Bahamas Administrators


Governors
William Sayle
1648 - 1657
Hugh Wentworth
1671 - Dec 1671
John Wentworth
Dec 1671 - 1676
Charles Chillingworth
1676 - 1677
Roger Clarke
1677 - 1682
Richard Lilburne
1682 - 1684
Thomas Bridges
1687 - 1690
Cadwallader Jones
1690 - 1693
Nicholas Trott
1694 - 1696
Nicholas Webb
1697 - 1699
Read Elding
1699 - 1700
Elias Haskett
1700 - 1701
Ellis Lightfoot
1701 - 1705
Edward Birch
Jan 1706 - 1706
Thomas Walker
1706
Woodes Rogers
26 Jul 1718 - 1721
George Phenney
1721 - 1729
Woodes Rogers
Aug 1729 - 16 Jul 1732
Richard Thompson
1732 - Nov 1733
Richard Fitzwilliams
Nov 1733 - 1740
John Tinker
1740 - 1758
John Gambier
1758 - 1760
William Shirley
1760 - 28 Nov 1768
Thomas Shirley
28 Nov 1768 - 1774
Montfort Browne
1774 - 3 Mar 1776
John Gambier
17 Mar 1776 - 1778
Montfort Browne
1778 - 1779
John Robert Maxwell
1780 -'8 May 1782
Andrew De Vau
1783
John Robert Maxwell
1783 - 1784
James Edward Powell
1784 - 1786
John Brown
1786 - 1787
John Murray, Earl of Dunmore
1787 - 1796
Robert Hunt
1796 - 14 Feb 1797
John Forbes
14 Feb 1797 - Jun 1797
William Dowdeswell
20 Nov 1797 - 1801
John Halkett
1801 - 1804
Charles Cameron
8 May 1804 - 1820
Lewis Grant
1821 - 1829
James Carmichael Smyth
1829 - 1833
Blayney Townley Balfour
1833 - 1835
William Macbean George Colebrooke
1835 - 1837
Francis Cockburne
1837 - 1844
George Benvenuto 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
George Cumine Strahan
1871 - 1873
Sir John Pope Hennessy
1873 - 1874
Sir William Robinson
1874 - 1880
Jeremias Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan
1880 - 1881
Charles Cameron Lees
1881 - Jan 1884
Sir Henry Arthur Blake
4 Jan 1884 - 1887
Sir Ambrose Shea
1887 - 1895
Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
1895 - 1898
Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter
1898 - 29 Nov 1904
Sir William Grey-Wilson
29 Nov 1904 - 1912
Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith
29 Oct 1912 - 1914
Sir William Lamond Allardyce
15 Jun 1914 - 1920
Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux
8 Dec 1920 - 1926
Charles William James Orr
15 Mar 1927 - Jan 1932
Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford
10 Jan 1932 - 1934
Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas
1934 - 1940
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor
18 Aug 1940 - 1945
William Lindsay Murphy
28 Jul 1945 - 1950
Sir George Ritchie Sandford
5 Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
Robert Arthur Ross Neville
7 Dec 1950 - 1953
Thomas David Knox
21 Dec 1953 - 1956
Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur
1 Apr 1957 - 1960
Sir Robert Stapledon de Stapledon
18 Jul 1960 - 1964
Sir Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey
3 Jun 1964 - 1968
Sir Francis Edward Hovell Thurlow
1 Nov 1968 - 1972
Sir John Warburton Paul
14 May 1972 - 10 Jul 1973


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