List of colonial governors of Saint Lucia

This is a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia from the first French settlement in 1650, until the island gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1979.

Governors of the French colony of Sainte Lucie, 1762–1802

• George Brydges Rodney 1762–1763 (British occupation)
• Pierre Lucien de La Chapelle de Jumilhac 1763–1764
• Claude Anne de Micoud 1764–1771
• Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1771–1772 (first time)
• Frédéric Laure de Kearney 1772–1773
• Alexandre Potier de Courcy 1773–1776
• Marc Étienne de Joubert 1776–1778
• Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1778–1781 (second time)
• Anthony St Leger 1781–1783 (British occupation)
• Jean Zénon André de Véron de Laborie 1784–1789
• Jean Joseph de Gimat 1789–1793
• Nicolas Xavier de Ricard 1793–1794
• Sir Charles Gordon 1794–1795 (British occupation)
• James Stewart 1795 (British occupation)
• Gaspard Goyrand 1795–1796 (Commissioner)
• John Moore 1796–1797 (British occupation)
• James Drummond 1797–1798 (British occupation)
• George Prevost 1798–1802 (British occupation)
• George Henry Vansittart 1802 (British occupation)
• Jean François Xavier Nogues 1802–1803

Governors of the British colony of Saint Lucia 1802–1834

• Robert Brereton 1803–1807
• Alexander Wood 1807–1814
• Francis Delaval 1814–1815
• Edward Stehelin 1815–1816
• Robert Douglas 1816
• Richard Augustus Seymour 1816–1817
• Edward O'Hara 1817–1818
• John Keane 1818–1819
• John Joseph Winkler 1819–1821
• John Montagu Mainwaring 1821–1824 (first time)
• Nathaniel Shepherd Blackwell 1824–1826
• John Montagu Mainwaring 1826–1827 (second time)
• Lorenzo Moore 1827–1829
• David Stewart 1829
• Francis Power 1829–1830
• James Alexander Farquharson 1830–1831 (first time)
• George Mackie 1831
• Mark Anthony Bozon 1831–1832
• James Alexander Farquharson 1832–1834 (second time)

Lieutenant-Governors of Saint Lucia, 1834–1857

Subordinate to the Governor of the British Windward Islands:

• Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill 1834–1837
• Thomas Bunbury 1837–1838
• John Alexander Mein 1838–1839
• Mathias Everard 1839–1841
• George Graydon 1841–1843
• Andrew Clarke 1843–1844
• Arthur Wellesley Torrens 1844–1848
• Sir Charles Henry Darling 1848–1852
• Henry Clermont Cobbe 1852
• Maurice Power 1852–1857

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1857–1889

• Henry Heggart Breen 1857–1862
• James Mayer Grant 1862–1869
• Sir William Des Vœux 1869–1878
• Arthur Elibank Havelock 1878–1879
• Sir Roger Goldsworthy 1881–1884
• Edward Laborde 1885–1889

Commissioners of Saint Lucia 1889–1958

• Robert Baxter Llewelyn 1889–1891
• Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury 1891–1896
• Charles Anthony King-Harman 1896–1899
• Sir Harry Langhorne Thompson 1900–1902
• Sir George Melville 1902–1905
• Philip Clark Cork 1905–1909
• Edward John Cameron 1909–1914
• William Douglas Young 1914–1915
• Gideon Oliphant-Murray 1915–1918
• Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston 1918–1927
• Charles William Doorly 1927–1935
• Edward William Baynes 1935–1938
• Arthur Alban Wright 1938–1944
• Edward Francis Twining 1944–1946
• John Montague Stow 1947–1953
• John Kingsmill Thorp 1953–1958

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1958–1967

After incorporation into the Federation of the West Indies:

• Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1958–1962
• Gerald Jackson Bryan 1962–1967

Governors of Saint Lucia 1967–1979

On 27 February 1967, Saint Lucia became an associated state of the United Kingdom, responsible for its own internal affairs.

• Sir Frederick Clarke 1967–1971
• Sir Ira Marcus Simmons 1971–1974
• Sir Allen Lewis 1974–1979

On 22 February, 1979, Saint Lucia achieved independence from the United Kingdom. For a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia after independence, see Governor-General of Saint Lucia.

See also

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References

• http://www.rulers.org/ruls1.html#saint_lucia