List of governors of the Bahamas
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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[1]

-

John Gambier
(acting)
1758
1760

20

William Shirley
1760[2]
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.

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