List of colonial governors in 1816

List of colonial governors in 1815  · Events of 1816  · List of colonial governors in 1817  · Colonial governors by year

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See also:

• List of state leaders in 1816
• List of religious leaders in 1816

Denmark

• Danish Gold Coast - Christian Schiønning, Governor of the Danish Gold Coast (1807-1817)
• Danish West Indies -
  1. Peter Lotharius von Oxholm, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (1815-1816)
  2. Johan Henrik von Stabel, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (1816)
  3. Adrian Benjamin Bentzon, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (1816-1820)
• Iceland - Johan Carl Thuerecht Castenschiold, Governor of Iceland (1813-1819)
• North Greenland - Peter Hanning Motzfeldt, Inspector of North Greenland (1803-1817)
• South Greenland - Marcus Nissen Myhlenphort, Inspector of South Greenland (1802-1821)

France

• French Guiana - under Portuguese rule (1809-1817)
• Guadeloupe -
  1. Occupied by British 10 Aug 1815 - 25 Jul 1816
  2. Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy, Governor of Guadeloupe (1816-1823)
• Martinique - Pierre-René-Marie, comte de Vaugiraud, Governor of Martinique (1814-1818)
• Réunion - Athanase Hyacinthe Bouvet de Lozier, Governor of Réunion (1815-1817)

Netherlands

• Aruba -
  1. Occupied by British (1805-1816)
  2. Lodewijk Christoph Boyé, Commander of Aruba (1816-1819)
• Dutch Gold Coast - Abraham de Veer, Commandant-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (1810-Mar. 1, 1816); Herman Willem Daenels, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (to 1818)
• Dutch Guiana -
  1. Occupied by British (1804-1816)
  2. Willem Benjamin van Panhuys, Governor-General of Dutch Guiana, (1816)
  3. Cornelis Reinhard Vaillant, Acting Governor-General of Dutch Guiana, (1816-1822)

Portugal

• Angola -
  1. José de Oliveira Barbosa, Governor of Angola (1810-1816)
  2. Luís da Mota Fêo e Torres, Governor of Angola (1816-1819)
• Cape Verde - António Coutinho de Lencastre, Governor of Cape Verde (1803-1818)
• Bissau - António Cardoso Figueiredo, Captain-Major of Bissau
• Cacheu - Unknown
• East Timor - José Pinto Alcoforado de Azevedo e Sousa, Governor of East Timor (1815-1819)
• French Guiana - João Severiano Maciel da Costa, Governor of French Guiana (1809-1817); also technically owned by Spain
• Macau - Lucas José de Alvarenga, Governor of Macau (1814-1817)
• Mozambique - Marcos Caetano de Abreu e Meneses, Captain-General of Mozambique (1812-1817)

Spanish Empire

• Viceroyalty of New Granada - Francisco Montalvo y Ambulodi Arriola y Casabant Valdespino, Viceroy of New Granada (1816–1818)
• Viceroyalty of New Spain -
  1. Félix María Calleja del Rey, conde de Calderón, Viceroy of New Spain (1813–1816)
  2. Juan Ruíz de Apodaca, conde de Venadito, Viceroy of New Spain (1816–1821)
  • Captaincy General of Cuba -
    1. Juan Ruíz de Apodaca, Governor of Cuba (1812–1816)
    2. José Cienfuegos, Governor of Cuba (1816–1819)
  • Spanish East Indies -
    1. José de Gardoqui Jaraveita, Governor-General of the Philippines (1813–1816)
    2. Mariano Fernández de Folgueras, Governor-General of the Philippines (1816–1822)
  • Captaincy General of Santo Domingo - Carlos de Urrutia y Montoya, Governor of Santo Domingo (1813–1819)
• Viceroyalty of Peru -
  1. José Fernando Abascal y Sousa, marqués de la Concordia, Viceroy of Peru (1806–1816)
  2. Joaquín de la Pezuela y Sánchez, marqués de Viluma, Viceroy of Peru (1816–1821)
  • Captaincy General of Chile - Francisco Casimiro Marcó del Ponte Angel-Díaz y Méndez, Governor and Captain-General of Chile (1815–1818)

Sweden

• Saint-Barthélemy -
  1. Bernt Robert Gustaf Stackelberg, Governor of Saint-Barthélemy (1812-1816)
  2. Johan Samuel Rosensvärd, Governor of Saint-Barthélemy (1816-1818)

United Kingdom

• Alderney - John Le Mesurier III, Governor of Alderney (1803-1825), Pierre Gauvin, Judge of Alderney (1807-1836)
  • Sark - Pierre Le Pelley II, Seigneur of Sark (1778-1820)
• Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat -
  1. Part of Leeward Islands
  2. George William Ramsay, Governor of Antigua (1816-1819)
• Assiniboia -
  1. Colin Robertson, Governor of Assiniboia (1815-1816)
  2. Robert Semple, Governor of Assiniboia (1816)
  3. Alexander MacDonell, Governor of Assiniboia (1816-1822)
• Australia - see New South Wales
• The Bahamas - Charles Cameron, Governor of the Bahamas (1804-1820)
• Barbados - Sir James Leith, Governor of Barbados (1815-1816)
• Berbice - Henry William Bentinck, Lieutenant Governor of Berbice (1814-1820)
• Bermuda - Sir James Cockburn, Governor of Bermuda (1811-1819)
• British Columbia - John Haldane, Governor of British Columbia (1813-1823)
• British North America -
  1. vacant (1815-1816)
  2. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor General of British North America (1816–1818)
  • Cape Breton Island -
    1. Hugh Swayne, Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton Island (1813-1816)
    2. George Robert Ainslie, Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton Island (1816-1820)
  • Lower Canada -
    1. Sir Gordon Drummond, Acting Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada (1815-1816)
    2. John Wilson, Acting Governor of Lower Canada (1816)
    3. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor of Lower Canada (1816-1818)
  • New Brunswick -
    • Lieutenant Governor - Thomas Carleton, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1786-1817)
    • Administrator (acting for Carleton) -
      1. George Stracey Smith - Administrator of New Brunswick (1814-1816)
      2. Harris Hailes - Administrator of New Brunswick (1816-1817, Lieutenant Governor 1817-1823)
  • Nova Scotia -
    1. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor of Nova Scotia (1811-1816)
    2. George Stracey Smyth, Acting Governor of Nova Scotia (1816)
    3. George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, Governor of Nova Scotia (1816-1820)
  • Prince Edward Island - Charles Douglass Smith, Governor of Prince Edward Island (1812-1824)
  • Upper Canada - Francis Gore, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (1815-1817)
• Cayman Islands - William Bodden, Chief Magistrate of the Cayman Islands (1776-1823)
• Ceylon - Robert Brownrigg, Governor of Ceylon (1812-1820)
• Demerara-Essequibo - John Murray , Lieutenant-Governor of Demerara-Essequibo (1813-1824)
• Dominica - Charles William Maxwell, Governor of Dominica (1816-1819)
• The Gambia - Alexander Grant, Commandant of The Gambia (1815-1829)
• Gibraltar - Sir George Don, Governor of Gibraltar (1814-1821)
• Gold Coast - Edward White, Governor of the Committee of Merchants (1807-Apr. 21, 1816); Joseph Dawson (to 1817)
• Grenada - George Paterson, Acting Lieutenant Governor of Grenada (1815-1816); Phineas Riall, Lieutenant Governor of Grenada (to 1823), Peter de Havilland, Bailiff of Grenada (1810-1821)
• Guadeloupe -
  1. Sir James Leith, Governor of Guadeloupe (1815-1816)
  2. Returned to France
• Guernsey - George Pembroke, Earl of Pembroke, Governor of Guernsey (1807-1827)
• Heligoland - Charles Hamilton, Lieutenant Governor of Heligoland (1814-1817)
• Ionian Islands - Sir Thomas Maitland, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands (1815-1823); de facto protectorate
• India - Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira, Governor-General of India (1813-1823)
• Jamaica - William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester, Governor of Jamaica (1813-1821)
  • Belize - Sir George Arthur, Superintendent of Belize (1814-1822)
  • Cayman Islands - William Bodden, Chief Magistrate of the Cayman Islands (1776-1823)
• Leeward Islands -
  1. Sir James Leith, Governor of the Leeward Islands (1814-1816)
  2. Leeward Islands colony divided in 1816:
  • Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat colony
  • St. Christopher, Nevis, and Anguilla plus British Virgin Islands as a new colony
• Malta - Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Malta (1813-1824)
• Mauritius - Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, Governor of Mauritius (1810-1823)
• New South Wales - Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales (1810-1821)
  • Van Diemen's Land - Thomas Davey, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1813-1817)
• Newfoundland -
  1. Sir Richard Godwin Keats, Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1813-1816)
  2. Francis Pickmore, Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1816-1818)
• Rupert's Land -
  1. Robert Semple, Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land (1815-1816)
  2. James Curtis Bird, Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land (1816-1818)
• St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla-British Virgin Islands
  1. Part of Leeward Islands
  2. Stedman Rawlins, Governor (1816)
  3. Thomas Probyn, Governor(1816-1821)
• St. Lucia -
  1. Edward Stehelin, Governor of St. Lucia (1815-1816)
  2. Robert Douglas, Governor of St. Lucia (1816)
  3. Richard Augustus Seymour, Governor of St. Lucia (1816-1817)
• St. Vincent - Charles Brisbane, Governor of St. Vincent (1808-1829)
• Tobago -
  1. John Balfour, Acting Governor of Tobago (1815-1816)
  2. Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, Governor of Tobago (1816-1827)
• Trinidad - Sir Ralph James Woodford, Governor of Trinidad (1813-1828)