# List of governors of Trinidad

This article lists governors of Trinidad.

## Spanish governors (1506–1797)

* Diego Colón – 1506 – 1526
* Rodrigo de Bastidas – 1520
* Don Antonio Sedeño – July 12, 1530 – 1538
* Don Juan Ponce de León II 1571 – 1591
* Antonio de Berrío 1580 – 1597
* Fernando de Berrío 1597 – 1612
* Don Diego Palomeque de Acuña 1615 – 1618
* Fernando de Berrío 1619 – 1622
* Don Luis de Monsalves 1624 – 1631
* Cristóval de Aranda 1631 – 1636
* Diego López de Escobar 1636 – 1641
* Don Martín de Mendoza y Berrío 1642 – 1657
* Juan de Viedma 1657 – 1664
* José de Aspe y Zuñiga 1665 – 1668
* Diego Ximenes de Aldana 1670 – 1677
* Tiburcio de Aspe y Zúñiga 1678 – 1682
* Diego Suárez Ponce de León 1682 – 1688
* Sebastian de Roseta 1688 – 1690
* Francisco de Ménez 1692 – 1698
* José de León Echales 1699
* Francisco Ruíz de Aguirre 1700 – 1705
* Felipe de Artineda 1705 – 1711
* Cristóbal Félix de Guzmán 1711 – 1716
* Pedro de Yarza 1716 – 1721
* Juan de Orvay (acting) 1721
* Martín Pérez de Anda y Salazar 1721 – 1726
* Agustín de Arredonda 1726 – 1731
* Bartholomé de Aldunate y Rada 1731 – 1732
* Estevan Simón de Linán y Vera 1734 – 1746
* Juan José Salcedo 1746 – 1752
* Francisco Nanclares 1752 – 1757
* Pedro de La Moneda 1757 – 1760
* Jacinto San Juan 1760 – 1762
* José Antonio Gil 1762 – 1766
* José de Flores 1766 – 1773
* Juan de Dios Valdés y Yarza 1773 – 1776
* Don Manuel Falques 1776 – 1779 – Military Governor
* Martín de Salaverría 1779 – 1783 – Civil Governor
* Juan Francisco Machado 1781 – 1784
* José María Chacón 1784 – 1797

## British governors (1797–1889)

* Sir Ralph Abercromby – 18 February 1797 – February 1797
* Thomas Picton Feb 1797 – Feb 1803 (military governor to 1801)
* Commission (William Fullarton, Samuel Hood, Thomas Picton) – February 1803 – July 1804
* Sir Thomas Hislop – July 1804 – 27 September 1811
* Hector William Munro – 27 September 1811 – 14 June 1813
* Sir Ralph Woodford – 14 June 1813 – January 1828
* Henry Capadose (acting) – January 1828 – April 1828
* Charles Felix Smith – April 1828 – 10 March 1829
* Lewis Grant – 10 March 1829 – 22 April 1833
* Sir George Hill – 22 April 1833 – 9 March 1839
* John Alexander Mein (acting) – 9 March 1839 – April 1840
* Henry George Macleod – April 1840 – 1846
* George Francis Robert Harris, 3rd Baron Harris – 1846 – 1854
* Legendre Charles Bourchier (acting) – 1854
* Sir Charles Elliot – 10 March 1854 – 1856
* B. Brooks (acting) – 1856 – 1857
* Robert William Keate – 26 January 1857 – 1864
* ? Thompson (acting) -1864
* Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton – 6 September 1864 – 1866
* Edward Everard Rushworth (acting) – 1866
* Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon – 7 November 1866 – 1870
* James Robert Longden – 25 June 1870 – 1874
* William Wellington Cairns – 2 May 1874 – 1874
* John Scott Bushe (1st time) (acting) – 1874
* Henry Turner Irving (1st time) – 20 November 1874 – 1876
* John Scott Bushe (2nd time) (acting) – 1876 – 1877
* William Des Vœux (acting) – 1877 – 1878
* Henry Turner Irving (2nd time) – 1878 – 1880
* William Rowland Pyne (acting) – 1880
* William Alexander George Young (acting) – 1880
* Sir Sanford Freeling – 2 November 1880 – 1884
* John Scott Bushe (3rd time) (acting) – 1884
* Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee (acting) – 19 June 1884 – 8 August 1884
* John Scott Bushe (4th time) (acting) – 1884 – 1885
* Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock – 24 January 1885 – 1885
* David Wilson (acting) 1885
* Sir William Robinson – 9 October 1885 – 1889 (continued as Governor of Trinidad and Tobago until 1891)