List of governors of the Bahamas
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List of governors of the Bahamas

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#	Image	Governor	From	To

Governors of Eleuthera (1648–1657):

1	William Sayle	1648	1657

Proprietary Governors of the Bahama Islands (1670–1706):

2	Hugh Wentworth	1671	December 1671

3	John Wentworth	December 1671	1676

4	Charles Chillingworth	1676	1677

5	Roger Clarke	1680	1682

6	Richard Lilburne	1684	1684

British rule temporarily disrupted due to joint Spanish and French raid on Charlestown

7	Thomas Bridges	1686	1690

8	Cadwallader Jones	1690	1693

9	Nicholas Trott	1694	1696

10	Nicholas Webb	1697	1699

11	Read Elding (acting)	1699	1700

12	Elias Haskett	1700	1701

13	Ellis Lightfoot	1701	1703

14	Edward Birch	1704	1704

Privateer's Republic (1706–1718)

Royal Governors of the Bahama Islands (1718–1776)

15	-	Woodes Rogers	26 July 1718	1721

16	George Phenney	1721	1728

17	Woodes Rogers	August 1729	16 July 1732

Richard Fitzwilliam (acting)	1734	1738

18	John Tinker	1741	1758

John Gambier (acting)	1758	1760

20	William Shirley.JPG	William Shirley	1760	1775

22	Montfort Browne	1775	3 March 1776

Commandant of the Bahama Islands (during American occupation, 1776)

-	Samuel Nicholas	3 March 1776	17 March 1776

Royal Governors of the Bahama Islands (1776–1782)

John Gambier (acting)	1776	1778

23	John Robert Maxwell	1780	8 May 1782

Governors of Louisiana (during Spanish occupation)

1	-	Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez	8 May 1782	19 April 1783

Royal Governors of the Bahama Islands (1783–1969)

Andrew de Vau (acting)	1783	1783

23	John Robert Maxwell	1783	1784

24	James Edward Powell (Lieutenant-governor)	1784	1786

John Brown (acting)	1786	1787

25	-	The 4th Earl of Dunmore	1787	1796

Robert Hunt (acting)	1796	14 February 1797

26	John Forbes (Lieutenant-governor)	14 February 1797	June 1797

27	Lieutenant-General William Dowdeswell	20 November 1797	1801

28	John Halkett	1801	1804

28	Charles Cameron	8 May 1804	1820

30	Lewis Grant	1821	1829

31	-	Sir James Carmichael Smyth, 1st Baronet	1829	1833

32	Blayney Townley Balfour	1833	1835

33	William MacBean George Colebrooke	1835	1837

34	Sir Francis Cockburn	1837	1844

35	George Mathew	1844	1849

36	John Gregory	1849	1854

37	Sir Alexander Bannerman	1854	1857

38	Charles John Bayley	1857	1864

39	Rawson William Rawson	1864	1869

40	Sir James Walker	1869	1871

41	-	Sir George Cumine Strahan KCMG	1871	1873

42	-	Sir John Pope Hennessy KCMG	1873	1874

43	-	Sir William Robinson	1874	1880

44	Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan CMG	1880	1881

45	Sir Charles Cameron Lees KCMG	1882	January 1884

46	-	Sir Henry Arthur Blake GCMG, DL	4 January 1884	1887

47	-	Sir Ambrose Shea KCMG	1887	1895

48	Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith	1895	1898

49	-	Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter	1898	1904

50	Sir William Grey-Wilson	29 November 1904	1912

51	Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith	29 October 1912	1914

52	-	Sir William Lamond Allardyce KCMG	15 June 1914	1920

53	Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux KCMG, CB	8 December 1920	1926

54	Sir Charles William James Orr	15 March 1927	January 1932

55	-	Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford	10 January 1932	1934

Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas (acting)	1934	1940

56	-	HRH The Duke of Windsor	18 August 1940	16 March 1945

57	Sir William Lindsay Murphy	28 July 1945	1950

58	Sir George Ritchie Sandford	5 January 1950	December 1950

59	Sir Robert Arthur Ross Neville	7 December 1950	1953

60	The 6th Earl of Ranfurly	21 December 1953	1956

61	Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur	1 April 1957	1960

62	Sir Robert Stapledon	18 July 1960	1964

63	Sir Ralph Grey, GCMG, GCVO, OBE, GCSt.J. P.C	3 June 1964	1968

64	Sir Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, KCMG	1 November 1968	1969

Governors of the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands (1969–1973)

65	Sir Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce (succeeded as The 8th Baron Thurlow in 1971), KCMG	1969	1972

66	Sir John Warburton Paul GCMG, OBE, MC	14 May 1972	10 July 1973

On July 10, 1973 the Bahamas gained full independence from the United Kingdom and the viceroy became the Governor-General of the Bahamian Monarch.

Sentence(s)

Shirley was Governor of the Bahamas.
Shirley was commissioned as governor of the Bahamas.
Shirley was Governor of the Bahamas.

final_sentence: Shirley was Governor of the Bahamas.
final_sentence: Shirley was commissioned as governor of the Bahamas.
final_sentence: Shirley was Governor of the Bahamas.