List of Governors of the Leeward Islands

Governors of the Leeward Islands (1671–1816)

• 1671–1686: First Baronet William Stapleton
• 1686-1689: Sir Nathaniel Johnson
• 1689-1699: Christopher Codrington, the Elder
• 1699–1704: Christopher Codrington, the Younger
• 1704: John Johnson
• 1704: Sir William Mathew
• 1704–1706: John Johnson
• 1706–1710: Daniel Parke
• 1710–1711: Walter Hamilton
• 1711–1714: Walter Douglas
• 1714–1715: William Mathew, Jr.
• 1715–1721: Walter Hamilton
• 1721–1728: John Hart
• 1728–1729: The Earl of Londonderry
• 1729: William Cosby
• 1729: George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard
• 1729–1752: William Mathew, Jr.
• 1753–1766: George Thomas
• 1766–1768: James Vercild
• 1768–1771: William Woodley
• 1771–1776: Sir Ralph Payne
• 1776–1781: William Mathew Burt
• 1781–1788: Sir Thomas Shirley
• 1788–1790: John Nugent
• 1790–1791: Sir Thomas Shirley
• 1791–1793: William Woodley
• 1795–1799: Charles Leigh
• 1799–1807: The Lord Lavington
• 1808–1814: Hugh Elliot
• 1814–1816: Sir James Leith

Governors of the Leeward Islands (1871–1958)

• 1871–1873: Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine
• 1873–1874: Sir Henry Turner Irving
• 1874: Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson
• 1875–1881: Sir George Berkeley
• 1881: H. J. B. Bufford-Hancock
• 1881–1884: Sir John Hawley Glover
• 1884–1885: Sir Charles Cameron Lees
• 1885: Charles Monroe Eldridge
• 1885–1888: The Viscount Gormanston
• 1888: Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell
• 1888–1895: Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
• 1895–1901: Sir Francis Fleming
• 1901–1902: Sir Henry Moore Jackson
• 1902–1904: Sir Gerald Strickland.
• 1904–1905: Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys
• 1906–1912: Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott
• 1912–1916: Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
• 1916–1921: Sir Edward Marsh Merewether
• 1921–1929: Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
• 1929–1936: Sir Thomas Reginald St. Johnston
• 1936–1941: Sir Gordon James Lethem
• 1941–1943: Sir Douglas James Jardine
• 1943–1947: Sir Brian Freeston
• 1947–1948: William Alexander Macnie, Esq., O.B.E.
• 1948–1950: The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
• 1950–1956: Sir Kenneth Blackburne
• 1956–1958: Sir Alexander Thomas Williams