This article lists governors of

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. Governors of Tobago have been referred to by the formal titles of "Governor" and "Lieutenant-Governor". For governors of the united Trinidad and Tobago after 1889 see

List of Governors of Trinidad and Tobago This article lists governors of Trinidad and Tobago. Governors of Trinidad and Tobago 1889–1962 See also * List of governors of Trinidad *List of governors of Tobago *List of heads of state of Trinidad and Tobago * List of prime minist ...

Lieutenant governors of British Tobago (1764–1781)

* Alexander Brown (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 12 November 1764 – July 1766 * William Hill – 2 December 1766 – 16 October 1767 * Roderick Gwynne – 16 October 1767 – 1769 * Robert William Stewart – 1769–1771 * William Young (Lt. Governor of Tobago) of Auchenskeoch Castle (Scotland) – 1771–1777 * Peter Campbell (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1777–1779 * John Graham (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1779–1781 *

George Ferguson (Lt Governor of Tobago) George Ferguson (1748 – 29 December 1820) was the fourth Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, that became known as The Blenheim of the North. He lived much of his life in Tobago and became lieuten ...

– 1781 – 2 June 1781

Governors of French Tobago (1781–1793)

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– 2 June 1781 – 1784 * Rene Maria viconte d'Arrot – 1784–1786 * Arthur Dillon – 1786–1789 * Antoine de Jobal de Poigny – 1789–1792 * Philippe Marie de Marguenat – 1792–1793 * Laroque de Mointeil – 1793

Governors of British Tobago (1793–1899)

* William Myers – April 1793 *

George Poyntz Ricketts George Poyntz Ricketts (1749 – 8 April 1800) was a Jamaican-born English plantation owner who became Governor of Tobago and Governor of Barbados. He was born the son of Jacob Ricketts and Hannah Poyntz on the Midgham plantation, Jamaica (named af ...

– 1793–1795 * ''

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'' – 1795 (acting) * William Lindsay – 1795–1796 * James Campbell – 1796–1797 *

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'' - 1801 – 7 November 1802 (acting) *

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– 7 November 1802 – 1803 *

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– 1803 *

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– 30 June 1803 – July 1803 * William Johnstone – July 1803 – August 1803 * Donald MacDonald – August 1803 – July 1804 * John Halkett – July 1804 – 1807 *

Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet, FRS, FSA (December 1749 – 10 January 1815) was a British colonial governor, politician and owner of sugar plantations which, in 1788, included 896 enslaved Africans.E. I. Carlyle, 'Young, Sir William, second ba ...

– 1807–1815 * John Balfour – 1815–1816 * John Campbell – 1816 * Sir

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– November 1816 * Sir Colin Campbell - February 1828 - April 1828 *

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– April 1828 – 1833 * Alexander Gardner – 1833 – (Acting) * General

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– 1833 * General Sir Henry Charles Darling – 1833–1845 *

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– 1845–1851 *

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– 16 April 1851 – 26 June 1851 * '' Henry Yates'' – 1851–1852 – (1st Time / Acting) *

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September 1851 – 1852 * '' Henry Yates'' – 1852 – February 1854 – (2nd Time / Acting) *

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– February 1854 – 1856 * ''James Kirk'' – 1856 – (Acting) * James Henry Keens – 1856–1857 – (Acting) *

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– June 1857 – April 1864 *

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– October 1864 – 1872 *

Herbert Taylor Ussher Herbert Taylor John Ussher (22 April 1836 – 2 December 1880) was a British colonial administrator who became Governor of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). In private life, he was a keen naturalist and wrote ''"Notes on the ornithology of the Gold Coas ...

– 1872–1875 *

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– 1875–1877 * Augustus Fredrick Gore – 1877–1880 * Edward Laborde – 1880–1882 *

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– 1883–1884 *

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– 1885 * Robert Baxter Llewellyn – 1885–1888 *

– 1888–1892 *

Thomas Crossley Rayner Sir Thomas Crossley Rayner (19 April 1860 – 22 May 1914) was a British colonial judge who became Chief Justice of British Guiana. Early life He was born the only son of Thomas Rayner, MD of Manchester, England and matriculated from Owen's Colleg ...

– 1892 * William Low – 1892–1893 * ''Herbert H. Sealy'' – 1893 (acting) * William Low – 1893–1897 * '' S. W. Snaggs'' – 1897 (acting) * Joseph Clanfergael O'Halloran – 1897–1899

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