Colonial Heads of the British Virgin Islands
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List of Colonial Heads of the 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...


Term Incumbent Notes
English colony
1666
1741 John Pickering
John Pickering (judge)
John Pickering served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and as Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire...

, President
President
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1742 to 1750 John Hunt
John Hunt
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, President
1750 to 1751 James Purcell, President
1751 to 1775 John Purcell
John Purcell
John Purcell VC was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

, President
1775 to 1782 John Nugent
John Nugent
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, President
1782 to 1811 ..., President
1811 to 18.. Richard Hetherington
Richard Hetherington
Richard Hetherington was a British naval officer, influential landowner and colonial administrator.Son of Colonel Richard Hetherington b Dec 1737 , died Aug 1821 at Tortola and Mary Pickering b. circa 1743, d...

, President
Part of the Leeward Islands
1833 to 1839
1839 to 1850 Edward Hay Drummond Hay
Edward Hay Drummond Hay
Sir Edward Hay Drummond-Hay was a British naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator.He was born in England, son of Captain Edward Drummond Hay, who was a nephew of the ninth Earl of Kinnoul, and educated at Charterhouse and was a Colonel of the 5th West India Regiment from 6 November 1854...

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1852 to 1854 John Cornell Chads
John Cornell Chads
Lieutenant-colonel John Cornell Chads joined the Royal Marines and reached the rank of 2nd Lieutenant on 4 May 1809 aged 16. He became a Captain in the 1st West India Regiment on 27 January 1820. He became a Major on 22 April 1836 still serving in the West India Regiment...

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1854 to 1857 Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright
Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright
Sir Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright, KCMG was a British civil servant who held positions including Governor of British Guiana.Cornelius was baptised on 8 January 1818 at Saint Mary church in London. He was the son of Lawrence and Jane Maria Kortright...

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1859 to 1861 Thomas Price
Thomas Price
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, President
1861 to 1864 James Robert Longden, President
1866 to 1869 Sir Arthur Carlos Henry Rumbold, President
1869 to 1872 Alexander Wilson Muir, President
1873 to 1879 Richard Mahoney Hickson, President
1879 to 1882 John Kemys Spencer-Churchill, President
1882 to 1884 Richard Henry Kortright Dyett, President
1884 to 1887 Fredrick Augustus Pickering
Fredrick Augustus Pickering
Fredrick Augustus Pickering was the first ever coloured President of the British Virgin Islands. He was also the last President of the Territory; after he stepped down in 1887, no replacement was appointed. In 1889, the office was replaced with that of Commissioner. He served in the post from 1884...

, President
1887 to 1893 Edward John Cameron, Administrator
1894 to 1896 Alexander R. Mackay, Administrator
1896 to 1903 Nathaniel George Cookman, Administrator
1903 to 1910 Robert Stephen Earl, Administrator
1910 to 1919 Thomas Leslie Hardtman Jarvis, Administrator
1919 to 1922 Herbert Walter Peebles, Administrator
1922 to 1923 R. Hargrove, Administrator
1923 to 1926 Otho Lewis Hancock, Administrator
1926 to 1934 Frank Cecil Clarkson, Administrator
1934 to 1946 Donald Percy Wailling, Administrator
1946 to 1954 John Augustus Cockburn Cruikshank, Administrator
1954 to 1956 Henry Anthony Camillo Howard
Henry Anthony Camillo Howard
Henry Anthony Camillo Howard was a British journalist, military officer, and colonial leader in the Caribbean.- Early life and family :...

, Administrator
1956 to 1959 Geoffrey Poole Allsebrook, Administrator
1959 to 1 January 1960 Gerald Jackson Bryan, Administrator
1 January 1960 Dissolution of the 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 January 1960 to 1962 Gerald Jackson Bryan, Administrator
1962 to 1967 Martin Samuel Staveley, Administrator
1967 to 1971 John Sutherland Thomson, Administrator
1971 to 1974 Derek George Cudmore, Governor
1974 to 1978 Walter Wilkinson Wallace, Governor
1978 to 1981 James Alfred Davidson
James Alfred Davidson
James Alfred Davidson, OBE, naval commander and diplomat, was born on March 22, 1922. He died on May 6, 2004, aged 82. During the Second World War James Davidson served in every theatre of the war at sea...

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1982 to 1986 David Robert Barwick, Governor
1986 to 1991 J. Mark A. Herdman, Governor
14 October 1991 to 21 June 1995 Peter Alfred Penfold, Governor
21 June 1995 to 1998 David Mackilligin, Governor
3 July 1998 to 5 October 2002 Frank Savage, Governor
5 October 2002 to 14 October 2002 Elton Georges, acting Governor
14 October 2002 to present Tom Macan
Tom Macan
Thomas Townley Macan was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Sussex, where he was President of the Student Union. He was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the British Virgin Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea, from 14 October 2002 to 10...

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