Lord Lieutenant of Down

Governors

• Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire –1793
• Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry 1793–1821
• James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye: –1831
• Robert Ward: 1805–1831
• Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry: –1831

  Lord Lieutenants

• The 3rd Marquess of Downshire: 7 October 1831 – 12 April 1845
• The 4th Marquess of Londonderry: 17 May 1845 – 1864
• The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye: 13 April 1864 – 12 February 1902, later Earl of Dufferin and Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
• The 6th Marquess of Londonderry: 16 April 1902 – 8 February 1915
• The 7th Marquess of Londonderry: 8 September 1915 – 11 February 1949
• The 4th Earl of Kilmorey: 2 June 1949 – 1959
• Sir Roland Nugent, 1st Bt.: 10 March 1959 – 18 August 1962
• The 6th Earl of Clanwilliam: 25 September 1962 – 1979
• Colonel William Norman Brann O.B.E, E.R.D, D.L.: 2 October 1979 – 1990
• William Stephen Brownlow: 17 August 1990 – 1996
• Sir William Joseph Hall: 10 October 1996 – 1 August 2009
• David Lindsay: 25 August 2009 – Present