GOVERNORS OF JAMAICA

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Contents

1655-1661 (Commanders)

1661-1662 (Governors)

1662-1671 (Deputy governors)

1671-1690 (Lieutenant-governors)

1691-1962 (Governors)

In Fiction

1655-1661 (Commanders)

English Commanders ruled Jamaica after the end of rule by Spanish Governor of Jamaica.

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★ 11 May 1655 - 1655 William Penn (b. 1621 - d. 1670)

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★ 1655 Robert Venables

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★ 1655 - 1656 Edward D'Oyley (b. 1617 - d. 1675)

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★ 1656 - 1657 William Brayne

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★ 1657 - 1661 Edward D'Oyley
Jamaica was a British Crown Colony with a colonial government lead by an appointed governor from 1661 to 1962.

1661-1662 (Governors)

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★ 1661 - Aug 1662 Edward D'Oyley

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★ Aug 1662 - Nov 1662 Thomas Windsor Hickman, 7th Baron Windsor

1662-1671 (Deputy governors)

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★ 1662 - 1663 Sir Charles Lyttelton (acting) (b. 1629 - d. 1716)

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★ 1663 - 1664 Thomas Lynch (acting)

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★ 1664 Edward Morgan

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★ 1664 - Aug 1671 Sir Thomas Modyford (d. 1674)

1671-1690 (Lieutenant-governors)

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★ Aug 1671 - Nov 1674 Sir Thomas Lynch

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★ 1674 - 1675 Sir Henry Morgan (acting) (b. 1635 - d. 1688)

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★ 1675 - 1678 John Vaugh

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★ 1678 Sir Henry Morgan (acting)

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★ 1678 - 1680 Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle (b. 1629 - d. 1685)

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★ 1680 - 1682 Sir Henry Morgan (acting)

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★ 1682 - 1684 Sir Thomas Lynch (2nd time)

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★ 1684 - Dec 1687 Hender Molesworth (acting)

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★ 1687 - 1688 Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (b. 1653 - d. 1688)

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★ 1688 - 1689 Hender Molesworth (acting)

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★ 1689 - 1690 Francis Watson (acting)

1691-1962 (Governors)

1690 - 1691	William O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin
1691 - 1692	John White (acting)
1692 - 1693	John Burden (acting)
Mar 1693 - Jan 1702 (acting 1699-1702)	Sir William Beeston (b. 1636 - d. 1702?)
1702	William Selwyn (d. 1702)
1702	Peter Beckford (acting)
1702 - 1711	Thomas Handasyde (acting to 1704) (d. 1712)
1711 - 1716	Lord Archibald Hamilton (b. 1673 - d. 1754)
1716 - 1718	Peter Heywood
1718 - 1722	Sir Nicholas Lawes
1722 - 4 Jul 1726	Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (b. 1682 - d. 1726)
1726 - 1728	John Ayscough (acting)
1728 - Mar 1734	General Robert Hunter (b. c.1675 - d. 1734)
1734 - 1735	John Ayscough (acting)
1735	John Gregory (acting)
1735 - 1736	Henry Cunninghame
1736 - 1738	John Gregory (acting)
1738 - 1752	Edward Trelawny (b. 1699 - d. 1754)
1752 - Jan 1756	Charles Knowles (d. 1777)
Feb 1756 - Apr 1756	Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet (acting) (b. 1713 - d. 1769)
Apr 1756 - Nov 1759	George Haldane (b. 1722 - d. 1759)
Nov 1759 - 1762	Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet (acting)
1762 - 1766	William Lyttelton 1st Baron Lyttelton (b. 1724 - d. 1808)
1766 - 1767	Roger Hope Elletson (d. 1775)
1767 - Dec 1772	Sir William Trelawney (d. 1772)
Dec 1772 - 1774	John Dalling (acting) (d. 1798)
1774 - 1777	Sir Basil Keith
1777 - 1781	John Dalling
1781 - 1784	Archibald Campbell (acting to 1783)(b. 1739 - d. 1791)
1784 - 1790	Alured Clarke (b. 1745 - d. 1832)
1790 - 19 Nov 1791	Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham (b. 1746 - d. 1791)
1791 - 1795	Sir Adam Williamson (acting) (b. 1736 - d. 1798)
1795 - 1801	Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres (b. 1752 - d. 1825)
1801 - 1805	Sir George Nugent (b. 1757 - d. 1849)
1805 - 1806	Sir George Nugent (acting)
1806 - 1808	Sir Eyre Coote (the Younger) (b. 1762 - d. 1824)
1808 - 1811	William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (b. 1771 - d. 1843)
1811 - 1813	Edward Morrison (acting)
1813 - 1821	William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester
1827 - 1829	Sir John Keane (acting) (b. 1781 - d. 1844)
1829 - 1832	Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore (b. 1774 - d. 1841)
1832	George Cuthbert (acting)
1832 - 1834	Constantine Henry Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave (b. 1797 - d. 1863)
1834	Sir Amos Norcot (acting)
1834	George Cuthbert (acting)
1834 - 1836	Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (b. 1788 - d. 1845)
1836 - 1839	Sir Lionel Smith (b. 1778 - d. 1842)
1839 - 1842	Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe (b. 1785 - d. 1846)
1842 - 1846	James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (b. 1811 - d. 1863)
1846 - 1847	George Henry Frederick Berkeley (acting) (b. 1785 - d. 1857)
1847 - 1853	Sir Charles Edward Grey (b. 1785 - d. 1865)
1853 - 1856	Sir Henry Barkly (b. 1815 - d. 1898)
1856 - 1857	Edward Wells Bell (acting)
1857 - 1862	Charles Henry Darling (b. 1809 - d. 1870)
1862 - 1865	Edward John Eyre (acting to 1864) (b. 1815 - d. 1901)
12 Dec 1865 - 16 Jul 1866	Sir Henry Knight Storks (b. 1811 - d. 1874)
1866 - 1874	Sir John Peter Grant (b. 1807 - d. 1893)
1874	W.A.G. Young (acting) (b. 1818 - d. 1878)
1874 - Jan 1877	Sir William Grey (b. 1818 - d. 1878)
Jan 1877	Edward Everard Rushworth Mann (acting)
Jan 1877 - 1883	Sir Anthony Musgrave (b. 1828 - d. 1888)
1883	Somerset M. Wiseman Clarke (acting)
1883	Dominic Jacotin Gamble (acting)
1883 - 1889	Sir Henry Wylie Norman (b. 1826 - d. 1904)
1889	William Clive Justice (acting)
1889 - 1898	Sir Henry Arthur Blake (b. 1840 - d. 1918)
1898	Henry Jardine Hallowes (acting) (b. 1838 - d. 1926)
1898 - 1904	Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming (b. 1842 - d. 1907)
1904	Sydney Haldane Olivier (acting) (b. 1859 - d. 1943)
1904	Hugh Clarence Bourne (acting)
30 Sep 1904 - 1907	Sir James Alexander Swettenham (b. 1846 - d. 1933)
1907	Hugh Clarence Bourne (acting)
16 May 1907 - Jan 1913	Sydney Haldane Olivier
Jan 1913 - 7 Mar 1913	Philip Clark Cork (acting) (b. 1854 - d. 1936)
7 Mar 1913 - 11 May 1918	Sir William Henry Manning (b. 1863 - d. 1932)
11 May 1918 - 11 Jun 1918	Robert Johnstone (acting) (b. 1861 - d. 1944)
11 Jun 1918 - 1924	Sir Leslie Probyn (b. 1862 - d. 1938)
1924	Herbert Bryan (1st time) (acting) (b. 1865 - d. 1950)
29 Sep 1924 - Jun 1925	Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson (b. 1873 - d. 1950)
1925	Sir Herbert Bryan (acting)
Oct 1925 - 26 Apr 1926	A.S. Jeef (acting)
26 Apr 1926 - 9 Nov 1932	Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs (b. 1876 - d. 1947)
9 Nov 1932 - 21 Nov 1932	A.S. Jeef (acting)
21 Nov 1932 - Apr 1934	Sir Alexander Ransford Slater (b. 1874 - d. 1940)
Apr 1934 - 24 Oct 1934	A.S. Jeef (3rd time) (acting)
24 Oct 1934 - 2 Jun 1938	Sir Edward Brandis Denham (b. 1876 - d. 1938)
2 Jun 1938 - 19 Aug 1938	Charles Campbell Woolley (acting) (b. 1893 - d. 1981)
19 Aug 1938 - Jul 1943	Sir Arthur Frederick Richards (b. 1885 - d. 1978)
Jul 1943 - 29 Sep 1943	William Henry Flinn (acting) (b. 1895 - d. 1973)
29 Sep 1943 - 7 Apr 1951	Sir John Huggins (b. 1891 - d. 1971)
7 Apr 1951 - 18 Nov 1957	Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot (b. 1907 - d. 1990)
18 Dec 1957 - 6 Aug 1962	Sir Kenneth Blackburne (b. 1907 - d. 1980)

Jamaica gained independence and the role of Governor and Chief Minister was passed on to the Governor General of Jamaica and the Prime Minister of Jamaica.

In Fiction

Fictional Governors of Jamaica appeared im many works about Piracy in the Caribbean.

? - ? (in office in 1668)	Govenor Ainslee (in ''Cutthroat Island'')
1688 - 1689	Colonel William Bishop (in ''Captain Blood'')
1689 - ?	Peter Blood (in ''Captain Blood'')
? - 1718	Lord Durant (in ''Swashbuckler'')
? - ? (by now for 9 years)	Weatherby Swann (in ''Pirates of the Caribbean'')