This is a list of governors of the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the ar ...
. The first English settlement in the Bahamas was on
Eleuthera
Eleuthera () refers both to a single island in the archipelagic state of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas and to its associated group of smaller islands. Eleuthera forms a part of the Great Bahama Bank. The island of Eleuthera incorporates the ...
. In 1670, the king granted the Bahamas to the
lords proprietors
A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century. The plural of the term is "lords proprietors" or "lords proprietary".
Origin
In the beginning of the European ...
of the
Province of Carolina, but the islands were left to themselves. The local pirates proclaimed a '
Privateers' Republic' with
Edward Teach (''Blackbeard'') as chief magistrate in 1703. In 1717, the Bahamas became a British crown colony, and the pirates were driven out.
During the
American War of Independence, the Bahamas were briefly occupied by both American and Spanish forces. In 1964, the Bahamas achieved self-governance, and, in 1973, full independence.
List
See also
1. Biography of John Gregory
References
External links
* http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html
{{British dependencies governors
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the ar ...