page_title: Nicholas Arnold (1507–1580)
section_title: Lord Deputy of Ireland
hierarchical_section_title: Nicholas Arnold (1507–1580) / Life / Lord Deputy of Ireland
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Andrew&#39;s Church, Churcham
context_page_description: Sir Nicholas Arnold (1507–1580) was an English courtier and politician, who held office as Lord Deputy of Ireland.
context_section_description: He was Lord Deputy of Ireland 1564-65. He had already seen service in Ireland as member of a commission of inquiry into the conduct of the previous Deputy, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, which dragged on for two years but ended inconclusively. As Lord Deputy he was regarded as a failure, being described as "quarrelsome, arbitrary and credulous", and within a year he was replaced by Sir Henry Sidney. The most serious charge against him was that he had done nothing to curb the  growing power of Shane O'Neill, Prince of Ulster, thus making inevitable the clash between O'Neill and the Crown which broke out after his departure. He unwisely quarrelled with the youthful, but increasingly powerful, Adam Loftus,  then  Archbishop of Armagh, and shortly to be Archbishop of Dublin; and the favour he showed towards Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare aroused resentment among the other members of the Anglo-Irish nobility.
  On his return a vengeful  Earl of Sussex brought articles of impeachment  against him, but these were ignored; in later years his interest in politics was mainly local. From 1572 he again served until his death as MP for Gloucestershire. He died at the end of 1580, and  was buried at Churcham.
caption: St. Andrew's Churcham
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