List of Governors of the Leeward Islands
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Below is a list of Governors of the Leeward Islands from the creation of the colony until the Federation of the West Indies was formed in 1958.
[edit] Governors of the the Leeward Islands (1699-1958)
- 1671-1704: Christopher Codrington
- 1704: John Johnson (first time, acting)
- 1704: Sir William Mathew
- 1704-1706: John Johnson (second time, acting)
- 1706-1710: Daniel Parke
- 1710-1711: Walter Hamilton (first time, acting)
- 1711-1714: Walter Douglas
- 1714-1715: William Mathew, Jr. (first time, acting)
- 1715-1721: Walter Hamilton (second time)
- 1721-1728: John Hart
- 1728-1729: The Earl of Londonderry
- 1729: William Cosby (acting)
- 1729-1752: William Mathew, Jr. (second time)
- 1753-1766: George Thomas
- 1766-1768: James Vercild
- 1768-1771: William Woodley (first time)
- 1771-1776: Sir Ralph Payne (later The Lord Lavington)
- 1776-1781: William Mathew Burt
- 1781-1788: Thomas Shirley (first time)
- 1788-1790: John Nugent
- 1790-1791: Thomas Shirley (second time)
- 1791-1793: William Woodley (second time)
- 1795-1799: Charles Leigh
- 1799-1807: The Lord Lavington
- 1808-1814: Hugh Elliott
- 1814-1816: Sir James Leith
- 1833-1871: Governors of Antigua
- 1871-1873: Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine
- 1873-1874: Sir Henry Turner Irving
- 1875-1881: Sir George Berkeley
- 1881: H.J.B. Bufford-Hancock (acting)
- 1881-1884: Sir John Hawley Glover
- 1884-1885: Sir Charles Cameron Lees
- 1885: Charles Monroe Eldridge
- 1885-1888: The Viscount Gormanston
- 1888: Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell (acting)
- 1888-1895: Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
- 1895-1901: Sir Francis Fleming
- 1901-1902: Sir Henry Moore Jackson
- 1902-1904: Sir Gerald Strickland
- 1904-1905: Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys
- 1906-1912: Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott
- 1912-1916: Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
- 1916-1921: Sir Edward Marsh Merewether
- 1921-1929: Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Bt
- 1929-1936: Sir Thomas Reginald St Johnston
- 1936-1941: Sir Gordon James Lethem
- 1941-1943: Sir Douglas James Jardine
- 1943-1947: Sir Leslie Brian Freeston
- 1947-1948: W.R. Macnie (acting)
- 1948-1950: The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
- 1950-1956: Sir Kenneth Blackburne
- 1956-1958: Sir Alexander Thomas Williams
