List of Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed
Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, including the garrison at Holy Island (during English occupation of the Royal Burgh):
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Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed
For Scotland
- 1295 -1296 Sir William Douglas
- 1333 Sir William Keith
For England
For Scotland
- 1461 Sir Robert Lauder
- 1478: Sir Robert Lauder (again)
For England
- (Henry VIII): Sir Thomas Clifford
- (Mary I): John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers
- 1568-?: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
For Great Britain
- (James I): John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon
- c.1610: Sir James Dundas of Arniston[2]
- 1660-1675: William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington
- 1675-1686: Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1686-1688: William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington
- 1689–1690: Philip Babington
- 1691–1699: Richard Leveson
- 1702–1711: Edmund Maine
- 1713–1715: Sir Henry Belasyse
- 1715–1718: Charles Wills
- 1718–1719: George MacCartney
- 1719–1732: Joseph Sabine
- 1732–1733: George Wade[3]
- 1733–1735: Rich Russell[4]
- 1735–1740: Philip Honywood[5]
- 1740–1741: Thomas Whetham[6]
- 1742: James Tyrrell[7]
- 1742–1753: Thomas Howard[8]
- 1753–1765: John Guise[9]
- 1765–1778: Robert Monckton[10]
- 1778: Sir John Clavering[11] (in fact Clavering had died in the East Indies the previous year)
- 1778–1780: Sir John Mordaunt[12]
- 1780–1795: Hon. John Vaughan[13]
- 1795–1808: Hon. William Howe, later Viscount Howe[14]
- 1808–1833: Banastre Tarleton[15]
- 1833–1850: Sir James Bathurst[16]
Lieutenant-Governors
- 1702–1705: Edward Nott[17]
- 1705: William Dobyns[18]
- ?–1733: Rich Russell
- 1733–1737: James St. Clair[19]
- 1737–1747: John Pricev[20]
- 1749–1764: John Barrington[21]
- 1765?-1767: Roderick Gwynne
- 1767–1793: William Hill[22]
- 1793–1794: Gerard Lake[23]
- 1794–1795: Edmund Stevens[24]
- 1795: George Ludlow[25]
References
- ↑ http://www.cyberancestors.com/cummins/ps111/ps111_291.htm
- ↑ Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 7097. p. 1. 3 June 1732.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 7205. p. 1. 16 June 1733.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 7428. p. 1. 12 August 1735.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 7909. p. 2. 10 May 1740.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 8119. p. 2. 15 May 1742.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 8161. p. 2. 9 October 1742.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 9264. p. 2. 1 May 1753.
- ↑ John Brooke, MONCKTON, Hon. Robert (1726-82). in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790, 1964.
- ↑ Robert Beatson, A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2 (London, 1806), page 157
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 11867. p. 1. 18 April 1778.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 12132. p. 1. 31 October 1780.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 13801. p. 805. 1 August 1795.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16122. p. 284. 23 February 1808.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 19019. p. 247. 5 February 1833.
- ↑ Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, volume V (London, 1902) page 156.
- ↑ Dalton, English Army Lists, volume V, page 158.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 7205. p. 1. 16 June 1733.
- ↑ Notes and Queries, 12th series, volume III, page 11. 6 January 1917.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 8874. p. 1. 8–12 August 1749.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 10767. p. 2. 26–29 September 1767.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 13583. p. 926. 19–22 October 1793.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 13706. p. 963. 20–23 September 1794.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 13796. p. 743. 14–18 July 1795.
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