Dominica (01)

1627-1978 British rule


1627-1761

YEAR DATE EVENT
1627 French colony

1761-1890

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1761 UK colony
1768 8 march William Young (I)
1771 William Stewart
1771 William Young (II)
1774 5 february Thomas Shirley
1778 11 march French colony Marie-Charles, marquis du Chilleau
1784 UK colony John Orde
1789 Thomas Bruce
1794 Henry Hamilton
1797 Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone
1802 27 september George Prevost
1805 George Metcalfe
1808 27 may James Montgomery
1809 Edward Barnes
1813 George Robert Ainslie
1814 june Vacant
1816 Charles William Maxwell
1819 Samuel Ford Whittingham
1822 Hans Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon
1824 William Nicolay
1831 Evan John Murray McGregor
1833 UK Leeward Islands colony
1837 Sir William Macbean George Colebrooke
1842 Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy
1847 Sir James Macaulay Higginson
1850 Robert James Mackintosh
1855 Ker Baillie Hamilton
1863 Sir Stephen John Hill
1869 Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine
1872 Alexander Wilson Moir
1873 Charles Monroe Eldridge
1882 James Meade
1887 Charles Ruthven LeHunte

1890-1940


YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1890
1895 Philip Arthur Templer
1899 Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
1905 William Douglas Young
1914 Edward Rawle Drayton
1915 Arthur William Mahaffy
1919 Robert Walter
1923 november Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston
1924 july Edward Carlyon Eliot
1931 Walter Andrew Bowring
1933 Henry Bradshaw Popham
1938 James Scott Neill

1940-1957


YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1940 UK Windward Islands colony
1946 Edwin Porter Arrowsmith
1952 Harry Laurence Lindo

1958-1965

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1958 3 january State of West Indies Federation
1962 31 may UK colony Edward Oliver Le Blanc Alec Lovelace

1965-1978

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1965
1967 1 march Associated state to UK Edward Oliver Le Blanc Geoffrey Colin Guy
1968 Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue
1974 27 july Patrick Rowland John


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