monarch predecessor successor death_date birth_place office birth_date term_start spouse birthname article_title term_end name restingplace occupation alma_mater
james ii james ii sir william domville sir audley mervyn sir john temple richard levinge 6 april 1699 carrigacunna castle , killavullen , ireland attorney-general commons for ireland speaker of the irish house of 1636 1686 may 1689 jane kearney richard nagle richard nagle
 1691 20 july 1689 sir richard nagle saint-germain , france politician , lawyer gray 's inn
richard nagle

sir richard nagle -lrb- 1636 -- 6 april 1699 -rrb- was an irish politician and lawyer .
he held the positions of attorney-general for ireland , speaker of the irish house of commons , lord justice of ireland and secretary of state and war for ireland under king james ii .
he fled to france in 1691 , joining james ii at saint germain , where he resumed his duties as nominal secretary of state and war .
he later served as commissioner of the household .
richard was born into an old english family at carrigacunna castle , in county cork .
this was his family 's seat .
his brother pierce was a future high sheriff of cork .
although richard was initially destined to join the clergy , he was educated in law at gray 's inn and was called to the bar in dublin .
`` active and skillful '' , he had a successful career as a lawyer .
the earl of tyrconnell brought richard to england with him in 1685 to meet james ii .
james created him attorney-general for ireland and knighted him in 1686 .
he also appointed him to the privy council of ireland .
as an mp for cork , nagle was elected speaker by the irish house of commons in 1689 .
this parliament is known to posterity as the `` patriot parliament '' .
it spurned the outcome of the glorious revolution , recognising king james 's divine right to the irish crown over william of orange 's parliamentary one .
william , made king of england during the revolution , was set on conquering ireland from james , and to achieve that end he launched the williamite war .
richard was diametrically opposed to the act of settlement 1662 -lrb- he was the author of `` a letter from coventry '' , an anti-settlement pamphlet -rrb- , which had punished royalists and catholics who had fought against parliament in the civil wars ; he unsuccessfully advocated its repeal in this session .
james 's forces were routed by william 's at the battle of the boyne , in 1690 ; king james retreated to dublin .
it was here he convened a council that advised him to flee to france .
nagle was one of its members .
they reasoned that if he did not leave `` he would run a great risk of being taken by the enemy '' .
james followed their advice .
nagle , accompanied by tyrconnell , visited him at his court-in-exile , saint germain , at the end of 1690 .
in nagle 's absence , his duties as secretary of state were executed by the baron nugent of riverston .
upon the death of tyrconnell , the lord lieutenant of ireland , nagle became one of the lords justice of ireland .
the others were francis plowden and baron fitton of gawsworth .
they administered what remained of jacobite ireland in the place of the lord lieutenant , though they did not assume command of the armed forces .
