List of governors of the Bahamas
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This is a list of governors of the Bahamas . The first English settlement in the Bahamas was on Eleuthera . In 1670, the king granted the Bahamas to the lords proprietors of the Province of Carolina , but the islands were left to themselves. The local pirates proclaimed a ' Privateers' Republic ' with Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ) as chief magistrate in 1703. In 1717, the Bahamas became a British crown colony, and the pirates were driven out.
During the American War of Independence , the Bahamas were briefly occupied by both American and Spanish forces. In 1964, the Bahamas achieved self-governance, and, in 1973, full independence.
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List
Image | Governor | From | To |
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Governors of Eleuthera (1648–1657): | |||
William Sayle | 1648 | 1657 | |
Proprietary governors of the Bahama Islands (1670–1706): | |||
Hugh Wentworth | 1671 | December 1671 | |
John Wentworth | December 1671 | 1676 | |
Charles Chillingworth | 1676 | 1677 | |
Robert Clarke | 1677 | 1682 | |
Richard Lilburne | 1682 | 1684 | |
British rule temporarily disrupted due to joint Spanish and French raid on Charlestown | |||
Thomas Bridges | 1686 | 1690 | |
Cadwallader Jones | 1690 | 1694 | |
Nicholas Trott | 1694 | 1697 | |
Nicholas Webb | 1697 | 1699 | |
Read Elding
(acting) |
1699 | 1701 | |
Elias Haskett | 1701 | 1701 | |
Ellis Lightfoot | 1701 | 1703 | |
Edward Birch | 1704 | 1704 | |
Privateer's Republic (1706–1718) | |||
Royal governors of the Bahama Islands (1718–1776) | |||
Woodes Rogers | 26 July 1718 | 1721 | |
George Phenney | 1721 | 1728 | |
Woodes Rogers | August 1729 | 16 July 1732 | |
Richard Fitzwilliam
(acting) |
1734 | 1738 | |
John Tinker | 1741 | 1758 [1] | |
John Gambier
(acting) |
1758 | 1760 | |
William Shirley | 1760 [2] | 1775 | |
Montfort Browne | 1775 | 3 March 1776 | |
Commandant of the Bahama Islands (during American occupation, 1776) | |||
Samuel Nicholas | 3 March 1776 | 17 March 1776 | |
Royal governors of the Bahama Islands (1776–1782) | |||
John Gambier
(acting) |
1776 | 1778 | |
John Robert Maxwell | 1780 | 8 May 1782 | |
Governors of Louisiana (during Spanish occupation) | |||
Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid,
Count of Gálvez |
8 May 1782 | 19 April 1783 | |
Royal governors of the Bahama Islands (1783–1969) | |||
Andrew de Vau (acting) | 1783 | 1783 | |
John Robert Maxwell | 1783 | 1784 | |
James Edward Powell
(Lieutenant-governor) |
1784 | 1786 | |
John Brown
(acting) |
1786 | 1787 | |
The 4th Earl of Dunmore | 1787 | 1796 | |
Robert Hunt
(acting) |
1796 | 14 February 1797 | |
John Forbes
(Lieutenant-governor) |
14 February 1797 | June 1797 | |
Lieutenant-General William Dowdeswell | 20 November 1797 | 1801 | |
John Halkett | 1801 | 1804 | |
Charles Cameron | 8 May 1804 | 1820 | |
Lewis Grant | 1821 | 1829 | |
Sir James Carmichael Smyth, 1st Baronet | 1829 | 1833 | |
Blayney Townley Balfour | 1833 | 1835 | |
William MacBean George Colebrooke | 1835 | 1837 | |
Sir Francis Cockburn | 1837 | 1844 | |
George Mathew | 1844 | 1849 | |
John Gregory | 1849 | 1854 | |
Sir Alexander Bannerman | 1854 | 1857 | |
Charles John Bayley | 1857 | 1864 | |
Rawson William Rawson | 1864 | 1869 | |
Sir James Walker | 1869 | 1871 | |
Sir George Cumine Strahan
KCMG |
1871 | 1873 | |
Sir John Pope Hennessy
KCMG |
1873 | 1874 | |
Sir William Robinson | 1874 | 1880 | |
Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan
CMG |
1880 | 1881 | |
Sir Charles Cameron Lees
KCMG |
1882 | January 1884 | |
Sir Henry Arthur Blake
GCMG , DL |
4 January 1884 | 1887 | |
Sir Ambrose Shea
KCMG |
1887 | 1895 | |
Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith | 1895 | 1898 | |
Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter | 1898 | 1904 | |
Sir William Grey-Wilson | 29 November 1904 | 1912 | |
Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith | 29 October 1912 | 1914 | |
Sir William Lamond Allardyce
KCMG |
15 June 1914 | 1920 | |
Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux
KCMG , CB |
8 December 1920 | 1926 | |
Sir Charles William James Orr | 15 March 1927 | January 1932 | |
Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford | 10 January 1932 | 1937 | |
Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas | 1937 | 1940 | |
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) | 18 August 1940 | 16 March 1945 | |
Sir William Lindsay Murphy | 28 July 1945 | 1950 | |
Sir George Ritchie Sandford | 5 January 1950 | December 1950 | |
Sir Robert Arthur Ross Neville | 7 December 1950 | 1953 | |
The Earl of Ranfurly | 21 December 1953 | 1956 | |
Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur | 1 April 1957 | 1960 | |
Sir Robert Stapledon | 18 July 1960 | 1964 | |
Sir Ralph Grey
,
GCMG , GCVO , OBE , GCSt.J . P.C |
3 June 1964 | 1968 | |
Sir Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce
,
KCMG |
1 November 1968 | 1969 | |
Governors of the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands (1969–1973) | |||
Sir Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce
(The
Lord Thurlow
from 1971),
KCMG |
1969 | 1972 | |
Sir John Warburton Paul
GCMG , OBE , MC |
14 May 1972 | 10 July 1973 | |
On 10 July 1973 the Bahamas gained full independence from the United Kingdom and the viceroy became the Governor-General of the Bahamian Monarch . |
See also
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Colonial heads of the Bahamas
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1. Biography of John Gregory [3]
References
- ↑ More Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies by Vere Langford Oliver: "His Excellency John Tinker died 10 July 1758 aged 58. 18 years Governor and Commander-in-Chief over these Islands"
- ↑ Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 27 by Isaac Kimber and Edward Kimber. "William Shirley is appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands in the room of John Tinker deceased - 6 November 1758"
- ↑ Wettenhall, R. L. "Gregory, John (1795–1853)" . Australian Dictionary of Biography . Natl Centre of Biography, Australian Natl University . Retrieved 15 March 2020 .