title: Governor of Cork
text: # Governor of Cork
  
  The Governor of Cork was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Cork in Ireland. The office became a sinecure and in 1833 was abolished from the next vacancy.
  
  ## List of governors of Cork
  
  ### Governors
  
  * 1644: Major Muschamp
  * 1651: Colonel Robert Phaire (for Parliament) (page 175)
  * 1672: Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon
  * 1678: Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
  * 1689: Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare and M. Boileau (for King James II)
  * 1690: Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone and Roger McElligott (for King James II)
  * 1690: Colonel Hales and Colonel Hastings (for King William)
  * 1691: Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington
  * 1691: Sir Richard Cox
  * 1692: Sir Toby Purcell
  * 1698: Sir James Jeffreys
  * 1698–1700: Position abolished
  * 1701: Sir James Jeffreys
  * 1722: James Jeffreys (son of above)
  * 1746–?1750: Gervais Parker
  * 1752–1764: Lieut-General Sir James St Clair
  * 1764–1768: Lord Robert Bertie
  * 1768–1778: Col. John Wynne
  * 1778–1782: Nicholas Lysaght
  * 1782–1789: Thomas Pigott
  * 1789–1792: Mountifort Longfield
  * 1792–1811: The Earl of Massereene
  * 1811–1820: The Lord Beresford
  * 1820–1828: Sir Brent Spencer
  * 1829–1835: Sir William Inglis
  
  ### Lieutenant-governors
  
  * c.1760–1765?: James Molesworth
  * 1764–1768: John Wynne
  * 1768–1769: James St John Jeffereyes
  * 1772–1778: William Hull a.k.a. William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale
  * 1778–: John Leland
  * 1796–1808: John Leland
  * 1808–1815: Col. William Dickson
  * 1815–1834: James Stirling
  