List of Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed
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Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed

  • 1328 - 1333 Sir Alexander de Seton, Lord of Seton & Winchburgh

  • 1440-?: Sir Henry Percy
    Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
    Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland was an English nobleman and military commander in the lead up to the Wars of the Roses. He was the son of Henry "Hotspur" Percy, and the grandson of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland...


  • 1484-?: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
    Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
    Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland was the son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife Joan Beaufort.-Family:...


  • (Henry VIII): Sir Thomas Clifford

  • (Mary I): John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers
    John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers
    John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers was a British aristocrat, and the son of Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baron Conyers.-Personal life:...


  • 1564-?: Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
    Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
    Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, KG was an English nobleman, soldier and politician and godfather to Sir. Francis Drake.-Early life:...


  • 1568-?: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
    Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
    Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, of Hunsdon was an English nobleman.He was the son of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn and also the mistress to King Henry VIII of England...


  • (James I): John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon
    John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon
    John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon was an English peer, politician and Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.He was born the son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and was the younger brother of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon and the grandson of Mary Boleyn. It is alleged that his father was the illegitimate...


  • c.1610: Sir James Dundas of Arniston


  • 1660-1675: William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington
  • 1675-1686: Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • 1686-1688: William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington

  • 1702–1711: Edmund Maine
    Edmund Maine
    Edmund Maine was a British politician.He was a Member of Parliament for Morpeth from 1705 to 1708.He died aged 78....


  • 1713–1715?: Sir Henry Belasyse
  • 1715–1718: Charles Wills
    Charles Wills
    Sir Charles Wills KB was a British general in the 18th century.He won the Battle of Preston against the Jacobites. He was later appointed to the Privy Council and was member of parliament for Totnes.-References:...

  • 1718–1719: George MacCartney
  • 1719–1732: Joseph Sabine
  • 1732–1733: George Wade
    George Wade
    Field Marshal George Wade served as a British military commander and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.-Early career:Wade, born in Kilavally, Westmeath in Ireland, was commissioned into the Earl of Bath's Regiment in 1690 and served in Flanders in 1692, during the Nine Years War, earning a...

  • 1733–?: Richard Russell
  • 1740–1741: Thomas Whetham
  • 1742: James Tyrrell
  • 1742–1753: Thomas Howard
  • 1753–1765: John Guise
  • 1765–1776? Robert Monckton
    Robert Monckton
    Robert Monckton was an officer of the British army and a colonial administrator in British North America. He had a distinguished military and political career, being second in command to General Wolfe at the battle of Quebec and subsequently being the Governor of New York State...

  • 1776–1777: Sir John Clavering
    John Clavering (British Army officer)
    Lieutenant General Sir John Clavering KB was an army officer and diplomat.-Military career:Baptised in Lanchester, County Durham, England in 1722, Clavering was the younger son of Sir James Clavering Bt and Catherine Yorke, and younger brother of Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet...

  • 1778–1780: Sir John Mordaunt
    John Mordaunt (British Army officer)
    General Sir John Mordaunt, KB was a British soldier and Whig politician, the son of Lieutenant-General Harry Mordaunt and Margaret Spencer...

  • 1780–1795: Hon. John Vaughan
    John Vaughan (British army officer)
    Lieutenant-General Sir John Vaughan KB , styled The Honourable from 1741, was a British soldier and a Member of Parliament in both the British and Irish Parliaments.-Background and early career:...

  • 1795–1808: Hon. William Howe
    William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
    William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC was a British army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American War of Independence...

    , later Viscount Howe
  • 1808–1833: Banastre Tarleton
    Banastre Tarleton
    General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British soldier and politician.He is today probably best remembered for his military service during the American War of Independence. He became the focal point of a propaganda campaign claiming that he had fired upon surrendering Continental...

  • 1833–1850: Sir James Bathurst
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