List of colonial governors in 1816
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Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

  • Danish Gold Coast
    Danish Gold Coast
    The Danish Gold Coast was a part of the Gold Coast , which is on the West African Gulf of Guinea...

     - Christian Schiønning
    Christian Schiønning
    Christian Schiønning was a governor of the Danish Gold Coast, a Danish Crown Colony. He governed from the colony's capital, Fort Christiansborg.-Schiønning as governor:...

    , Governor of the Danish Gold Coast (1807-1817)
  • Danish West Indies
    Danish West Indies
    The Danish West Indies or "Danish Antilles", were a colony of Denmark-Norway and later Denmark in the Caribbean. They were sold to the United States in 1916 in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies and became the United States Virgin Islands in 1917...

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    1. Peter Lotharius von Oxholm, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (1815-1816)
    2. Johan Henrik von Stabel, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (1816)
    3. Adrian Benjamin Bentzon, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (1816-1820)
  • Iceland
    Iceland
    Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

     - Johan Carl Thuerecht Castenschiold, Governor of Iceland (1813-1819)
  • North Greenland
    Greenland
    Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

     - Peter Hanning Motzfeldt, Inspector of North Greenland (1803-1817)
  • South Greenland
    Greenland
    Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

     - Marcus Nissen Myhlenphort, Inspector of South Greenland (1802-1821)

France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  • French Guiana
    French Guiana
    French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...

     - under Portuguese rule (1809-1817)
  • Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe 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...

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    1. Occupied by British 10 Aug 1815 - 25 Jul 1816
    2. Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy, Governor of Guadeloupe (1816-1823)
  • Martinique
    Martinique
    Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...

     - Pierre-René-Marie, comte de Vaugiraud, Governor of Martinique (1814-1818)
  • Réunion
    Réunion
    Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...

     - Athanase Hyacinthe Bouvet de Lozier, Governor of Réunion (1815-1817)

Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

  • Aruba
    Aruba
    Aruba 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...

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    1. Occupied by British (1805-1816)
    2. Lodewijk Christoph Boyé, Commander of Aruba (1816-1819)
  • Dutch Gold Coast
    Dutch Gold Coast
    The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea was a portion of coastal West Africa that was gradually colonized by the Dutch, beginning in 1598...

     - Abraham de Veer, Commandant-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (1810-Mar. 1, 1816); Herman Willem Daenels, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (to 1818)
  • Dutch Guiana
    Dutch Guiana
    Dutch Guiana, also known as Netherlands Guyana or Dutch Guyana , is the name given to various Dutch colonies on the northern coast of South America, created by the Dutch West India Company...

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    1. Occupied by British (1804-1816)
    2. Willem Benjamin van Panhuys, Governor-General of Dutch Guiana, (1816)
    3. Cornelis Reinhard Vaillant, Acting Governor-General of Dutch Guiana, (1816-1822)

Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

  • Angola
    Angola
    Angola, 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...

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    1. José de Oliveira Barbosa, Governor of Angola (1810-1816)
    2. Luís da Mota Fêo e Torres, Governor of Angola (1816-1819)
  • Cape Verde
    Cape Verde
    The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

     - António Coutinho de Lencastre, Governor of Cape Verde (1803-1818)
  • Bissau
    Bissau
    Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. The city's borders are conterminous with the Bissau Autonomous Sector. In 2007, the city had an estimated population of 407,424 according to the Instituto Nacional de Estatística e Censos...

     - António Cardoso Figueiredo, Captain-Major of Bissau
  • Cacheu
    Cacheu
    Cacheu is a town in north western Guinea-Bissau, lying on the Cacheu River. Population 9,849 .-History and landmarks:The town of Cacheu is situated in territory of the Papel people....

     - Unknown
  • East Timor
    East Timor
    The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...

     - José Pinto Alcoforado de Azevedo e Sousa, Governor of East Timor (1815-1819)
  • French Guiana
    French Guiana
    French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...

     - João Severiano Maciel da Costa, Governor of French Guiana (1809-1817); also technically owned by Spain
  • Macau
    Macau
    Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

     - Lucas José de Alvarenga, Governor of Macau
    Governor of Macau
    The 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...

     (1814-1817)
  • Mozambique
    Mozambique
    Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

     - Marcos Caetano de Abreu e Meneses, Captain-General of Mozambique (1812-1817)

Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire comprised territories and colonies administered directly by Spain in Europe, in America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It originated during the Age of Exploration and was therefore one of the first global empires. At the time of Habsburgs, Spain reached the peak of its world power....

  • Viceroyalty of New Granada
    Viceroyalty of New Granada
    The Viceroyalty of New Granada was the name given on 27 May 1717, to a Spanish colonial jurisdiction in northern South America, corresponding mainly to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated later in 1739...

    - Francisco Montalvo y Ambulodi Arriola y Casabant Valdespino
    Francisco Montalvo y Ambulodi
    Francisco José Montalvo y Ambulodi Arriola y Casabant Valdespino was a Spanish soldier, colonial administrator and politician. From May 30, 1813 to April 16, 1816 he was governor and captain-general of New Granada , and from April 16, 1816 to March 9, 1818 he was viceroy of the colony...

    , Viceroy of New Granada (1816–1818)
  • Viceroyalty of New Spain -
    1. Félix María Calleja del Rey, conde de Calderón, Viceroy of New Spain (1813–1816)
    2. Juan Ruíz de Apodaca, conde de Venadito, Viceroy of New Spain (1816–1821)
    • Captaincy General of Cuba
      Captaincy General of Cuba
      The Captaincy General of Cuba was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain's attempt better to defend the Caribbean against foreign powers, which also involved creating captaincies general in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Yucatán. The restructuring of...

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      1. Juan Ruíz de Apodaca, Governor of Cuba (1812–1816)
      2. José Cienfuegos, Governor of Cuba (1816–1819)
    • Spanish East Indies
      Spanish East Indies
      Spanish East Indies was a term used to describe Spanish territories in Asia-Pacific which lasted for three centuries . With the seat of government in Manila, the territory encompassed the Philippine Islands, Guam and the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and for a period of time, parts of...

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      1. José de Gardoqui Jaraveita, Governor-General of the Philippines
        Governor-General of the Philippines
        The Governor-General of the Philippines was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines, governed mainly by Spain and the United States, and briefly by Great Britain, from 1565 to 1935....

         (1813–1816)
      2. Mariano Fernández de Folgueras, Governor-General of the Philippines
        Governor-General of the Philippines
        The Governor-General of the Philippines was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines, governed mainly by Spain and the United States, and briefly by Great Britain, from 1565 to 1935....

         (1816–1822)
    • Captaincy General of Santo Domingo - Carlos de Urrutia y Montoya, Governor of Santo Domingo (1813–1819)
  • Viceroyalty of Peru
    Viceroyalty of Peru
    Created in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru was a Spanish colonial administrative district that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima...

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    1. José Fernando Abascal y Sousa, marqués de la Concordia
      José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa
      José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, 1st Marquis of La Concordia , was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator in America...

      , Viceroy of Peru (1806–1816)
    2. Joaquín de la Pezuela y Sánchez, marqués de Viluma
      Joaquín de la Pezuela
      Joaquín de la Pezuela Griñán y Sánchez Muñoz de Velasco, 1st marquis of Viluma was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of Peru during the War of Independence.-Background:...

      , Viceroy of Peru (1816–1821)
    • Captaincy General of Chile - Francisco Casimiro Marcó del Ponte Angel-Díaz y Méndez, Governor and Captain-General of Chile (1815–1818)

Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

  • Saint-Barthélemy -
    1. Bernt Robert Gustaf Stackelberg, Governor of Saint-Barthélemy (1812-1816)
    2. Johan Samuel Rosensvärd, Governor of Saint-Barthélemy (1816-1818)

United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....

  • Alderney
    Alderney
    Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick...

     - John Le Mesurier III, Governor of Alderney (1803-1825), Pierre Gauvin, Judge of Alderney (1807-1836)
    • Sark
      Sark
      Sark is a small island in the Channel Islands in southwestern English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. It is a royal fief, geographically located in the Channel Islands in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It has a population...

       - Pierre Le Pelley II
      Pierre le Pelley II
      Pierre le Pelley II, 14th Seigneur of Sark was Seigneur of Sark from 1778 to 1820....

      , Seigneur of Sark (1778-1820)
  • Antigua
    Antigua
    Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...

    -Barbuda
    Barbuda
    Barbuda is an island in the Eastern Caribbean, and forms part of the state of Antigua and Barbuda. It has a population of about 1,500, most of whom live in the town of Codrington.-Location:...

    -Montserrat
    Montserrat
    Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...

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    1. Part of Leeward Islands
    2. George William Ramsay, Governor of Antigua (1816-1819)
  • Assiniboia
    Manitoba
    Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

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    1. Colin Robertson, Governor of Assiniboia (1815-1816)
    2. Robert Semple
      Robert Semple (Canada)
      Robert Semple was Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from autumn 1815 until his death at the Battle of Seven Oaks. In May 1816, the Métis led by Cuthbert Grant thought Semple and his men were going to declare war, so they got ready. Semple and some men went to confront the Métis, and a fight...

      , Governor of Assiniboia (1816)
    3. Alexander MacDonell
      Alexander Macdonell (politician)
      Alexander Macdonell was a soldier and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Scotland in 1762 and arrived in the Mohawk Valley of New York with other members of his family, including his brother, Angus Macdonell. He served with the Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment during the American...

      , Governor of Assiniboia (1816-1822)
  • Australia - see New South Wales
  • The Bahamas
    The Bahamas
    The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

     - Charles Cameron
    Charles Cameron
    Charles Cameron may refer to:* Charles Cameron , wrote Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?* Charles Cameron , Scottish architect who worked in Russia...

    , Governor of the Bahamas (1804-1820)
  • Barbados
    Barbados
    Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

     - Sir James Leith, Governor of Barbados (1815-1816)
  • Berbice
    Berbice
    Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1815 a colony of the Netherlands. After having been ceded to the United Kingdom in the latter year, it was merged with Essequibo and Demerara to form the colony of British Guiana in 1831...

     - Henry William Bentinck, Lieutenant Governor of Berbice (1814-1820)
  • Bermuda
    Bermuda
    Bermuda 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...

     - Sir James Cockburn
    Sir James Cockburn, 9th Baronet
    Sir James Cockburn, 9th Baronet was British Governor of Bermuda from 1811 to 1819.He was the eldest son of Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet and his second wife Augusta Anne Ayscough...

    , Governor of Bermuda (1811-1819)
  • British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

     - John Haldane, Governor of British Columbia (1813-1823)
  • British North America
    British North America
    British North America is a historical term. It consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire in continental North America after the end of the American Revolutionary War and the recognition of American independence in 1783.At the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775 the British...

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    1. vacant (1815-1816)
    2. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke
      John Coape Sherbrooke
      Sir John Coape Sherbrooke was a British soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in the British army in Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, India, the Mediterranean , and Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1811.His active defense of the colony during the War of 1812...

      , Governor General of British North America (1816–1818)
    • Cape Breton Island
      Cape Breton Island
      Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. It likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French demonym for Brittany....

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      1. Hugh Swayne, Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton Island (1813-1816)
      2. George Robert Ainslie
        George Robert Ainslie
        George Robert Ainslie was a Scottish general, noted for his coin collecting pursuits.-Military career:Ainslie was the eldest son of Sir Philip Ainslie, Kt., and was born near Edinburgh in 1776...

        , Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton Island (1816-1820)
    • Lower Canada
      Lower Canada
      The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...

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      1. Sir Gordon Drummond
        Gordon Drummond
        Sir Gordon Drummond, GCB was the first Canadian-born officer to command the military and the civil government of Canada...

        , Acting Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada
        Lieutenant-Governors of Quebec
        The following is a list of the Lieutenant Governors of Quebec. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Quebec came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of New France in 1627, through...

         (1815-1816)
      2. John Wilson
        John Wilson (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec)
        John Wilson was Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada in 1816....

        , Acting Governor of Lower Canada (1816)
      3. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke
        John Coape Sherbrooke
        Sir John Coape Sherbrooke was a British soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in the British army in Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, India, the Mediterranean , and Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1811.His active defense of the colony during the War of 1812...

        , Governor of Lower Canada (1816-1818)
    • New Brunswick
      New Brunswick
      New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

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      • Lieutenant Governor - Thomas Carleton
        Thomas Carleton
        Thomas Carleton was a British army officer who was promoted to Colonel during the American Revolutionary War after relieving the siege of Quebec in 1776. After the war, he was appointed as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, and supervised the resettlement of Loyalists from the United States in...

        , Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
        Lieutenant-Governors of New Brunswick
        The following is a list of the Lieutenant Governors of New Brunswick. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in New Brunswick came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of New Brunswick...

         (1786-1817)
      • Administrator (acting for Carleton) -
        1. George Stracey Smith - Administrator of New Brunswick (1814-1816)
        2. Harris Hailes - Administrator of New Brunswick (1816-1817, Lieutenant Governor 1817-1823)
    • Nova Scotia
      Nova Scotia
      Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

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      1. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke
        John Coape Sherbrooke
        Sir John Coape Sherbrooke was a British soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in the British army in Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, India, the Mediterranean , and Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1811.His active defense of the colony during the War of 1812...

        , Governor of Nova Scotia
        Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia
        The following is a list of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of...

         (1811-1816)
      2. George Stracey Smyth
        George Stracey Smyth
        George Stracey Smyth was a British army officer and Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.Born in England, he was appointed an ensign in the East Norfolk Regiment of Militia in 1779. He joined the army as an ensign in the 25th Foot in 1780...

        , Acting Governor of Nova Scotia
        Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia
        The following is a list of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of...

         (1816)
      3. George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
        George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
        General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie GCB , styled Lord Ramsay until 1787, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator...

        , Governor of Nova Scotia
        Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia
        The following is a list of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of...

         (1816-1820)
    • Prince Edward Island
      Prince Edward Island
      Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

       - Charles Douglass Smith
      Charles Douglass Smith
      Charles Douglass Smith was a British army officer and colonial administrator.He was born in England, the son of John Smith, a former captain in the British Army, and Mary Wilkinson. In 1776, he was commissioned Cornet in the 1st Regiment of Horse...

      , Governor of Prince Edward Island
      Lieutenant-Governors of Prince Edward Island
      The following is a list of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward Island, known as St. John's Island until 1799. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Prince Edward Island came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1873, the...

       (1812-1824)
    • Upper Canada
      Upper Canada
      The Province of Upper Canada was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution...

       - Francis Gore
      Francis Gore
      Francis Gore, was a British officer and British colonial administrator.Gore was commissioned into the 44th Foot in 1787, but transferred to the 54th Foot in 1794 and the 17th Light Dragoons in 1795. He retired with the rank of major and then became Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1806 to...

      , Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada
      Lieutenant-Governors of Ontario
      The following is a list of the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Ontario. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Ontario came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of Upper...

       (1815-1817)
  • Cayman Islands
    Cayman Islands
    The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...

    - William Bodden, Chief Magistrate of the Cayman Islands (1776-1823)
  • Ceylon - Robert Brownrigg
    Robert Brownrigg
    General Sir Robert Brownrigg, 1st Baronet GCB was a British statesman and soldier.-Military career:Brownrigg was commissioned as an ensign in 1775...

    , Governor of Ceylon (1812-1820)
  • Demerara-Essequibo
    Demerara-Essequibo
    The colony of Demerara-Essequibo was created on 13 August 1814 when the British combined the colonies of Demerara and Esequibo. On 20 November 1815 the colony was formally ceded to Britain by the Netherlands....

     - John Murray , Lieutenant-Governor of Demerara-Essequibo (1813-1824)
  • Dominica
    Dominica
    Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...

     - Charles William Maxwell, Governor of Dominica (1816-1819)
  • The Gambia - Alexander Grant
    Alexander Grant
    Alexander Grant was a Royal Navy officer, businessman, and politician in Upper Canada. During his service with the Royal Navy Grant saw action in the Seven Years' War before becoming a naval superintendent. He then embarked on a career in the ship building industry before losing much of his wealth...

    , Commandant of The Gambia (1815-1829)
  • Gibraltar
    Gibraltar
    Gibraltar 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...

     - Sir George Don
    George Don
    George Don was a Scottish botanist.George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1797. His father, also named George Don, was Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802 and his mother was Caroline Clementina Stuart. George was the elder brother of David...

    , Governor of Gibraltar (1814-1821)
  • Gold Coast
    Gold Coast (British colony)
    The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.-Overview:The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese in 1471. They encountered a variety of African kingdoms, some of which controlled substantial...

     - Edward White, Governor of the Committee of Merchants (1807-Apr. 21, 1816); Joseph Dawson (to 1817)
  • Grenada
    Grenada
    Grenada 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...

     - George Paterson, Acting Lieutenant Governor of Grenada (1815-1816); Phineas Riall
    Phineas Riall
    Sir Phineas Riall, KCH was a British army officer, who fought in the War of 1812. was born in Clonmel, Ireland into a wealthy Protestant landowning family, the third son of Phineas Riall of Heywood, Co. Tipperary, whose father had founded the Riall Bank of Clonmel, and Catherine Caldwell of Dublin...

    , Lieutenant Governor of Grenada (to 1823), Peter de Havilland, Bailiff of Grenada (1810-1821)
  • Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe 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...

     -
    1. Sir James Leith, Governor of Guadeloupe (1815-1816)
    2. Returned to France
  • Guernsey
    Guernsey
    Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

     - George Pembroke, Earl of Pembroke, Governor of Guernsey (1807-1827)
  • Heligoland
    Heligoland
    Heligoland is a small German archipelago in the North Sea.Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands are located in the Heligoland Bight in the south-eastern corner of the North Sea...

     - Charles Hamilton
    Charles Hamilton (governor)
    Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet was a British naval officer and governor of Newfoundland.Hamilton was born in Britain in 1767. He began his naval career at the age of nine on his father's ship, the Hector. He attended the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth from 1777 to 1779...

    , Lieutenant Governor of Heligoland (1814-1817)
  • Ionian Islands
    Ionian Islands
    The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e...

     - Sir Thomas Maitland, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands (1815-1823); de facto protectorate
  • India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

     - Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira
    Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
    Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings KG PC , styled The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762 and as The Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783 and known as The Earl of Moira between 1793 and 1816, was an Irish-British politician and military officer who served as...

    , Governor-General of India
    Governor-General of India
    The Governor-General of India was the head of the British administration in India, and later, after Indian independence, the representative of the monarch and de facto head of state. The office was created in 1773, with the title of Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William...

     (1813-1823)
  • Jamaica
    Jamaica
    Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

     - William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester
    William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester
    Colonel William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester , styled Viscount Mandeville until 1783, was a British peer, soldier, colonial administrator and politician.-Background and education:...

    , Governor of Jamaica (1813-1821)
    • Belize
      Belize
      Belize is a constitutional monarchy and the northernmost country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Even though Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official...

       - Sir George Arthur, Superintendent of Belize (1814-1822)
    • Cayman Islands
      Cayman Islands
      The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...

       - William Bodden, Chief Magistrate of the Cayman Islands (1776-1823)
  • Leeward Islands
    Leeward Islands
    The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...

     -
    1. Sir James Leith, Governor of the Leeward Islands (1814-1816)
    2. Leeward Islands colony divided in 1816:
    • Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat colony
    • St. Christopher, Nevis, and Anguilla plus British Virgin Islands as a new colony
  • Malta
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

     - Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Malta (1813-1824)
  • Mauritius
    Mauritius
    Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

     - Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar
    Robert Townsend Farquhar
    Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, 1st Baronet was an influential British merchant of the early nineteenth century who served as a colonial governor and Member of Parliament.During his lengthy service for both the East India Company and the British government,Farquhar gained a reputation as an...

    , Governor of Mauritius (1810-1823)
  • New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

     - Lachlan Macquarie
    Lachlan Macquarie
    Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB , was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He served as the last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony...

    , Governor of New South Wales (1810-1821)
    • Van Diemen's Land
      Van Diemen's Land
      Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania...

       - Thomas Davey
      Thomas Davey
      Thomas Davey was the second Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemens Land.-Early life:Few details are known of his early life, but Thomas Davey was serving in the army or navy in 1777, and went to Australia as a lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Marines with the First Fleet 10 years later...

      , Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1813-1817)
  • Newfoundland -
    1. Sir Richard Godwin Keats
      Richard Goodwin Keats
      Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats was a British naval officer who fought throughout the American Revolution, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic War. He retired in 1812 due to ill health and was made Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland from 1813 to 1816. In 1821 he was made Governor of...

      , Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1813-1816)
    2. Francis Pickmore
      Francis Pickmore
      Francis Pickmore naval officer and colonial governor born in Chester, Cheshire, England and died St. John's, Newfoundland....

      , Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1816-1818)
  • Rupert's Land
    Rupert's Land
    Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British North America, consisting of the Hudson Bay drainage basin that was nominally owned by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870, although numerous aboriginal groups lived in the same territory and disputed the...

     -
    1. Robert Semple
      Robert Semple (Canada)
      Robert Semple was Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from autumn 1815 until his death at the Battle of Seven Oaks. In May 1816, the Métis led by Cuthbert Grant thought Semple and his men were going to declare war, so they got ready. Semple and some men went to confront the Métis, and a fight...

      , Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land (1815-1816)
    2. James Curtis Bird
      James Curtis Bird
      James Bird was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader. He was born in England and came to Canada in 1788.Bird made steady progress within the company serving his apprenticeship in York Factory and then moving on to more westerly posts which he first visited with the HBC inland master, William Tomison...

      , Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land (1816-1818)
  • St. Christopher-Nevis
    Nevis
    Nevis is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located near the northern end of the Lesser Antilles archipelago, about 350 km east-southeast of Puerto Rico and 80 km west of Antigua. The 93 km² island is part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies...

    -Anguilla
    Anguilla
    Anguilla is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin...

    -British Virgin Islands
    British Virgin Islands
    The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...

    1. Part of Leeward Islands
    2. Stedman Rawlins, Governor (1816)
    3. Thomas Probyn, Governor(1816-1821)
  • St. Lucia -
    1. Edward Stehelin, Governor of St. Lucia (1815-1816)
    2. Robert Douglas, Governor of St. Lucia (1816)
    3. Richard Augustus Seymour, Governor of St. Lucia (1816-1817)
  • St. Vincent
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....

     - Charles Brisbane, Governor of St. Vincent (1808-1829)
  • Tobago
    Tobago
    Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the southern Caribbean, northeast of the island of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada. The island lies outside the hurricane belt...

     -
    1. John Balfour, Acting Governor of Tobago (1815-1816)
    2. Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, Governor of Tobago (1816-1827)
  • Trinidad
    Trinidad
    Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

     - Sir Ralph James Woodford, Governor of Trinidad (1813-1828)
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