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[[File:George Carew, Earl of Totnes from NPG cropped.jpg|thumb|[[George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes]], the third Master-General of the Ordnance (1588).]]
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[[File:Ordnance Survey mark.jpg|thumb|"BO" (Board of Ordnance) mark on a building]]
The '''Board of Ordnance''' in the [[Kingdom of Ireland]] (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British [[Board of Ordnance]]: supplying arms and munitions, overseeing the [[Royal Irish Artillery]] and the Irish Engineers, and maintaining the fortifications in the island.
Following the [[Acts of Union 1800]], the Board was abolished and the duties taken over by the United Kingdom Board of Ordnance. The various officials of the Board were compensated with pensions for their loss of salary and emoluments.
==Officials of the Board of Ordnance==
''lists are incomplete before 1760''
===Master-General of the Ordnance===
{{anchor|Master-General}}<!-- [[Master-General in the Ordnance of Ireland]] and [[Master-General of the Ordnance of Ireland]] redirect here -->
Salary in 1800: £1,500<ref>Beatson (1806) [https://books.google.com/books?id=SQkyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA345 page 345]</ref>
* In 1539: Sir John Travers
* 1559–1587: [[Edward Maria Wingfield]]
* 1588: [[George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes|Sir George Carew]]<ref>''Dictionary of National Biography''</ref>
* 1592: Sir [[George Bourchier (Elizabethan soldier)|George Bourchier]]<ref>Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, [http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Bath1536.htm Bath, Earl of (E, 1536 – 1654)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518060441/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Bath1536.htm |date=18 May 2012 }} in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Retrieved 7 April 2012.</ref>
* 1605: [[Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison]]<ref>Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120611011318/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Grandison1621.htm Grandison, Viscount (I, 1621)] in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Retrieved 7 April 2012.</ref>
* 1614: ...
* 1617: [[Toby Caulfeild, 1st Baron Caulfeild]]
* 1627: William Caulfeild, 2nd Baron Caulfeild
* 1634: [[John Borlase (Lord Justice of Ireland)|Sir John Borlase]]<ref>Terry Clavin, "Borlase, Sir John (c.1576–1648)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2909, retrieved 9 April 2012]</ref> (jointly with Sir Thomas Lucas)
* 1648: [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery|Roger Boyle, 1st Baron Broghill]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=25327 |title=House of Commons Journal Volume 5: 17 March 1648 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1802 |work=Journal of the House of Commons: volume 5: 1646–1648 |accessdate=9 April 2012 }}</ref>
* ...
* 1660: [[Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander]]<ref name=cracroftMA>Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, [http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index2261.htm Mount Alexander, Earl of (I, 1661–1757)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831105359/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index2261.htm |date=31 August 2010 }} in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Retrieved 7 April 2012.</ref>
* 1663: [[Robert Byron (Royalist)|Sir Robert Byron]]<ref>M.S. Carte Calendar Volume 37 (August – October 1663), [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/projects/carte/carte37.html]. Retrieved 9 April 2012.</ref>
* 1674: [[Thomas Chicheley|Sir Thomas Chicheley]] (also [[Master-General of the Ordnance]] in England)<ref>Francis Duncan, ''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery'', p. 160, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JgEkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA160]. Retrieved 9 April 2012.</ref>
* 1679: [[Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford]]<ref>M. W. Helms and Basil Duke Henning, [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/aungier-francis-1632-1700 AUNGIER, Francis, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford (c.1632–1700), of East Clandon, Surr.] in ''[[The History of Parliament]]: the House of Commons 1660–1690'', 1983. Retrieved 7 April 2012.</ref>
* 1684: [[William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy]]<ref>Piers Wauchope, "Stewart, William, first Viscount Mountjoy (c.1650–1692)", ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26519, retrieved 7 April 2012]</ref>
* 1692: [[William Wolseley (brigadier-general)|William Wolseley]]<ref>Charles Dalton, "Wolseley, William (c.1640–1697)", rev. Harman Murtagh, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29852, retrieved 7 April 2012]</ref>
* 1698: [[Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander]]<ref name=cracroftMA/>
* 1705: [[Richard Ingoldsby (died 1712)|Richard Ingoldsby]]<ref>[[Henry Manners Chichester|H. M. Chichester]], "Ingoldsby, Richard (1664/5–1712)", rev. Kenneth Ferguson, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14412, retrieved 7 April 2012]</ref>
* 1712: [[Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran]]
* 1714: [[William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy]]<ref>John Lodge and [[Mervyn Archdall (Irish antiquary)|Mervyn Archdall]], ''The Peerage of Ireland'', volume VI (Dublin 1789) [https://books.google.com/books?id=z4oUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA256 page 256]</ref>
* 1727: [[François de La Rochefoucauld, marquis de Montandre]]
* 1739: [[Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth]]<ref name=molesworth/>
* 1758: [[James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster]]
* 1766: [[Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon]]<ref>Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, [http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index415.htm Shannon, Earl of (I, 1756)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215070212/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index415.htm |date=15 February 2011 }} in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Retrieved 18 March 2012.</ref>
* 1770: [[Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda]]
* 1797: [[Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton]]<ref name=carhampton>David R. Fisher, [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/luttrell-henry-lawes-1737-1821 LUTTRELL, Henry Lawes, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (1737–1821), of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin and Painshill, Surr.] in ''[[The History of Parliament]]: The House of Commons 1790–1820'', 1986. Online edition. Retrieved 18 March 2012.</ref>
* 1800: [[Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Pakenham]]
Pakenham was granted compensation of £1,200 per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc774>''Journals of the House of Commons'', volume 59, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dhhDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA774 page 774]</ref>
===Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance===
Salary in 1800: £600<ref name=beatson346>Beatson (1806) [https://books.google.com/books?id=SQkyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA346 page 346]</ref>
* 1660: [[Albert Cunningham|Sir Albert Conyngham]]<ref>[''Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=vYsxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA278]</ref>
* 1687: John Giles<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=82590 ''Calendar of Treasury Books'', volume 8]</ref>
* 1689: William Mansel Barker (Jacobite)<ref>''Calendar of the Stuart papers belonging to His Majesty the King'', p. 42, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5sYKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42]</ref>
* 1692: [[Francis Cuffe (died 1694)|Francis Cuffe]]
* 1695: Chidley Coote<ref>John Lodge and Mervyn Archdall, ''The Peerage of Ireland'', [https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland02lodg volume II] (Dublin 1789), page 69</ref><ref name=ware/>
* 1698: [[Jermyn Wyche]]<ref>Eveline Cruickshanks & Stuart Handley, ''The House of Commons, 1690–1715'', p. 933</ref>
* 1702: Chidley Coote
* 1706: [[Thomas Burgh (1670–1730)|Thomas Burgh]]<ref>Rolf Loeber, "Burgh, Thomas (1670–1730)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63114, retrieved 7 April 2012]</ref>
* 1714: [[Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth|Richard Molesworth]]<ref name=molesworth>Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, [http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index448.htm Molesworth, Viscount (I, 1716)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822143129/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index448.htm |date=22 August 2010 }} in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Retrieved 7 April 2012.</ref>
* bef 1738: Edward Hill<ref name=miege38>Guy Miege, ''The Present State of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1738), p. 101, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BDs2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA101]</ref>
* ...
* 1759: [[Bernard Hale (British Army officer)|Bernard Hale]]
* 1789: [[Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton]]<ref name=carhampton/>
* 1797: [[Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Pakenham]]
* 1800: [[Marcus Beresford (British Army officer, born 1764)|Marcus Beresford]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15306|page=1228|date=1 November 1800}}</ref>
Beresford was granted compensation of £600 per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc774/>
===Surveyor-General of the Ordnance===
Salary in 1800: £450<ref name=beatson346/>
* in 1704: George Houghton<ref name=ware/>
* in 1738: Peter Virasell
* by 1760: Ralph Ward
* 1789: [[Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Pakenham]]<ref name=gazette1789>{{London Gazette|issue=13134|page=617|date=26 September 1789}}</ref>
* 1797: [[Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet]]<ref>[[George Edward Cokayne]], ''The Complete Baronetage'', [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524416 volume V] (Exeter, 1906), page 433</ref>
* 1799: [[Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald|Robert Uniacke]]
Uniacke was granted compensation of £1,206 13s. per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc775/>
===Clerk of the Ordnance===
Salary in 1800: £300<ref name=beatson346/>
* 1691–aft. 1705: Edward Payne<ref name=ware>[[James Ware (historian)|Sir James Ware]], ''The Antiquities and History of Ireland'' (Dublin, 1705) [https://books.google.com/books?id=gjrnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA187 page 187]</ref>
*...
* bef. 1722–aft. 1738: Hector Pain<ref name=miege38/>
* by 1760: Joseph Keene
* 1788: [[Isaac Corry]]<ref>Arthur Aspinall, [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/corry-isaac-1752-1813 CORRY, Isaac (1752–1813), of Derrymore House, co. Armagh.] in ''[[The History of Parliament]]: The House of Commons 1790–1820'', 1986. Online edition. Retrieved 18 March 2012.</ref>
* 1789:  [[Richard Magenis (died 1831)|Richard Magenis]]<ref name=gazette1789/>
* 1800: [[Ponsonby Tottenham]]<ref>J. M. Collinge, [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/tottenham-ponsonby-1746-1818 TOTTENHAM, Ponsonby (1746–1818), of Merrion Square, Dublin.] in ''[[The History of Parliament]]: The House of Commons 1790–1820'', 1986. Online edition. Retrieved 18 March 2012.</ref>
Tottenham was granted compensation of £487 2s. 6d. per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc776/>
===Principal Storekeeper===
Salary in 1800: £200<ref name=beatson346/>
* 1691: Hugh Rowley
* in 1738: John Favier<ref name=miege38/>
* 1748: Thomas Coote
* 1768: [[John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne|John Creighton]]<ref>Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, [http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index394.htm Erne, Earl (I, 1789)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516121129/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index394.htm |date=16 May 2012 }} in ''Cracroft's Peerage''. Retrieved 18 March 2012.</ref>
* 1775: [[Thomas Coghlan]]
* 1788: [[Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Pakenham]]
* 1789: [[Thomas Loftus (1750–1792)|Thomas Loftus]]<ref name=gazette1789/>
* 1792: [[Richard Archdall]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13409|page=259|date=24 April 1792}}</ref>
* 1797: Charles Handfield
* 1798: Henry Alexander
* 1799: [[John Hobson (Irish politician)|John Hobson]]
Hobson was granted compensation of £616 13s. 9d. per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc775>''Journals of the House of Commons'', volume 59, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dhhDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA775 page 775]</ref>
===Clerk of the Deliveries===
Salary in 1800: £200<ref name=beatson347>Beatson (1806) [https://books.google.com/books?id=SQkyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA347 page 347]</ref>
* by 1760: [[John Gustavus Handcock]]
* 1767: [[John Magill]]
* 1775: [[Robert Tighe (died 1799)|Robert Tighe]]
* 1789: Edward King
* 1789: Robert Wynne<ref name=gazette1789/>
Wynne was granted compensation of £400 per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc776>''Journals of the House of Commons'', volume 59, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dhhDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA776 page 776]</ref>
===Treasurer===
Salary in 1800: £200<ref name=beatson347/>
* by 1760: John Chaigneau
* 1779: Thomas Burgh<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=11994|page=4|date=10 July 1779}}</ref>
Burgh was granted compensation of £500 per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc776/>
===Secretary to the Master-General===
Salary in 1800: £182 10s.<ref name=beatson347/>
* by 1760: Peter Bere
* 1766: Robert Pratt
* 1770: Henry Meredyth
* 1789: John Armit<ref name=gazette1789/>
* 1800: Joseph Atkinson
Atkinson was granted compensation of £520 3s. 6d. per annum after the Union.<ref name=jhc776/>
==References==
* [[Robert Beatson]], ''A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland'', volume III (London, 1806)
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