List of Governors, Deputy Governors, Residents, Lieutenant-Governor of the
Presidency and Residency versions of
British Bencoolen
British Bencoolen was a possession of the British East India Company (EIC) extending about 300 miles along the southwestern coast of Sumatra and centered on the area of what is now Bengkulu City. The EIC established a presence there in 1685, and ...
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List
This is a list, source from worldstatesmen.org
Deputy Governors
Subordinated to
Madras Presidency
The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the ...
* 1685:
Ralph Ord
* 1685 - 1690: Benjamin Bloom
* 1690 - 1691:
James Sowdon
* 1691 - 1695: Charles Fleetwood
* 1695 - 1696:
Charles Barwell
* 1696 - 1699:
Matthew Mildmay
* 1699 - 1700: Robert Broughton
* 1700 - 17 Dec 1705: Richard Watts
* 1705 - 1708: Matthew Ridley
* 1708: James Cross
* 1708:
Abraham Hoyle
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* 1708:
John Delapie
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* 1708 - 1710:
Robert Skingle
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* 1710:
Jeremiah Harrison
Jeremiah, Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian: ; el, Ἰερεμίας, Ieremíās; meaning "Yahweh, Yah shall raise" (c. 650 – c. 570 BC), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major proph ...
(Supervisor)
* 1710 - 1711:
Anthony Ettricke
* 1711 - 1712: John Daniell
* 1712 John Hunter
* 1712 - 1716:
Joseph Collett
Joseph Collett (1673–1725) was a British administrator in the service of the British East India Company. He served as the deputy-governor of Bencoolen from 1712 to 1717 and as governor of the Madras Presidency from 1717 to 1720. He re-built ...
- On 1 September 1712, Collett arrived at York Fort in
Bencoolen in Sumatra and was subsequently appointed Governor.
* 1716 - 1717:
Theophilus Shyllinge
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* 1717 - 1718:
Richard Farmer
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* 1718 - 1719: Thomas Cooke (Supervisor)
* 1719 - 1723:
Isaac Pyke
* 1723:
Thomas Dunster
* 1723 - 1728: Joseph Walsh
* 1728 - 1730:
Nicholas Morse
Nicholas Morse (died 28 May 1772) the great-grandson of the British statesman and revolutionary Oliver Cromwell and served as the last President of Madras before the Battle of Madras and the French occupation of Fort St George and its surrounding ...
* 1730 - 1731:
Stephen Newcome
* 1731 - 1736:
Francis Everest
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* 1736 - 1746: Robert Lennox
* 1746 - 1752:
Joseph Hurlock
Joseph Hurlock (c.1715 – 1793) was a director of the East India Company.
Life
Hurlock became a writer for British Bencoolen on 23 October 1730. One of his sureties with the East India Company was Joseph Hurlock the London surgeon, and Shirren t ...
* 1752 - 1754:
Robert Hindley
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* 1754 - 1755: John Walsh (Supervisor)
* 1755 : John Pybus
* 1755 - 1756: Thomas Combes
* 1757 - 1758:
Randolph Marriott Randolph may refer to:
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* 1758 - 2 April 1760:
Roger Carter
* 2 Apr 1760 - 1760:
Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing
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(French Commander)
Governors of Bencoolen Presidency
*Feb 1762 - Jul 1762:
Samuel Ardley
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...
(acting)
*1760 - 1767: Roger Carter
*1767 - 1776:
Richard Wyatt
*1776:
Robert Hay
*1776 - 1780:
William Broff
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*1780 - 1781:
Hew Steuart
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*1781 - 1785:
Edward Coles
In 1785, Bencoolen became a Residency, within the
Bengal Presidency
Deputy Governors of Bencoolen
*1785 - 1786: John Crisp (1st time)
*1786 - 1787: Thomas Palmer
*1787 - 1789: George Salmon (Supervisor)
*1789 - 1793: John Crisp (2nd time)
*1793 - 1799:
Robert Broff
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, ho ...
*1799: John Crisp (3rd time)
*1799 - 1800: Philip Braham (acting)
*1800 - 1805:
Walter Ewer
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* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968)
* Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born ...
Residents of Bencoolen
*April 1805 - 23 Decemnber 1807: Thomas Parr
*1808 - 1810: Richard Parry
*1810 - 1812: William Parker
*1812 - 22 Mar 1818:
George John Siddons
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Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen
*1818 - 1824:
Stamford Raffles - who enacted
major reforms, including the abolishment of slavery, as well as founding of
Singapore.
Resident of Bencoolen
*1824 - 1 Mar 1825: John Prince
References
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External links
* http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Indonesia.htm#Bencoolen
Bencoolen