Sierra Leone (01)

1791-1961 British rule


1791-1934

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1791 january UK colony Alexander Falconbidge
1792 march John Clarkson
1792 31 december William Dawes (I)
1794 march Zachary Macaulay (I)
1795 6 march William Dawes (II)
1796 march Zachary Macaulay (II)
1799 april John Gray (I)
1799 may Thomas Ludlum (I)
1800 John Gray (II)
1801 january William Dawes (III)
1803 february William Day (I)
1803 Thomas Ludlum (II)
1805 William Day (II)
1806 William Ludlum (III)
1808 1 january UK Crown Colony
1808 21 july Thomas Perronet Thompson
1810 12 february Edward H. Columbine
1811 may Robert Bones
1811 1 july Charles William Maxwell
1814 july Sir Charles Macarthy (I)
1814 december J. Mailing
1815 january R. Purdie
1815 march William Appleton
1815 june H.B. Hyde
1815 july Sir Charles Macarthy (II)
1820 july Sir Alexander Grant
1821 17 october UK West African Colony
1821 november Sir Charles Macarthy (III)
1824 21 january Daniel Molloy Hamilton
1824 5 february Sir Charles Turner
1826 8 march Kenneth Macaulay
1826 august Sir Neil Campbell
1827 december Hugh Lumley (I)
1828 may Dixon Denham
1828 9 june Hugh Lumley (II)
1828 july Samuel Smart
1828 november Henry John Ricketts
1829 Augustine Fitzgerald Evans
1830 Alexander Maclean Fraser
1830 Alexander Findlay
1833 july Michael Linning Melville
1833 december Octavius Temple
1834 Thomas Cole (I)
1835 Henry Campbell
1837 Thomas Cole (II)
1837 Richard Doherty
1840 John Jeremie
1841 april J. Carr
1841 september William Fergusson (I)
1842 january George MacDonald
1844 july William Fergusson (II)
1845 Norman MacDonald
1852 Arthur Edward Kennedy (I)
1854 Robert Dugan
1854 Sir Stephan John Hill (I)
1859 Alexander Fitzjames
1860 Sir Stephan John Hill (II)
1861 William Hill
1862 Samuel Wensley Blackall (I)
1865 Chamberlayne
1866 19 february Samuel Wensley Blackall (II)
1868 John Jennings Kendall (I)
1869 Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy
1872 january John Jennings Kendall (II)
1872 february John Pope Hennessey
1873 7 march Robert Keate
1873 17 march Robert William Harley
1873 2 october Sir Garnet Wolseley
1874 4 march George Berkeley
1874 17 december George French
1875 Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (I)
1875 Sir Samuel Rowe (I)
1876 Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (II)
1877 Sir Samuel Rowe (II)
1880 William Streeten
1881 Sir Samuel Rowe (III)
1881 Arthur Elibank Havelock
1884 Arthur M. Tarleton
1884 Franas Frederick Pinkett
1885 Sir Samuel Rowe (IV)
1886 James Shaw Hay (I)
1887 Sir Samuel Rowe (V)
1888 James Shaw Hay (II)
1888 28 november UK Colony
1889 Patchett
1889 J.M. Maltby
1890 Sir James Shaw Hay
1891 J.J. Crooks
1892 W.H.Q. Jones (I)
1892 Sir Francis Fleming(I)
1893 W.H.Q. Jones (II)
1893 Sir Francis Fleming(II)
1894 W.H.Q. Jones (III)
1894 Frederic Cardew (I)
1895 Caulfield (I)
1895 24 august Frederic Cardew (II)
1900 Caulfield (II)
1900 11 december Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman
1904 3 october Sir Leslie Probyn
1910 Sir Edward Mark Merewether
1916 9 march Sir Richard James Wilkinson
1922 4 may Sir Alexander Ransford Slater
1927 24 september Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne (I)
1929 Mark Young
1930 Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne (II)
1931 23 may Sir Arnold Wienholt Hodgson

1934-1961

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1934 17 july Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore
1937 21 may Sir Douglas James Jardine
1941 5 july Sir Hubert Craddock Stevenson
1947 september Sir George Beresford-Stooke
1952 december Sir Robert de Zouche Hall
1954 july Sir Milton Margai
1956 1 september Sir Maurice Henry Dorman


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