Colonial Heads of Mombasa - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

List of Colonial Heads of Mombasa

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
Mvita (Swahili) / Manbasa (Arabic) sultanate
Independent from Kilwa Kisiwani Kilwa Kisiwani Kilwa Kisiwani is a community on an island off the coast of East Africa, in present day Tanzania.- History :A document written around AD 1200 called al-Maqama al Kilwiyya discovered in Oman, gives details of a mission to reconvert Kilwa to Ibadism, as it had recently been effected by the Ghurabiyya...
Portuguese Suzerainty
1593 to 1596	Mateus de Vasconcelos, Captain-Major
1596 to 1598	António de Andrade, Captain-Major
1598 to 1606	Rui Soares de Melo, Captain-Major
1606 to 1609	Gaspar Pereira, Captain-Major
1609 to 1610	Pedro de Abreu Pedro de Abreu Pedro de Abreu is a Brazilian entrepreneur and motivational speaker. He is the founder of the Check Mate Foundation, based in of Columbia, South Carolina.... , Captain-Major
1610 to 1614	Manuel Pereira Manuel Pereira Manuel Pereira is a Spanish fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.-References:... , Captain-Major
1614 to 1620	Simão Pereira Simão Pereira Simão Pereira is a town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.-References:... , Captain-Major
1620 to 1625	Francisco Pereira, Captain-Major
1625 to 1629	Marçal de Macedo, Captain-Major
1629 to 15 August 1631	Pedro de Gambôa, Captain-Major
15 August 1631 to 1635	Pedro Botelho, Captain-Major
1635 to 1638	Francisco de Seixas e Cabreira, Captain-Major	1st Term
Portuguese Colony under Goa Goa Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
1638 to 1639	Francisco de Seixas e Cabreira, Captain-Major	1st Term
1639 to 1642	Martim Manuel, Captain-Major
1642 to 1643	...., Captain-Major
1643 to 1646	Manuel Coutinho, Captain-Major
1646 to 1651	António de Meneses, Captain-Major
1651 to 1653	Francisco de Seixas e Cabreira, Captain-Major	2nd Term
1653 to 1658	..., Captain-Major
1658 to 1663	José da Silva José da Silva José da Silva is a Portuguese sprint canoer who competed in the early 1990s. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-2 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.-References:*... , Captain-Major
1663 to 1667	Manuel de Campos, Captain-Major
1667 to 1670	João Cota, Captain-Major
1670 to 1671	vacant
1671 to 1673	João da Costa, Captain-Major
1673 to 1676	Manuel de Campos, Captain-Major
1676 to 1679	Francisco Faria, Captain-Major
1679 to 16??	Manuel Franco Manuel Franco Manuel Franco was President of Paraguay. He was a model citizen and illustrious teacher.-Childhood and Youth:Doctor Manuel Franco was born in Concepción on June 9, 1871 in times of the government of Cirilo Antonio Rivarola... , Captain-Major
16?? to 1682	Pedro Henriques, Captain-Major
1682 to 1686	João Portugal, Captain-Major
1688 to 1693	Duarte de Melo, Captain-Major
1693 to 1694	Pascual Sarmento, Captain-Major
1694 to 1696	João Leão, Captain-Major
1696 to 1697	Antonio de Melo, Captain-Major
1697 to 1698	Dau, príncipe de Faza, Captain-Major
1698 to 12 December 1698	Leonardo Barbosa Souto-Maior, Captain-Major
Oman Oman Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the... i Suzerainty
Wali Wali Walī , is an Arabic word meaning "custodian", "protector", "sponsor", or authority as denoted by its definition "crown". "Wali" is someone who has "Walayah" over somebody else. For example, in Fiqh the father is wali of his children. In Islam, the phrase ولي الله walīyu 'llāh... (Swahili Swahili language Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia... : Liwali) (Governors)
12 December 1698 to December 1698	Imam Sa‘if ibn Sultan, Wali
December 1698 to 12 March 1728	Nasr ibn Abdallah al-Mazru‘i, Wali
Portuguese Suzerainty
Portuguese Colony under Goa Goa Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
12 March 1728 to 21 September 1729	Álvaro Caetano de Melo Castro, Captain-Major
Oman Oman Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the... i Suzerainty
Wali Wali Walī , is an Arabic word meaning "custodian", "protector", "sponsor", or authority as denoted by its definition "crown". "Wali" is someone who has "Walayah" over somebody else. For example, in Fiqh the father is wali of his children. In Islam, the phrase ولي الله walīyu 'llāh... (Swahili Swahili language Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia... : Liwali) (Governors)
1729 to 1735	..., Wali
1735 to 1739	Sa‘id al-Hadermi, Wali
1739 to 1745	Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Mazru‘i, Wali
1746	‘Ali ibn Uthman al-Mazru‘i, Wali
Independent (disputed with Oman Oman Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the... )
1746 to 1755	Sultan ‘Ali ibn Uthman al-Mazru‘i
1755 to 1773	Sultan Masud ibn Naisr al-Mazru‘i
1773 to 1782	Sultan Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Mazru‘i
1782 to 1811	Sultan Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Mazru‘i
1812 to 1823	Sultan ‘Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Mazru‘i
Oman Oman Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the... i Suzerainty
1823 to 1826	Sultan Sulayman ibn ‘Ali al-Mazru‘i
1826 to March 1835	Salim ibn Ahmad al-Mazru‘i, Wali
March 1835 to 1836	Nasur ibn Ahmad al-Mazru‘i, Wali
1836 to 1837	Rashid ibn Salim al-Mazru‘i
1837 to 24 June 1837	Khamis ibn Rashid al-Mazru‘i
1837 to 1860	Abdallah ibn Hamish al-Mazru‘i
1860 to 1873	Mubarrak ibn Rashid al-Mazru‘i
1873 to 1 July 1895	Rashid ibn Hamish al-Mazru‘i
British Suzerainty
British Protectorate
9 February 1824 to 13 February 1824	William Fitzwilliam Wentworth Owen, Governor
13 February 1824 to 29 May 1824	John James Reitz, Governor
29 May 1824 to September 1824	vacant
September 1824 to 25 July 1826	J.B. Emery, Governor
Zanzibar Zanzibar Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba... i Suzerainty
24 June 1837	Annexed by Zanzibar
British Suzerainty
25 May 1887	Administration handed to the British East Africa Association
1 July 1895	Kenya protectorate coastal strip nominally under Zanzibari sovereignty
12 December 1963	Incorporated into independent Kenya

List of Colonial Heads of Mombasa

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