Gambia (01)

1765-1965 British rule


YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1765 25 may UK crown colony Charles O'Hara
1775 november Matthias McNamara
1777 8 april John Clarke
1778 18 august William Lacy
1779 11 august Part of French Senegal
1816 23 august UK colony Alexander Grant
1821 17 october Part of UK Sierra Leone colony
1843 11 april UK colony Henry Froude Seagram
1843 october Edmund Norcott
1844 Charles Fitzgerald
1847 Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
1851 Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy
1852 Luke Smythe O'Connor
1859 september George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy
1866 19 february Part of UK West Africa Colony
1888 24 november UK colony Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter
1891 Sir Robert Baxter Llewelyn
1900 Sir George Chardin Denton
1911 21 december Henry Lincoln Galway
1914 11 april Sir Edward John Cameron
1920 Herbert Henniker
1921 3 january Sir Cecil Hamilton Armitage
1927 10 march Sir John Middleton
1928 29 november Sir Edward Brandis Denham
1930 11 september Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer
1934 12 april Sir Arthur Frederick Richards
1936 22 october Sir Wilfred Thomas Southorn
1942 23 march Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood
1947 29 march Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright
1949 december Sir Percy Wyn-Harris
1958 19 june Sir Edward Henry Windley
1962 29 march Sir John Warburton Paul
1963 3 october UK self-governig colony David Kwasi Jawara

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