Authors and Contributors this page: Christopher Buyers
Page created 1 August 2003. Corrected and updated 13.02.2005
 

Chronological List of

Commanders in Chief, IRELAND

Ireland   
See also:
Introduction to Army Chiefs
Introduction to Field Marshals
Index of Royal Colonels
and in Ireland:
List of Field Marshals
 

     Note: all ranks and post-nominals are final for the person's career and not necessarily applicable to his tenure as Commander-in-Chief.

 

 
     
Commander in Chief:  
1720 F.M. The Rt Hon Richard (Boyle), 2nd Viscount Shannon, PC  
1728 Lt-Gen. Owen Wynne  
   
1766.01.14 Gen. The Rt Hon John (Leslie), 10th Earl of Rothes, KT, PC  
   
1774.07.13 Gen. The Rt Hon George Augustus (Elliot), 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, PC, KB  
1775.05.05 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir John Irwin, PC, KB  
1782 Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon John Burgoyne, PC  
1784 Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon Sir William Augustus Pitt, PC, KB  
1788 Lt-Gen. Sir Ralph (Gore), 6th Bt., 1st Earl of Ross [acting]  
1788 Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon Sir William Augustus Pitt, PC, KB  
1791 Gen. The Rt Hon George Warde, PC  
1793 Gen. The Rt Hon Robert (Cuninghame), 1st Baron Rossmore, PC  
1796.08.16 Gen. The Rt Hon Henry Lawes (Luttrell), 2nd Earl of Carhampton, PC  
1798.01.04 Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Ralph Abercromby of Tullibody, PC, KB  
1798.06.13 Gen. The Most Hon Charles (Cornwallis), 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC  
1801 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir William Medows, PC, KB  
1803 Gen. The Rt Hon Henry Edward Fox, PC  
1803 Gen. The Rt Hon William Shaw (Cathcart), 1st Earl Cathcart, KT, PC  
1806.08.05 Gen. The Rt Hon Charles (Stanhope), 3rd Earl of Harrington, PC, GCH  
1812.04.10 Gen. The Rt Hon John (Hope), 4th Earl of Hopetoun, PC, GCB  
1813 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir George Hewett, 1st Bt., PC, GCB  
1816.10 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir George Beckwith, PC, GCB  
1820 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir David Baird, 1st Bt. PC, GCB, KC  
1822 Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Samuel Auchmuty, PC, GCB  
1822.11 F.M. The Rt Hon Stapleton (Cotton), 1st Viscount Combermere, PC, GCB, GCH, KSI  
1825 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir George Murray, PC, GCB, GCH  
1828.07.15 F.M. The Rt Hon John (Byng), 7th Earl of Stratford, PC, GCB, GCH  
1831.08.16 Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon Richard Hussey (Vivian), 1st Baron Vivian, PC, GCB, GCH  
1836.08.26 F.M. The Rt Hon Sir Edward Blakeney, PC, GCB, GCH  
1855 F.M. The Rt Hon John (Colborne), 1st Baron Seton, PC, GCB, GCMG, GCH  
1860.04.02 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir George Brown, PC, GCB, KH  
1865.08.11 F.M. The Rt Hon Hugh Henry (Rose), 1st Baron Strathnairn, of Strathnairn and Jhansi, PC, GCB, GCSI  
1870.08.01 Gen. The Rt Hon William Rose (Mansfield), 1st Baron Sandhurst, PC, GCB, GCSI  
1875.08.01 F.M. The Rt Hon Sir John Michel, PC, GCB  
1880.10.01 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Thomas Montagu Steele, PC, GCB  
1885.10.01 F.M. H.H. Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar, KP, PC, GCB, GCVO, GCH  
1890.11.21 F.M. The Rt Hon Garnet Joseph (Wolseley), 1st Viscount Wolseley of Cairo, KP, PC, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD  
1895.10.15 F.M. The Rt Hon Frederick Sleigh (Roberts), 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, VC, KG, PC, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KJStJ, VD  
1900.01.10 F.M. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, KG, PC, KT, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, GCStJ, VD, TD, Royal Victorian Chain  
1904.05.11 F.M. The Rt Hon Francis Wallace (Grenfell), 1st Baron Grenfell, PC, GCB, GCMG  
1908.05.12 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, PC, GCB, GCVO  
1912.05.10 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget, PC, GCB, KCVO  
1915.04.18 Maj-Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Lovick Bransby Friend, PC, KBE, CB  
1916.05.17 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, PC, GCB, KCMG, CVO, DSO  
1917.02.12 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon, PC, KCB, KCVO, DSO  
1918.05.28 Lt-Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Frederick Charles Shaw, PC, KCB  
1920.04.21 Gen. The Rt Hon Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, 1st Bt. PC, GCMG, KCB  
     
Chief of Staff and Commander in Chief [since independence]:  
1922.07.06 Lt-Gen. Michael Collins  
1922 Lt-Gen. The Hon Richard James Mulcahy  
1923 Lt-Gen. The Hon Eoin O'Duffy  
1924 Lt-Gen. Paedar MacMahon  
1927  
1928 Lt-Gen. The Hon Seán MacEoin, DSM  
1929.06  
   
  Lt-Gen. Michael Brennan  
   
1980 Lt-Gen. Louis Hogan, DSM  
1984    
   
1995.02. Lt-Gen. Gerald McMahon  
1998.08.22 Lt-Gen. David Stapleton  
2000.09.25 Lt-Gen. Colm E. Mangan