List of colonial governors and administrators of Tobago

This page lists Governors of Tobago. Governors of Tobago have been referred to by the formal titles of "Governor" and "Lieutenant-Governor". For governors of the united Trinidad and Tobago after 1889 see List of Governors of Trinidad and Tobago.

Lieutenant Governors of British Tobago (1764–1781)

  • Alexander Brown (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 12 November 1764 – July 1766
  • William Hill – 2 December 1766 – 16 October 1767
  • Roderick Gwynne – 16 October 1767 – 1769
  • Robert William Stewart – 1769 – 1771
  • William Young (Lt. Governor of Tobago) of Auchenskeoch Castle (Scotland) – 1771 – 1777
  • Peter Campbell (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1777 – 1779
  • John Graham (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1779 – 1781
  • George Ferguson (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1781 – 2 June 1781

Governors of French Tobago (1781–1793)

Governors of British Tobago (1793–1899)

  • William Myers – April 1793
  • George Poyntz Ricketts – 1793 – 1795
  • Joseph Robley – 1795
  • William Lindsay – 1795 – 1796
  • James Campbell – 1796 – 1797
  • Stephen de Lancey – 1797 – 1799
  • Joseph Robley – 1799 – 1800
  • Richard Master – 1800
  • Joseph Robley – 1800 – 1801
  • Hugh Lyle Carmichael - 1801 – 7 November 1802
  • Jean Joseph Francois Leonard Damarzit de Laroche Sahuguet – 7 November 1802 – 1803
  • Louis Cesar Gabriel Berthier – 1803
  • Thomas Picton – 30 June 1803 – July 1803
  • William Johnstone – July 1803 – August 1803
  • Donald MacDonald – August 1803 – July 1804
  • John Halkett – July 1804 – 1807
  • Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet – 1807 – 1815
  • John Balfour – 1815 – 1816
  • John Campbell – 1816
  • Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson – November 1816
  • Sir Colin Campbell - February 1828 - April 1828 [1]
  • Nathaniel Blackwell – April 1828 – 1833 [2]
  • Alexander Gardner – 1833 – (Acting)
  • General Sir Lionel Smith – 1833
  • General Sir Henry Charles Darling – 1833 – 1845
  • Laurence Graeme – 1845 – 1851
  • David Robert Ross – 16 April 1851 – 26 June 1851
  • Henry Yates – 1851 – 1852 – (1st Time / Acting)
  • Dominick Daly September 1851 – 1852 [3]
  • Henry Yates – 1852 – February 1854 – (2nd Time / Acting)
  • Willoughby J. Shortland – February 1854 – 1856
  • James Kirk – 1856 – (Acting)
  • James Henry Keens – 1856 – 1857 – (Acting)
  • James Vickery Drysdale – June 1857 – April 1864
  • Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright – October 1864 – 1872 [4]
  • Herbert Taylor Ussher – 1872 – 1875
  • Robert William Harley – 1875 – 1877 [5]
  • Augustus Fredrick Gore – 1877 – 1880 [6]
  • Edward Laborde – 1880 – 1882
  • John Worrell Carrington – 1883 – 1884
  • Loraine Geddes Hay – 1885
  • Robert Baxter Llewellyn – 1885 – 1888
  • Loraine Geddes Hay – 1888 – 1892
  • Thomas Crossley Rayner – 1892
  • William Low – 1892 – 1893
  • Herbert H. Sealy – 1893 (acting)
  • William Low – 1893 – 1897
  • S. W. Snaggs – 1897 (acting)
  • Joseph Clanfergael O'Halloran – 1897 – 1899

See also

References

  1. ↑ "No. 18447". The London Gazette. 28 February 1828. p. 409.
  2. ↑ "No. 18462". The London Gazette. 18 April 1828. p. 749.
  3. ↑  "Daly, Dominick". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. ↑ "No. 22902". The London Gazette. 14 October 1864. p. 4851.
  5. ↑ "No. 24508". The London Gazette. 2 October 1877. p. 5455.
  6. ↑ "No. 24508". The London Gazette. 2 October 1877. p. 5455.
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