Profiles of Governors

Proprietary Governors

• John Guy, 1610-1614
• John Mason, 1615-1621
• Robert Hayman, 1618-1628
• Sir Richard Whitbourne, 1618-1620
• Francis Tanfield, 1623-1625/1626
• Edward Wynne, 1621-1625
• Sir Arthur Aston, c. 1625-1627
• Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore), 1627-1629
• William Hill, 1634-1638
• Sir David Kirke, 1638-1651
• John Treworgie, 1653-1660

French Governors

• Sieur de Kéréon, 1655
• Nicolas Gargot, 1660
• Thalour du Perron, 1662-1663
• Bellot dit Lafontaine, 1664-1667
• La Palme, 1667-1670
• La Poippe, 1670-1684
• Antoine Parat, 1685-1690
• Louis de Pastour de Costebelle, 1690-1691
• Jacques-François de Mombeton de Brouillan,1690-1701
• Joseph de Monic, 1697-1702
• Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, 1702-1706
• Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle, 1706-1713

Naval Governors

• Henry Osborn, 1729-1730
• George Clinton, 1731
• Edward Falkingham, 1732
• Robert McCarthy Muskerry, 1733-1734
• Fitzroy Henry Lee, 1735-1737
• Philip Vanbrugh, 1738
• Henry Medley, 1739, 1740
• Thomas Smith, 1741, 1743
• John Byng, 1742
• Sir Charles Hardy, 1744
• Richard Edwards, 1746
• James Douglas, 1746
• Charles Watson, 1748
• George Brydges Rodney, 1749
• Francis William Drake, 1750-1752
• Hugh Bonfoy, 1753-1754
• Richard Dorill, 1755
• Richard Edwards, 1757-1759, 1779-1781
• James Webb, 1760
• 1st Baron Thomas Graves, 1761-1764
• Sir Hugh Palliser, 1764-1768
• John Byron, 1769-1771
• Molyneux Shuldham, 1772-1775
• Robert Duff, 1775
• John Montagu, 1776-1778
• John Campbell, 1782-1785
• John Elliott, 1786-1789
• Mark Milbanke, 1789-1791
• Sir Richard King, 1792-1793
• Sir James Wallace, 1794-1796
• William Waldegrave, 1797-1799
• Sir Charles Morice Pole, 1800-1801
• James Gambier, 1802-1804
• Sir Erasmus Gower, 1804-1806
• John Holloway, 1807-1809
• Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1810-1812
• Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, 1813-1816
• Francis Pickmore, 1816-1818
• Sir Charles Hamilton, 1818-1823

Civil Governors

• Sir Thomas John Cochrane, 1825-1834
• Sir Henry Prescott, 1834-1841
• Sir John Harvey, 1841-1846
• Sir John Gaspard LeMarchant, 1847-1852
• Ker Baillie Hamilton, 1852-1855

Colonial Governors

• Sir Charles Henry Darling, 1855-1857
• Sir Alexander Bannerman, 1857-1864
• Sir Anthony Musgrave, 1864-1869
• Sir Stephen John Hill, 1869-1876
• Sir John Hawley Glover, 1876-1881, 1883-1885
• Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse, 1881-1883
• Sir George William Des Voeux, 1886-1887
• Sir Henry Arthur Blake, 1887-1889
• Sir John Terence Nicholls O'Brien, 1889-1895
• Sir Herbert Harley Murray, 1895-1898
• Sir Henry Edward McCallum, 1899-1901
• Sir Charles Cavendish Boyle, 1901-1904
• Sir William MacGregor, 1904-1909
• Sir Ralph Champneys Williams, 1909-1913
• Sir Walter Edward Davidson, 1913-1917
• Sir Charles Alexander Harris, 1917-1922
• Sir William Lamond Allardyce, 1922-1928
• Sir John Middleton, 1928-1932

Commission Governors

• Sir David Murray Anderson, 1933-1935
• Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, 1936-1946
• Sir Gordon MacDonald, 1946-1949

Lieutenant Governors

• Sir Albert Joseph Walsh, 1949
• Sir Leonard Cecil Outerbridge, 1949-1957
• Hon. Campbell Leonard Macpherson, 1957-1963
• Hon. Fabian O'Dea, 1963-1969
• Hon. Ewart John Arlington Harnum, 1969-1974
• Hon. Gordon Arnaud Winter, 1974-1981
• Hon. William Anthony Paddon, 1981-1986
• Hon. James Aloysius McGrath, 1986-1991
• Hon. Frederick William Russell, 1991-1997
• Hon. Arthur Maxwell House, 1997-2002
• Hon. Edward Moxon Roberts, 2002-2008
• Hon. John C. Crosbie, 2008-2013
• Hon. Frank F. Fagan, 2013-2018
• Hon. Judy May Foote, 2018-2023
• Hon. Joan Marie Aylward, 2023-