Lord Chancellor of Ireland
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The office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland was the highest judicial office in Ireland from earliest times until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.
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 John O'Brien 1913-1918
- James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy 1918-1921
- Sir John Ross 1921-1922