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James Anthony Cropper, lord-lieutenant of Cumbria.

New Year honours list: Knights Bachelor, Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order and Royal Victorian Medal 2010

Charles Geoffrey Nicholas Kay-Shuttleworth, baron, chm of the council, Duchy of Lancaster and lord-lieutenant of Lancashire.

New Year honours list: Knights Bachelor, Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order and Royal Victorian Medal 2010

By summer 1741 there were rumours that Handel intended to return to Germany, but an invitation from the lord-lieutenant of Ireland to give a series of concerts in Dublin seems to have fired his enthusiasm.

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Croppies Get Up under the nose of the lord-lieutenant himself; but he tould me that he had not time to attend to me, and when I persisted, bade me go to the Divil and shake myself.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

The present peer has property in about a dozen counties, and is lord-lieutenant of

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

In pursuance of this advice, the following year a parliament was summoned to meet at Dublin, by order of Leonard Grey, at that time lord-lieutenant.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

For six years he held the office of chief secretary to the lord-lieutenant, at a time when the government was conducted upon what might be called "anti-conciliation principles."

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various

The gentry in the neighbourhood had rallied for its defence; and Lord Scarborough, the lord-lieutenant of the county, had entered the town with a body of men.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

In communicating, officially with any district whatsoever, in any one of the three kingdoms, the proper channel through which the directions travel is the lord-lieutenant of the particular county in which the district lies.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

The vice-reign of the duke of Abercorn, the last lord-lieutenant, will long be remembered as a period of exceptional splendor in the annals of Dublin.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various