Barbados Administrators


Lords Proprietors
Sir William Courteen
14 May 1625 - 1627
James Hay, Earl of Carlisle
 2 Jul 1627 - 1628
Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
1628 - 1629
James Hay, Earl of Carlisle
1629 - 25 Apr 1636
James Hay II, Earl of Carlisle
25 Apr 1636 - 30 Oct 1660
Governors
Henry Powell
17 Feb 1627 - 1628
William Deane
1628 - Jun 1628 
Charles Wolverston
Jun 1628 - 26 Feb 1629
John Powell
26 Feb 1629 - 29 Aug 1629
Robert Wheatley (acting)
29 Aug 1629 - Sep 1629 
Sir William Tufton
21 Dec 1629 - 16 Jul 1630
Henry Hawley
1630 - 1633
Richard Peers (acting)
1633 - 1634
Henry Hawley
1634
Richard Peers (acting)
1634 - 1636
Henry Hawley
1636 - 1638
William Hawley (acting)
1638 - 1639 
Henry Hawley
1639 - Jun 1640
Sir Henry Hunks
Jun 1640 - 18 Jun 1641
Philip Bell
18 Jun 1641 - May 1650
Francis, Baron Willoughby of Parham
May 1650 - 1651 
Sir George Ayscue
Oct 1651 - 1652
Daniel Searle (acting)
1652 - Jul 1660
Thomas Modyford
Jul 1660 - 1660 
Humphrey Walrond (acting)  
1660 - Aug 1663 
Francis, Baron Willoughby of Parham
Aug 1663 - 23 Jul 1666
Henry Willoughby
1666 - 1667
William, Baron of Willoughby
Apr 1667 - 1668
Christopher Codrington (acting)
1668 - 1669 
William, Baron of Willoughby
1669 - 1670
Christopher Codrington (acting)
1670 - 1672
William, Baron of Willoughby
1672 - 1673 
Sir Peter Colleton (acting)
1673 - 1674 
Sir Jonathan Atkins
1674 - 1681
Sir Richard Dutton
Mar 1681 - 1683 
Sir John Witham (acting)
1683 - 1684
Sir Richard Dutton
1684 - 1685
Edwin Stede (acting)
1685 - 1690  
James Kendall
1690 - 1694
Francis Russell
1694 - 1696 
Francis Bond (acting)
1696 - Dec 1697
Ralph Gray 
Dec 1697 - Dec 1701
John Farmer (acting)
Dec 1701 - 1703 
Sir Bevil Granville
1703 - 1706 
William Sharpe (acting) 
1706 - 1707  
Mitford Crow
1707 - 1710
George Lillington (acting) 
1710 - 1711
Robert Lowther
1711 - Jan 1714 
William Sharpe (acting) 
Jan 1714 - 1715
Robert Lowther
1715 - 1720 
Samuel Cox (acting)
1720
John Frere (acting) 
1720 - 1721
Samuel Cox (acting)
1721 - 1722
Henry Worsley 
1722 - 1727
Thomas Catesby Paget  
1727 - 1731
Walter Chetwynd
1731 - 1732
Samuel Barwick, Jr. (acting)
1732 -  1 Jan 1733 
James Dotin (acting)
1733
Emanuel Scrope, Viscount Howe 
1733 - 29 Mar 1735
James Dotin (acting)
1735 - 1738
Sir Humphrey Howorth 
1738
Thomas Gage, Viscount Gage
1738 - 1739
Robert Byng
May 1739 - 1740
Henry Peers
1740 -  4 Sep 1740
James Dotin (acting)
1740 - 1742 
Sir Thomas Robinson
1742–1747
Henry Grenville
1747–1756
Ralph Weeks (acting)
1753
Henry Grenville
1753 - 1756  
Charles Pinfold
10 Aug 1756 - 27 May 1766 
Samuel Rous (acting)
27 May 1766 - 13 Feb 1768 
William Spry
13 Feb 1768 -  3 Sep 1772
Samuel Rous (acting)
Sep 1772 -  8 Jun 1773
Edward Hay
8 Jun 1773 - 1778
John Dotin
1778 - 12 Jul 1780 
James Cunninghame
12 Jul 1780 - 1782
John Dotin
19 Jul 1782 -  7 Jan 1783
David Parry
7 Jan 1783 - 1789
Henry Frere (acting)
11 Jul 1789 - 24 Jun 1790
David Parry
Jun 1790 - 1793 
William Bishop (acting)
21 Jul 1793 - 26 May 1794
George Poyntz Rickets 
26 May 1794 -  1 Jun 1799
William Bishop (acting)
1799 - 27 Mar 1800  
Francis Humberstone Mackenzie
27 Mar 1801 - 19 Nov 1803
John Ince (acting)
1803 - 1804
Francis Humberstone Mackenzie
20 Aug 1804 - 25 Jul 1806
John Spooner (acting)
25 Jul 1806 - 30 Jul 1810 
Sir George Beckwith
31 Jul 1810 - 23 Jun 1814
John Spooner (acting)
23 Jun 1814 - May 1815 
Sir James Leith
10 May 1815 - 16 Oct 1816 
John Spooner (acting)
21 Oct 1816 -  7 Apr 1817
John Foster Alleyne (acting)
Apr 1817 - Jun 1817 
Stapleton Cotton, Viscount Combermere
Jun 1817 - 1820
John Braithwaite Skeete (acting)
12 Jun 1820 - 18 Apr 1821
Samuel Hinds (acting)
18 Apr 1821 - 26 Jul 1821 
Sir Henry Warde
26 Jul 1821 - 1825
John Braithwaite Skeete (acting)
26 May 1825 - 24 Aug 1826
Sir Henry Warde
24 Aug 1826 - 1827
John Braithwaite Skeete (acting)
21 Jan 1827 - 1829
Sir James Lyon
10 Feb 1829 - 1833
Sir Lionel Smith
27 Apr 1833 - 1836
John Alleyne Beckles (acting)
20 Aug 1836 - 18 Oct 1836
Evan John Murray MacGregor
18 Oct 1836 - 14 Jun 1841
John Braithwaite Skeete (acting)
Jun 1841 - 29 Jun 1841
Charles Henry Darling (acting)
29 Jun 1841 - 22 Feb 1842
Sir Charles Edward Grey
22 Feb 1842 - 1846
J.R. Best (acting)
1846
William Reid 
9 Dec 1846 - 1848
William Macbean George Colebrooke
8 Sep 1848 - 1856
Grant E. Thomas (acting)
1856
Francis Hincks
1856 -  4 Jan 1862
James Walker
 4 Jan 1862 - 1868 
Rawson William Rawson
1868 - 1875
Sanford Freeling (acting)
1875
Sir John Pope Hennessy
1875 - 1876
George Cumine Strahan 
20 Dec 1876 - 1880 
D.J. Gamble (acting)
1880
William Robinson  
1880 - 1885 
Sir Charles Cameron Lees  
1885 - 1889
Sir Walter Joseph Sendall
1889 - 1891 
Sir James Shaw Hay 
1891 - 1900 
Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson
18 Feb 1900 - 1904 
Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter
24 Oct 1904 - 1911  
Sir Leslie Probyn
13 Feb 1911 - 1918
Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien 
27 Sep 1918 - 1925
William Charles Fleming Robertson
31 Dec 1925 - Jan 1933 
Harry Scott Newlands
Jan 1933 - 12 Mar 1933
George Douglas Owen (acting)
1933
Mark Aitchison Young
5 Aug 1933 - Mar 1938
William Henry Flinn (acting)
Mar 1938 -  6 Aug 1938
Eubule John Waddington
6 Aug 1938 - 1941 
  Sir Henry Grattan Bushe
23 Oct 1941 - 1947 
Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood
5 Feb 1947 - 1949 
Alfred William Lungley Savage 
 1 Nov 1949 - 1953
Sir Robert Duncan Harris Arundell
14 May 1953 - 1959
Sir John Montague Stow  
8 Oct 1959 - 29 Nov 1966


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