List of Governors of the Isle of Wight
Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of the Isle of Wight in England:
Governors of the Isle of Wight
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- 1509–1520: Sir Nicholas I Wadham (d.1542) "Captain of the Isle of Wight".[1]
- 1538–1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (later Earl of Essex)
- 1558–?: John Paulet Lord St John (later Marquess of Winchester)
- 1565–1583: Sir Edward Horsey
- 1583–1603: Sir George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon
- 1603–1624: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
- 1633–1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
- 1642–1647: Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
- 1647–1647: Robert Hammond
- 1648–1659: Col. William Sydenham
- 1660: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- 1660–1661: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
- 1661–1667: Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
- 1668–1692: Sir Robert Holmes
- 1693: Hon. Thomas Tollemache
- 1693–1707: John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
- 1707–1710: Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton
- 1710–1715: General John Richmond Webb
- 1715–1726: William Cadogan (later Earl Cadogan)
- 1726–1733: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
- 1733–1734: John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
- 1734–1742: John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington
- 1742–1746: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
- 1746–1762: John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth
- 1763–1764: Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes
- 1764–1766: Hans Stanley
- 1766–1770: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton
- 1770–1780: Hans Stanley
- 1780–1782: Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
- 1782–1791: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton
- 1791–1807: Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton
- 1807–1841: James Harris, 2nd Earl of Malmesbury
- 1841–1857: William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
- 1857–1888: Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley
- 1889–1896: Prince Henry of Battenberg
- 1896–1944: Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
- 1957–1965: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
- 1965–1974: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Lord Lieutenant 1974–1979)
- 1992–1995: David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone
References
Sources
- The London Gazette
- Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
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