This is a list of people who have held the post of Lord Lieutenant of County Galway.
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 and was abolished in 1922, when Galway ceased to be part of the United Kingdom.
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Governors
William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty
Denis Daly: –1791
Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 1792–1797
Joseph Henry Blake, 1st Baron Wallscourt: 1798–1803
Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty: 1802–1831
John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort: 1812–1817
Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort: 1814–1831
Lord Lieutenants
Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde: 7 October 1831 – 10 April 1874
Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock: 28 May 1874 – June 1892
Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock: 13 June 1892 – 12 May 1917
Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin: 17 April 1918 – 1922