List of colonial governors in 1758
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France
- GrenadaGrenadaGrenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...
- Pierre-Claude Bonvoust d'Aulnay de Prulay, Governor of Grenada (1757-1762) - GuadeloupeGuadeloupeGuadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...
- Charles François Emmanuel Nadau du Treil, Governor of Guadeloupe (1757-1759)
Great Britain
- BermudaBermudaBermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
- William Popple, Governor of BermudaGovernor of BermudaThe Governor of Bermuda is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government...
(1755-1763) - GibraltarGibraltarGibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...
- The Earl of HomeWilliam Home, 8th Earl of HomeLieutenant General Sir William Home, 8th Earl of Home was the eighth holder of the title of Earl of Home.-Military career:...
, Governor of Gibraltar (1757-1761)
Netherlands
- ArubaArubaAruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...
- Jan van der Biest, Commander of Aruba (1756-1768) - Ceylon - Jan Schreuder, Governor of Ceylon (1757-1762)
- Dutch East IndiesDutch East IndiesThe Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....
- Jacob MosselJacob MosselJacob Mossel went from being a common sailor to become Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1750 to 1761....
, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1750-1761)
Portugal
- AngolaAngolaAngola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
-- António Álvares da Cunha, Governor of Angola (1753-1758)
- António de Vasconcelos, Governor of Angola (1758-1764)
- MacauMacauMacau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
-- Francisco Antonio Pereira Coutinho, Governor of MacauGovernor of MacauThe Governor of Macau was a Portuguese colonial official who headed the colony of Macau, before 1623 called Captain-major . The post was replaced on December 20, 1999 upon the transfer of administration to the People's Republic of China by the office of the Chief Executive of the Macau Special...
(1755-1758) - D. Diogo Pereira, Governor of Macau (1758-1761)
- Francisco Antonio Pereira Coutinho, Governor of Macau
Spain
- New SpainNew SpainNew Spain, formally called the Viceroyalty of New Spain , was a viceroyalty of the Spanish colonial empire, comprising primarily territories in what was known then as 'América Septentrional' or North America. Its capital was Mexico City, formerly Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire...
- Agustín de Ahumada, Viceroy of New Spain (1755-1760)