List of colonial heads of Saint Lucia
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This is a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

from the first French settlement in 1650, until the island gained independence from the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in 1979.

Governors of the French colony of Sainte Lucie, 1762–1802

  • George Brydges Rodney 1762–1763 (British occupation)
  • Pierre Lucien de La Chapelle de Jumilhac 1763–1764
  • Claude Anne de Micoud 1764–1771
  • Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1771–1772 (first time)
  • Frédéric Laure de Kearney 1772–1773
  • Alexandre Potier de Courcy 1773–1776
  • Marc Étienne de Joubert 1776–1778
  • Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1778–1781 (second time)
  • Arthur St. Leger 1781–1783 (British occupation)
  • Jean Zénon André de Véron de Laborie 1784–1789
  • Jean Joseph de Gimat 1789–1793
  • Nicolas Xavier de Ricard 1793–1794
  • Sir Charles Gordon 1794–1795 (British occupation)
  • James Stewart 1795 (British occupation)
  • Goyrand 1795–1796 (Commissioner)
  • John Moore 1796–1797 (British occupation)
  • James Drummond 1797–1798 (British occupation)
  • George Prevost
    George Prevost
    Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the eldest son of Swiss French Augustine Prévost, he joined the British Army as a youth and became a captain in 1784. Prévost served in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary...

     1798–1802 (British occupation)
  • George Henry Vansittart 1802 (British occupation)
  • Jean François Xavier Nogues 1802–1803

Governors of the British colony of Saint Lucia 1802–1834

  • Robert Brereton 1803–1807
  • Alexander Wood 1807–1814
  • Francis Delaval 1814–1815
  • Edward Stehelin 1815–1816
  • Robert Douglas 1816
  • Richard Augustus Seymour 1816–1817
  • Edward O'Hara 1817–1818
  • John Keane
    John Keane, 1st Baron Keane
    John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, GCB, GCH was a British soldier.Keane was born in Belmont, Ireland, the second son of Sir John Keane, 1st Baronet. He joined the British Army as an Ensign at age 11 in 1792. He rose the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th Foot and commanded a brigade in the...

     1818–1819
  • John Joseph Winkler 1819–1821
  • John Montagu Mainwaring 1821–1824 (first time)
  • Nathaniel Shepherd Blackwell 1824–1826
  • John Montagu Mainwaring 1826–1827 (second time)
  • Lorenzo Moore 1827–1829
  • David Stewart 1829
  • Francis Power 1829–1830
  • James Alexander Farquharson 1830–1831 (first time)
  • George Mackie 1831
  • Mark Anthony Bozon 1831–1832
  • James Alexander Farquharson 1832–1834 (second time)

Lieutenant-Governors of Saint Lucia, 1834–1857

Subordinate to the Governor of the British Windward Islands:
  • Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill 1834–1837
  • Thomas Bunbury
    Thomas Bunbury
    Major Thomas Bunbury , soldier and penal administrator, of the 80th Regiment, was commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, from April to July 1839. He joined the army in 1807 and fought in the Peninsular War....

     1837–1838
  • John Alexander Mein 1838–1839
  • Mathias Everard
    Mathias Everard
    Mathias Everard , was a major-general, of Randilestown, co. Meath.Everard was the third son of Thomas Everard of Randilestown, by his wife and cousin, Barbara, daughter of O'Reilly of Ballinlough Castle, and sister of Sir Henry Nugent, was appointed ensign in the 2nd or Queen's, regiment at...

     1839–1841
  • George Graydon 1841–1843
  • Andrew Clarke 1843–1844
  • Arthur Wellesley Torrens 1844–1848
  • Sir Charles Henry Darling
    Charles Henry Darling
    Sir Charles Henry Darling KCB was a British colonial governor.He was born at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the son of Major-General Henry Darling and nephew of General Sir Ralph Darling....

     1848–1852
  • Henry Clermont Cobbe 1852
  • Maurice Power 1852–1857

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1857–1889

  • Henry Heggart Breen 1857–1862
  • James Mayer Grant 1862–1869
  • Sir William Des Vœux
    William Des Vœux
    Sir George William Des Vœux, GCMG was a British colonial governor who served as Governor of Fiji , Newfoundland , and Hong Kong .-Early life:...

     1869–1878
  • Arthur Elibank Havelock 1878–1879
  • Sir Roger Goldsworthy
    Roger Goldsworthy
    Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy KCMG was a British colonial administrator.Roger Goldsworthy was born in Marylebone, Middlesex in 1839, and educated at Sandhurst, the younger brother of Major-General Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy MP...

     1881–1884
  • Edward Laborde 1885–1889

Commissioners of Saint Lucia 1889–1958

  • Robert Baxter Llewelyn 1889–1891
  • Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury 1891–1896
  • Charles Anthony King-Harman 1896–1899
  • Harry Langhorne Thompson 1900–1902
  • Sir George Melville 1902–1905
  • Philip Clark Cork 1905–1909
  • Edward John Cameron 1909–1914
  • William Douglas Young 1914–1915
  • Gideon Oliphant-Murray
    Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank
    Gideon Oliphant-Murray, 2nd Viscount Elibank was a Scottish politician and nobleman, inheriting the viscountcy as the eldest surviving son of 1st Viscount Elibank....

     1915–1918
  • Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston 1918–1927
  • Charles William Doorly 1927–1935
  • Edward William Baynes 1935–1938
  • Arthur Alban Wright 1938–1944
  • Edward Francis Twining 1944–1946
  • John Montague Stow
    John Montague Stow
    Sir John Montague Stow was a politician from Barbados. He was the last governor of Barbados and served from 8 October 1959 until 29 November 1966. After Barbados gained independence on 30 November 1966, he was appointed as a governor-general and served until 18 May 1967.- References :...

     1947–1953
  • John Kingsmill Thorp 1953–1958

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1958–1967

After incorporation into the Federation of the West Indies:
  • Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith
    Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith
    Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith KCMG , was a British colonial administrator.-Background and education:...

     1958–1962
  • Gerald Jackson Bryan 1962–1967

Governors of Saint Lucia 1967–1979

On 27 February 1967, Saint Lucia became an associated state of the United Kingdom, responsible for its own internal affairs.
  • Sir Frederick Clarke
    Frederick Clarke
    Professor Sir Frederick Clarke or Sir Fred Clarke was the Director of the Institute of Education in the University of London between 1936 and 1945. During the 1930s and 1940s he was also a strong advocate for educational reform in England and Wales...

     1967–1971
  • Sir Ira Marcus Simmons 1971–1974
  • Sir Allen Lewis 1974–1979


On 22 February, 1979, Saint Lucia achieved independence from the United Kingdom. For a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia after independence, see Governor-General of Saint Lucia.
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