List of colonial governors and administrators of Saint Lucia

This is a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia from the first French settlement in 1650, until the island gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1979.

Governors of the French colony of Sainte Lucie, 1762–1802

George Brydges Rodney 1762–1763 (British occupation)
Pierre Lucien de La Chapelle de Jumilhac 1763–1764
Claude Anne de Micoud 1764–1771
Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1771–1772 (first time)
Frédéric Laure de Kearney 1772–1773
Alexandre Potier de Courcy 1773–1776
Marc Étienne de Joubert 1776–1778
Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1778–1781 (second time)
Anthony St Leger 1781–1783 (British occupation)
Jean Zénon André de Véron de Laborie 1784–1789
Jean-Joseph Sourbader de Gimat 1789–1792
Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse 1792 - 1793
Nicolas Xavier de Ricard 1793–1794
Sir Charles Gordon 1794–1795 (British occupation)
James Stewart 1795 (British occupation)
Gaspard Goyrand 1795–1796 (Commissioner)
John Moore 1796–1797 (British occupation)
James Drummond 1797–1798 (British occupation)
George Prevost 1798–1802 (British occupation)
George Henry Vansittart 1802 (British occupation)
Jean François Xavier Nogues 1802–1803

Governors of the British colony of Saint Lucia 1802–1834

Robert Brereton 1803–1807
Alexander Wood 1807–1814
Francis Delaval 1814–1815
Edward Stehelin 1815–1816
Robert Douglas 1816
Richard Augustus Seymour 1816–1817
Edward O'Hara 1817–1818
John Keane 1818–1819
John Joseph Winkler 1819–1821
John Montagu Mainwaring 1821–1824 (first time)
Nathaniel Shepherd Blackwell 1824–1826
John Montagu Mainwaring 1826–1827 (second time)
Lorenzo Moore 1827–1829
David Stewart 1829
Francis Power 1829–1830
James Alexander Farquharson 1830–1831 (first time)
George Mackie 1831
Mark Anthony Bozon 1831–1832
James Alexander Farquharson 1832–1834 (second time)

Lieutenant-Governors of Saint Lucia, 1834–1857

Subordinate to the Governor of the British Windward Islands:

Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill 1834–1837
Thomas Bunbury 1837–1838
John Alexander Mein 1838–1839
Mathias Everard 1839–1841
George Graydon 1841–1843
Andrew Clarke 1843–1844
Arthur Wellesley Torrens 1844–1848
Sir Charles Henry Darling 1848–1852
Henry Clermont Cobbe 1852
Maurice Power 1852–1857

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1857–1889

Henry Heggart Breen 1857–1862
James Mayer Grant 1862–1869
Sir William Des Vœux 1869–1878
Arthur Elibank Havelock 1878–1879
Sir Roger Goldsworthy 1881–1884
Edward Laborde 1885–1889

Commissioners of Saint Lucia 1889–1958

Robert Baxter Llewelyn 1889–1891
Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury 1891–1896
Charles Anthony King-Harman 1896–1899
Sir Harry Langhorne Thompson 1900–1902
Sir George Melville 1902–1905
Philip Clark Cork 1905–1909
Edward John Cameron 1909–1914
William Douglas Young 1914–1915
Gideon Oliphant-Murray 1915–1918
Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston 1918–1927
Charles William Doorly 1927–1935
Edward William Baynes 1935–1938
Arthur Alban Wright 1938–1944
Edward Francis Twining 1944–1946
John Montague Stow 1947–1953
John Kingsmill Thorp 1953–1958

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1958–1967

After incorporation into the Federation of the West Indies:

Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1958–1962
Gerald Jackson Bryan 1962–1967

Governors of Saint Lucia 1967–1979

On 27 February 1967, Saint Lucia became an associated state of the United Kingdom, responsible for its own internal affairs.

Sir Frederick Clarke 1967–1971
Sir Ira Marcus Simmons 1971–1974
Sir Allen Lewis 1974–1979

On 22 February, 1979, Saint Lucia achieved independence from the United Kingdom. For a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia after independence, see Governor-General of Saint Lucia.

References