List of colonial governors and administrators of Dominica
This article lists the governors and other administrators of Dominica (where known), during its time as a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain (1761–1778; 1784–1800), the Kingdom of France (1778–1784), and the United Kingdom (1800–1978).
Governors (1761–1833)
British rule (1761–1778)
- 1761–1763: The Lord Rollo
- 1763–1765: Robert Melvill
- 1765–1767: George Scott(acting)
- 1768–1773: Sir William Young
- 1773–1774: William Stewart
- 1774–1778: Thomas Shirley
- 1778: William Stewart (acting)
French rule (1778–1784)
- 1778–1781: Marie-Charles, Marquis du Chilleau
- 1781–1782: Comte de Bourgon
- 1782–1784: M. de Beaupré
British rule (1784–1833)
- 1784–1792: Sir John Orde
- 1789–1790: Thomas Bruce (acting)
- 1792–1794: Thomas Bruce (acting)
- 1794–1796: Henry Hamilton
- 1796–1797: John Matson (acting)
- 1797–1802: Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone
- 1802–1805: George Prévost
- 1805–1808: George Metcalfe (acting)
- 1808: Edward Barnes
- 1808–1809: James Montgomerie
- 1809–1812: Edward Barnes
- 1812–1813: John Corlet (acting)
- 1813–1814: George Robert Ainslie
- 1814–1816: Benjamin Lucas (acting)
- 1816: Robert Reid (acting)
- 1816–1819: Charles William Maxwell
- 1819–1820: Robert Reid (acting)
- 1820–1821: Samuel Ford Whittingham
- 1821–1822: Robert Reid (acting)
- 1822–1824: The Earl of Huntingdon
- 1824: William Bremner (acting)
- 1824–1830: William Nicolay
- 1827–1828: John Laidlaw (acting)
- 1830–1832: James Potter Lockhart (acting)
- 1832–1833: Evan John Murray MacGregorhkjhglh
Lieutenant-Governors (1833–1872)
In 1833, following the creation of the
- 1833–1835: Charles Marsh Schomberg
- 1835–1837: James Potter Lockhart (acting)
- 1837–1838: Henry Light
- 1838: John Longley
- 1838–1839: S. Bridgewater (acting)
- 1839–1843: John Macphail
- 1843–1845: Dugald Stewart Laidlaw (acting)
- 1845–1851: George McDonald
- 1851–1857: Samuel Wensley Blackall
- 1857–1861: Harry St. George Ord (acting from 1860)
- 1860–1861: George Berkeley(acting)
- 1861–1864: Thomas Price
- 1865: William Cleaver Francis Robinson(acting)
- 1865–1867: James Robert Longden
- 1867–1869: Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer (acting)
- 1869–1871: Sanford Freeling
- 1871–1872: Neale Porter (acting)
Presidents (1872–1895)
In 1872, the lieutenant-governor was replaced by a president, who remained subordinate to the Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.
- 1872–1873: Alexander Wilson Moir
- 1873–1882: Charles Monroe Eldridge
- 1882–1887: James Meade
- 1887–1894: George Ruthven Le Hunte
- 1894–1895: Edward Baynes (acting)
Administrators (1895–1967)
In 1895, the president was replaced by an administrator, who remained subordinate to the Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands until 1940, when Dominica was transferred to the
- 1895–1899: Philip Arthur Templer
- 1899–1905: Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
- 1905–1914: William Douglas Young (acting from 1913)
- 1914: Edward Rawle Drayton
- 1915–1919: Arthur William Mahaffy
- 1919–1923: Robert Walter
- 1923–1924: Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston (acting)
- 1924–1930: Edward Carlyon Eliot
- 1927–1928: Herbert Walter Peebles (acting)
- 1930–1931: Thomas Edwin Percival Baynes (acting)
- 1931–1933: Walter Andrew Bowring
- 1933–1937: Henry Bradshaw Popham
- 1937–1938: Thomas Edwin Percival Baynes (acting)
- 1938–1946: James Scott Neill (acting from 1945)
- 1946–1952: Edwin Porter Arrowsmith
- 1952–1959: Henry Laurence Lindo
- 1960–1964: Alec Lovelace
- 1965–1967: Geoffrey Colin Guy
Governors (1967–1978)
In 1967, the administrator was replaced by a governor, following Dominica's designation as an Associated State.
- 1967: Geoffrey Colin Guy
- 1967–1978: Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue