Lord Chancellor of Ireland

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The office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

[edit] Lord Chancellors of Ireland, 1660-1922

• Sir Maurice Eustace 1660-1665
• Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh 1665-1686
• Sir Charles Porter 1686-1687
• Sir Alexander Fitton 1687-1690
• Richard Pyne 1690
• Sir Richard Ryves 1690
• Robert Rochfort 1690
• Sir Charles Porter 1690-1696
• in commission 1696-1697
• John Methuen 1697-1703
• Sir Richard Cox 1703-1707
• Richard Freeman 1707-1710
• in commission 1710
• Sir Constantine Phipps 1710-1714
• Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton 1714-1725
• Richard West 1725-1726
• Thomas Wyndham 1726-1727
• Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn 1727-1756
• John Bowes, 1st Baron Bowes 1757-1767
• James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford 1767-1789
• in commission 1789
• John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare 1789-1802
• John Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale 1802-1806
• George Ponsonby 1806-1807
• Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners 1807-1827
• Sir Anthony Hart 1827-1830
• William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket 1830-1834
• Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden 1835
• William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket 1835-1841
• John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews 1841
• Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden 1841-1846
• Maziere Brady 1846-1852
• Francis Blackburne 1852
• Maziere Brady 1853-1858
• Sir Joseph Napier 1858-1859
• Maziere Brady 1859-1866
• Francis Blackburne 1866-1867
• Abraham Brewster 1867-1868
• Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan 1868-1874
• in commission 1874-1875
• John Thomas Ball 1875-1880
• Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan 1880-1881
• Hugh Law 1881-1883
• Sir Edward Sullivan 1883-1885
• John Naish 1885
• Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne 1885-1886
• John Naish 1886
• Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne 1886-1892
• Samuel Walker 1892-1895
• Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne 1895-1905
• Sir Samuel Walker 1905-1911
• Redmond John Barry 1911-1913
• Sir Ignatius John O'Brien 1913-1918
• James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy 1918-1921
• Sir John Ross 1921-1922

Historical Irish upper houses
Pre-Union: Home rule: Post-independence:	Irish House of Lords (until 1800) Senate of Northern Ireland (1921-1972), Senate of Southern Ireland (1922) Free State Seanad (1922-1936), Modern Seanad (1937-present)