This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Queen's County. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831. Appointments to the position ended with the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922. Governors Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath: July–December 1661 William Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow: 1750–1779 John Dawson, 1st Earl of Portarlington: –1774 Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda: 1774–1799; again in 1805 William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough: 1783–1831 Charles Coote, 2nd Baron Castle Coote: –1823 Thomas Cosby: –1831 Lord Lieutenants The Viscount de Vesci 17 October 1831 – 19 October 1855 The Lord Castletown 17 November 1855 – 22 January 1883 The Viscount de Vesci 28 March 1883 – December 1900 Sir Algernon Coote, Bt 28 December 1900 – 22 October 1920 Sir Hutcheson Poë, Bt 11 November 1920 – 1922 References Queen's County