Bahamas (01)

1718-1973 British rule


1718-1869






YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1718 26 july UK colony Woodes Rogers (I)
1721 George Phenney
1729 august Woodes Rogers (II)
1732 Richard Thompson
1733 november Richard Fitzwilliam
1740 John Tinker
1758 John Gambier (I)
1760 William Shirley
1768 28 november Thomas Shirley
1774 Monfort Browne (I)
1776 3 march American occupation Samuel Nicholas
1776 17 march UK colony John Gambier (II)
1778 Monfort Browne (II)
1780 John Robert Maxwell (I)
1782 8 may Spanish occupation Bernardo de Gálvez
1783 19 april UK colony Andrew De Vau
1783 John Robert Maxwell (II)
1784 James Edward Powell
1786 John Brown
1787 John Murray, Earl of Dunmore
1796 Robert Hunt
1797 14 february John Forbes
1797 20 november William Dowdeswell
1801 John Halkett
1804 8 may Charles Cameron
1821 Lewis Grant
1829 James Carmichael Smyth
1833 Blayney Townley Balfour
1835 William Macbean George Colebrooke
1837 Francis Cockburne
1844 George Benvenuto Matthew
1849 John Gregory
1854 Sir Alexander Bannerman
1857 Charles John Bayley
1864 Rawson William Rawson

1869-1904





YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1869 Sir James Walker
1871 George Cumine Strahan
1873 Sir John Pope Hennessy
1874 William Robinson
1880 Jeremias Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan
1882 Sir Charles Cameron Lees
1884 4 january Sir Henry Arthur Blake
1887 Sir Ambrose Shea
1895 Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
1898 Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter

1904-1919


YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1904 29 november Sir William Grey-Wilson
1912 20 october Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith
1914 15 june Sir William Lamond Allardyce

1919-1955

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1919
1920 8 december Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux
1927 15 march Sir Charles William James Orr
1932 10 january Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford
1934 Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas
1940 18 august King Edward VIII Duke of Windsor
1945 28 july Sir William Lindsay Murphy
1950 5 january Sir George Ritchie Sandford
1950 7 december Sir Robert Arthur Ross Neville
1953 21 december Thomas David Knox, Earl of Ranfurly

1955-1964

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1955 Sir Roland T. Symonette
1957 1 april Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur
1960 18 july Sir Robert Stapeldon de Stapeldon

1964-73

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1964 7 january UK self governing colony Sir Roland T. Symonette Sir Robert Stapeldon de Stapeldon
1964 3 june Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton
1967 16 january Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling
1972 14 may Sir John Warburton Paul


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