Newfoundland Administrators


Governors
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
5 Aug 1583 - 9 Nov 1583
Governors of Cuper's Cove
John Guy
1610 - 1613
William Colston
1613 - 1614
John Mason
1615 - 1621
Governors of Bristol's Hope
Robert Hayman
1618 - 1628
Governors of Trepassey
Richard Whitebourne
1623 - 1620
Governors of South Falkland
Francis Tanfield
1623 - 1625
Governors of Avalon
Edward Wynn
Sep 1621 - 1625
Sir Arthur Ashton
1626 - 1627
George Calvert, Baron of Baltimore
1628 - Sep 1629
Cecil Calvert, Baron of Baltimore
Sep 1629 - 1634
William Hill
1634 - 1634
Governors
Sir David Kirke
1638 - 20 Jun 1640
John Downing, Sr.
20 Jun 1640 - 8 Apr 1651
John Littlebury
8 Apr 1651 - 27 May 1653
John Treworgie
27 May 1653 - May 1660
J. Rayner
1661 - 1663
Christopher Martin
1665
Robert Robinsen
1668
William Davis
1671
Commodores
Sir John Berry
1675
Edward Russell
1676
Sir William Poole
1677
Charles Talbot
1678
Wright
1679
Sir Robert Robinson
1680
James Story
1681
Daniel Jones
1682
Charles Talbot
1683
Francis Wheeler
1684
Thomas Perry
1689
Charles Hawkins
1691
Thomas Crawley
1692
William Holman
1694
Samuel Whetstone
1696
Miners
1696 - 30 Nov 1696
Jacques-Francois de Monbeton Brouillan de St.Andre
30 Nov 1696 - Mar 1697
Sir John Norris
Mar 1697 - 1698
Handyside
1697 - 1698
William Lilburn
1698 - 1699
Andrew Leake
1699
Andrews
1699 - 1700
Sir Stafford Fairborne
1700
John Graydon
1701
John Leake
1702
Timothy Bridge
1703 - 1705
John Underdown
1706 - 1707
Peter Chamberlain
1708
Thomas Mitchell
1708
Joseph Taylour
8 Jan 1709 - 6 Oct 1709
John Aldred
1710
Josias Crowe
1711
Sir Nicholas Trevanion
1712
Robert Leake
1713
Charles Fotherby
1714
William Kempthorne
1715
John Hagar
1716
William Passenger
1717
Thomas Scott
1718
Chaloner Ogle
1719
Francis Percy
1720
James Stuart
1721
Edward Bowler
1722 - 1727
Vere Beauclerk
1728
Lieutenant Governors
Michael Richards
1700 - 1702
Thomas Lloyd
1702 - 1704
John Moody
1704 - 1705
Thomas Lloyd
1705 - 1708
John Collins
1709 - 1712
John Moody
1712 - 1719
Samuel Gledhill
1719 - 9 Jul 1719
Richard Philipps
9 Jul 1719 - 1735
Commodore Governors
Henry Osborne
1729 - 1730
George Clinton
1731 - 1732
Edward Falkingham
1732
Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry
1733 - 1734
Fitzroy Henry Lee
1735 - 1737
Philip Vanbrugh
1738
Henry Medley
1739 - 1740
George Grahame
1740
Thomas Smith
1741
John Byng
1742
Thomas Smith
1743
Charles Hardy
1744
Richard Edwards
1745
James Douglas
1746
Charles Watson
Mar 1748 - 1749
George Brydges Rodney
1749 - 1750
Francis William Drake
1750 - 1752
Hugh Bonfoy
1753 - 1754
Richard Dorrill
1755 - 1756
Richard Edwards
1757 - 1760
James Webb
1761 - 14 May 1761
Thomas Graves
1761 - 27 Jun 1762
Thomas Graves
18 Sep 1762 - 1763
Sir Hugh Palliser
1764 - 1768
John Byron
1769 - 1772
Molyneux Shuldham, Baron Shuldham
1772 - 1775
Robert Duff
1775 - 7 May 1776
John Montague
7 May 1776 - 1778
Richard Edwards
1779 - 1782
John Campbell
1782 - 1786
John Elliott
1786 - 1788
Mark Milbanke
1789 - 1791
Sir Richard King
1792 - 1793
Sir James Wallace
1794 - 1797
William Waldegrave
1797 - 1799
Charles Morice Pole
1800 - 1801
James Gambier
1802 - 1804
Sir Erasmus Gower
1804 - 26 Jul 1807
John Holloway
26 Jul 1807 - 1810
Sir John Thomas Duckworth
1810 - 1812
Sir Richard Goodwin Keats
1813 - 1816
Francis Pickmore
Sep 1816 - 24 Feb 1818
John Bowker
24 Feb 1818 - 20 Jul 1818
Governors
Charles Hamilton
20 Jul 1818 - 5 Jul 1824
Sir Thomas John Cochrane
1825 - 1834
Henry Prescott
1834 - 16 Sep 1841
Sir John Harvey
16 Sep 1841 - 1846
John Law
1846 - 1847
John Gaspard Le Marchant
Apr 1847 - 28 Jul 1852
Ker Baillie Hamilton
Dec 1852 - Mar 1855
Charles Henry Darling
1855 - May 1857
Sir Alexander Bannerman
1857 - 1863
Laurence O'Brien
1863 - Apr 1864
Sir Anthony Musgrave
Apr 1864 - Jun 1869
Sir Stephan John Hill
Jul 1869 - 1875
Sir John Hawley Glover
1875 - 1881
Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter
1881
Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley Maxse
1881 - 10 Sep 1883
Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter
10 Sep 1883 - Jul 1883
Sir John Hawley Glover
Jul 1883 - 30 Sep 1885
Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter
30 Sep 1885 - 1886
Sir (George) William Des Voeux
1886 - Jan 1887
Sir Henry Arthur Blake
Jan 1887 - 1889
Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter
1889
Sir John Terence Nicolls O'Brien
1889 - 1895
Sir Herbert Harley Murray
1895 - 1898
Sir Henry Edward McCallum
1898 - 1901
Sir Cavendish Boyle
1901 - 1904
Sir William MacGregor
1904 - 1909
Sir Ralph Champneys Williams
1909 - Dec 1913
Sir Walter Edward Davidson
Dec 1913 - Oct 1917
Sir Charles Alexander Harris
Oct 1917 - Sep 1922
Sir William Lamond Allardyce
Sep 1922 - Oct 1928
Sir John Middleton
Oct 1928 - Sep 1932
Sir David Murray Anderson
Sep 1932 - Oct 1935
Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn
Oct 1935 - 16 Jan 1946
Sir Gordon MacDonald
16 Jan 1946 - 1 Apr 1949


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