List of speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas

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The first Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas was done in the year 1729 following the establishment of the General Assembly, started by Woodes Roger. The first Speaker was John Colebrooke. [1]

List of speakers

NameTook officeLeft office
John Colebrooke29 September 172921 August 1734
James Scott21 August 17341743
Florentius Cox174323 February 1749
John Mackintosh23 February 17499 November 1750
James Stowe9 November 17509 January 1753
Samuel Green9 January 175327 August 1753
Charles Marshall27 August 17531760
Esward Stiles176011 February 1760
Daniel Larouch11 February 176018 March 1762
James Gould18 March 17628 July 1766
Ebenezer Love8 July 17661 December 1766
Robert Sterling1 December 176610 November 1768
George Fraser10 November 176813 December 1768
Robert Sterling13 December 17687 April 1772
Nicholas Garner7 April 177217 December 1776
Parr Ross17 December 177612 February 1782
Nicholas Garner12 February 178220 April 1784
John Boyd20 April 17841 February 1785
Thomas Roker1 February 178519 September 1794
John Kelsall19 September 17946 October 1795
Thomas Roker6 October 17957 November 1797
Archibald Campbell7 November 179730 October 1798
Alexander Campbell Wylly30 October 179817 November 1800
James Webster17 November 18006 October 1801
Alexander Campbell Wylly6 October 180116 March 1802
James Webster16 March 180222 October 1811
William Kerr22 October 18113 November 1812
Alexander Young 3 November 18123 November 1813
James Webster 3 November 18135 November 1816
Lewis Kerr 5 November 181610 December 1828
Thomas Browne Wylly 10 December 182831 May 1831
George Campbell Anderson 31 May 18316 June 1838
John Gray Meadows 6 June 18386 June 1839
George Campbell Anderson 6 June 18396 November 1866
Bruce Burnside 6 November 186614 February 1867
George Campbell Anderson 14 February 186724 June 1868
Ormond Drimmie Malcolm 24 June 186815 December 1897
Robert Henry Sawyer 15 December 189730 May 1898
Francis Abraham Holmes 30 May 189817 December 1913
Harcourt Gladstone Malcolm 2 February 191426 December 1936
William Christopher Barnett Johnson 29 December 19361 September 1942
Audrey Kenneth Solomon 1 September 19424 November 1946
Asa Hubert Pritchard 4 November 19466 December 1962
Robert Symonette 6 December 19629 February 1967
Alvin Rudolph Braynen 9 February 196718 October 1972
Arlington Butler 18 October 197220 October 1977
Clifford Darling 20 October 197714 November 1991
Milo Butler Jr. 14 November 19912 September 1992
Vernon Symonette 2 September 19929 April 1997
Rome Italia Johnson 9 April 199722 May 2002
Oswald Ingraham 22 May 200223 May 2007
Alvin Smith 23 May 200723 May 2012
Kendal Major 23 May 201224 May 2017
Halson Moultrie 24 May 2017September 2021
Patricia Deveaux 6 October 2021Incumbent

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References

  1. Dwight C. Hart (2004) The Bahamian Parliament, 1729-2004: Commemorating the 275th anniversary, Jones Publishing, p118
  2. Hart (1729–2002 period)
  3. "The Bahamas reference annual". 1985.