New Foundland and Labrador


1583-1904

YEAR DATE EVENT KING PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1583 5 august UK colony Sir Humphrey Gilbert
1593 9 november Vacant
1610 John Guy
1613 William Colston
1615 John Mason
1621 Robert Hayman
1628 George Calvert, Baron of Baltimore
1629 september Cecil Calvert, Baron of Baltimore
1634 William Hill
1638 Sir David Kirke
1640 20 june John Downing, Sr.
1651 8 april John Littlebury
1653 27 may John Treworgie
1660 24 may Permanent government allowed to lapse. Functions passed to the royal navy commodores of the fishing convoys -
1729 Civil government begins Henry Osborne
1731 George Clinton
1732 Edward Falkingham
1733 Robert MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry
1735 Fitzroy Henry Lee
1738 Philip Vanbrugh
1739 Henry Medley
1740 George Grahame
1741 Thomas Smith (I)
1742 John Byng
1743 Thomas Smith (II)
1744 Sir Charles Hardy
1745 Richard Edwards
1746 James Douglas
1746 Vacant
1748 march Charles Watson
1749 George Brydges Rodney
1750 Francis William Drake
1753 Hugh Bonfoy
1755 Richard Dorril
1757 Richard Edwards (I)
1761 James Webb
1761 14 may Thomas Graves (I)
1762 27 june Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville
1762 18 september Thomas Graves (II)
1764 Sir Hugh Palliser
1769 John Byron
1772 Molyneux Shuldham, Baron Shuldham
1775 Robert Duff
1776 7 may John Montague
1779 Richard Edwards (II)
1782 John Campbell
1786 John Elliott
1789 Mark Malibanke
1792 Sir Richard King
1794 Sir James Wallace
1797 William Waldegrave
1800 Sir Charles Morice Pole
1802 James Gambier
1804 Sir Erasmus Gower
1807 26 july John Holloway
1810 Sir John Thomas Duckworth
1813 Sir Richard Godwin Keats
1816 Sir Francis Pickmore
1818 24 february Sir Francis Pickmore
1818 20 july UK Crown colony Sir Charles Hamilton
1825 Sir Thomas Cochrane
1834 Henry Prescott
1841 16 september Sir John Harvey
1846 John Law
1847 John Gaspard LeMarchant
1852 december Ker Baille Hamilton
1855 7 may Dominion queen Victoria Philip Francis Little Charles Henry Darling
1857 Charles Henry Darling
1857 Sir Alexander Bannerman
1858 John Kent
1861 may Sir Hugh W. Hoyles
1863 Laurence O'Brien
1864 april Sir Anthony Musgrave
1865 november Sir Frederick Carter (I)
1869 july Sir Stephan John Hill
1869 november Charles Fox Bennett
1874 november Sir Frederick Carter (II)
1875 Sir John Hawley Glover (I)
1878 november Sir William V. Whiteway (I)
1881 Sir Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley Maxse
1883 10 september Sir Frederick Carter (I)
1885 july Sir John Hawley Glover (II)
1885 30 september Sir Frederick Carter (II)
1885 november Sir Robert Thornburn
1886 Sir George William Des Voeux
1887 january Sir Henry Arthur Blake
1889 30 september Sir Frederick Carter (III)
1889 november Sir William V. Whiteway (II) Sir John Terrence Nicolls O'Brien
1894 april Augustus F. Goodridge
1894 13 december Daniel J. Green
1895 Sir Herbert Harley Murray
1897 october Sir James Spearman Winter
1898 Sir Herbert Edward McCallum
1900 6 march Sir Robert Bond
1901 Edward VII
1901 Sir Cavendish Boyle

1904-1934

YEAR DATE EVENT KING PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1904 Sir William MacGregor
1909 2 march Sir Edward Patrick Morris Sir Ralph Champneys Williams
1910 George V
1913 december Sir Walter Edward Davidson
1917 october Sir Charles Alexander Harris
1918 5 january William Frederick Lloyd
1919 22 may Sir Michael Patrick Cashin
1922 september Sir William Lamond Allardyce
1923 24 july William Warren
1924 10 may Albert Edgar Hickman
1924 9 june Walter Stanley Monroe
1928 august Frederick C. Alderdice (I)
1928 october Sir John Middleton
1928 17 november Sir Richard Squires (II)
1932 june Frederick C. Alderdice (II)
1932 september Sir David Murray Anderson
1933 2 december UK colony

1934-1949

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1934 30 january
1935 october Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn
1946 16 january Sir Gordon MacDonald

1949-

YEAR DATE EVENT
1949 1 april 10^ Canada provence


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