conway 1765-1766 Augustus John Hervey 1766-1767 Theophilus Jones 1767 Lord Frederick Campbell 1767-1768 Sir George Macartney 1769-1772 Sir John Blaquiere 1772-1776 Sir Richard Heron 1776-1780 William Eden 1780-1782 Richard FitzPatrick 1782 William Wyndham Grenville 1782-1783 William Windham 1783 Thomas Pelham 1783-1784 Thomas Orde 1784-1787 Alleyne FitzHerbert 1787-1789 Robert Hobart 1789-1793 Sylvester Douglas 1793-1794 George Damer, Viscount Milton 1794-1795 Thomas Pelham 1795-1798 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh 1798-1801 Charles Abbot 1801-1802 William Wickham 1802-1804 Sir Evan Nepean 1804-1805 Nicholas Vansittart 1805 Charles Long 1805-1806 William Elliot 1806-1807 Sir Arthur Wellesley 1807-1809 Robert Dundas 1809 William Wellesley Pole 1809-1812 Robert Peel 1812-1818 Charles Grant 1818-1821 Henry Goulburn 1821-1827 William Lamb 1827-1828 Sir Francis Leveson Gower 1828-1830 Sir Henry Hardinge 1830 Edward Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, Lord Stanley 1830-1833 Sir John Cam Hobhouse 1833 Edward John Littleton 1833-1834 Sir Henry Hardinge 1834-1835 George Howard, Viscount Morpeth 1835-1841 Edward Granville Elliot, Lord Elliot 1841-1845 Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1845-1846 Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln 1846 Henry Labouchere 1846-1847 Sir William Meredyth Somerville 1847-1852 Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas 1852 Sir John Young 1853-1855 Edward Horsman 1855-1857 Henry Arthur Herbert 1857-1858 Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas 1858-1859 Edward Cardwell 1859-1861 Sir Robert Peel 1861-1865 Chichester Parkinson Fortescue 1865-1866 Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo 1866-1868 John Wilson-Patten 1868 Chichester Parkinson Fortescue 1868-1871 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1871-1874 Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 1874-1878 James Lowther 1878-1880 William Edward Forster 1880-1882 Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish 1882 George Otto Trevelyan 1882-1884 Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1884-1885 Sir William Hart Dyke 1885-1886 William Henry Smith 1886 John Morley 1886 Sir Michael Hicks-Beach 1886-1887 Arthur James Balfour 1887-1891 William Lawies Jackson 1891-1892 John Morley 1892-1895 Gerald William Balfour 1895-1900 George Wyndham 1900-1905 Walter Hume Long 1905 James Bryce 1905-1907 Augustine Birrell 1907-1916 Henry Edward Duke 1916-1918 Edward Shortt 1918-1919 James Ian Macpherson 1919-1920 Sir Hamar Greenwood 1920-1922 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.