Important political office in the British administration of Ireland (1566–1922)
Not to be confused with Secretary of State (Ireland).
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Chief Secretary for Ireland
Arms of the Kingdom of Ireland
Style
The Right Honourable as a member of the Privy Council
Residence
Chief Secretary's Lodge (from 1776)
Appointer
The Lord Lieutenant
Term length
At the pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant
Inaugural holder
Edward Waterhouse
Formation
20 January 1566
Final holder
Sir Hamar Greenwood
Abolished
19 October 1922
The Chief Secretary's office in Dublin Castle. The Chief Secretary's residence was the Chief Secretary's Lodge in the Phoenix Park, next to the Viceregal Lodge.
The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a key political office in the British administration in Ireland. Nominally subordinate to the Lord Lieutenant, and officially the "Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant",[1] from the early 19th century until the end of British rule he was effectively the government minister with responsibility for governing Ireland, roughly equivalent to the role of a Secretary of State, such as the similar role of Secretary of State for Scotland. Usually it was the Chief Secretary, rather than the Lord Lieutenant, who sat in the British Cabinet.[2] The Chief Secretary was ex officio President of the Local Government Board for Ireland from its creation in 1872.[3]
British rule over much of Ireland came to an end as the result of the Irish War of Independence, which culminated in the establishment of the Irish Free State. In consequence the office of Chief Secretary was abolished, as well as that of Lord Lieutenant. Executive responsibility within the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland was effectively transferred to the President of the Executive Council (i.e. the prime minister) and the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland respectively.
^The National Archives. "Irish administration". Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine Last retrieved 12 November 2015.
^Quinlan, Tom. "The Registered Papers of the Chief Secretary's Office". National Archives of Ireland. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
^"Local Government Board (Ireland) Act, 1872 sec.2". Irish Statute Book. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
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