List of colonial governors and administrators of Tobago

This article lists governors of Tobago. Governors of Tobago have been referred to by the formal titles of "Governor" and "Lieutenant-Governor". For governors of the united Trinidad and Tobago after 1889 see List of governors of Trinidad and Tobago.

Lieutenant governors of British Tobago (1764–1781)

• Alexander Brown (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 12 November 1764 – July 1766
• William Hill – 2 December 1766 – 16 October 1767
• Roderick Gwynne – 16 October 1767 – 1769
• Robert William Stewart – 1769–1771
• William Young (Lt. Governor of Tobago) of Auchenskeoch Castle (Scotland) – 1771–1777
• Peter Campbell (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1777–1779
• John Graham (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1779–1781
• George Ferguson (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1781 – 2 June 1781

Governors of French Tobago (1781–1793)

• Philibert François Rouxel de Blanchelande – 2 June 1781 – 1784
• Rene Maria viconte d'Arrot – 1784–1786
• Arthur Dillon – 1786–1789
• Antoine de Jobal de Poigny – 1789–1792
• Philippe Marie de Marguenat – 1792–1793
• Laroque de Mointeil – 1793

Governors of British Tobago (1793–1899)

• William Myers – April 1793
• George Poyntz Ricketts – 1793–1795 ^[1]
• Joseph Robley – 1795 (acting)
• William Lindsay – 1795–1796 ^[2]
• James Campbell – 1796–1797
• Stephen de Lancey – 1797–1799
• Joseph Robley – 1799–1800 (acting)
• Richard Master – 1800
• Joseph Robley – 1800–1801 (acting)
• Hugh Lyle Carmichael - 1801 – 7 November 1802 (acting)
• Jean Joseph François de Sahuguet d'Amarzit de Laroche – 7 November 1802 – 1803
• Louis Cesar Gabriel Berthier – 1803
• Thomas Picton – 30 June 1803 – July 1803
• William Johnstone – July 1803 – August 1803
• Donald MacDonald – August 1803 – July 1804
• John Halkett – July 1804 – 1807
• Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet – 1807–1815
• John Balfour – 1815–1816
• John Campbell – 1816
• Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson – November 1816
• Sir Colin Campbell - February 1828 - April 1828 ^[3]
• Nathaniel Blackwell – April 1828 – 1833 ^[4]
• Alexander Gardner – 1833 – (Acting)
• General Sir Lionel Smith – 1833
• General Sir Henry Charles Darling – 1833–1845
• Laurence Graeme – 1845–1851
• David Robert Ross – 16 April 1851 – 26 June 1851
• Henry Yates – 1851–1852 – (1st Time / Acting)
• Dominick Daly September 1851 – 1852 ^[5]
• Henry Yates – 1852 – February 1854 – (2nd Time / Acting)
• Willoughby J. Shortland – February 1854 – 1856
• James Kirk – 1856 – (Acting)
• James Henry Keens – 1856–1857 – (Acting)
• James Vickery Drysdale – June 1857 – April 1864
• Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright – October 1864 – 1872 ^[6]
• Herbert Taylor Ussher – 1872–1875
• Robert William Harley – 1875–1877 ^[7]
• Augustus Fredrick Gore – 1877–1880 ^[8]
• Edward Laborde – 1880–1882
• John Worrell Carrington – 1883–1884
• Loraine Geddes Hay – 1885
• Robert Baxter Llewellyn – 1885–1888
• Loraine Geddes Hay – 1888–1892
• Thomas Crossley Rayner – 1892
• William Low – 1892–1893
• Herbert H. Sealy – 1893 (acting)
• William Low – 1893–1897
• S. W. Snaggs – 1897 (acting)
• Joseph Clanfergael O'Halloran – 1897–1899

See also

• List of governors of Trinidad
• List of governors of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of governors-general of Trinidad and Tobago
• History of Tobago
• List of presidents of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago

References

1. "No. 13543". The London Gazette . 2 July 1793. p. 561.
2. "No. 13707". The London Gazette . 23 September 1794. p. 973.
3. "No. 18447". The London Gazette . 28 February 1828. p. 409.
4. "No. 18462". The London Gazette . 18 April 1828. p. 749.
5.  "Daly, Dominick". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
6. "No. 22902". The London Gazette . 14 October 1864. p. 4851.
7. "No. 24508". The London Gazette . 2 October 1877. p. 5455.
8. "No. 24508". The London Gazette . 2 October 1877. p. 5455.