Jamaica (01)

1514-1962 British Rule


1514-1655

YEAR DATE EVENT
1510 Spanish colony

1655-1905









YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1655 11 may UK colony
1693 march Sir William Beeston
1702 january William Selwyn
1702 Peter Beckford
1702 Thomas Handasyde
1711 Archibald Hamilton
1716 Peter Heywood
1718 Sir Nicholas Lawes
1722 Henry Bentnick, Duke of Portland
1726 4 july John Ayscough (I)
1728 Robert Hunter
1734 march John Ayscough (II)
1735 John Gregory (I)
1735 Henry Cunninghame
1736 John Gregory (II)
1738 Edward Trelawny
1752 Charles Knowles
1756 janaury Sir Henry Moore (I)
1756 april George Haldane
1759 november Sir Henry Moore (II)
1762 William Henry Lyttleton
1766 Roger Hope Elletson
1767 Sir William Trelawney
1772 december John Dalling (I)
1774 Sir Basil Keith
1777 John Dalling (II)
1781 Archibald Campbell
1784 Alured Clarke
1790 Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham
1791 20 november Sir Adam Williamson
1795 Alexander Lindsay, Earl of Balcares
1801 Sir George Nugent
1806 Sir Eyre Coote
1808 William Montague, Duke of Manchester (I)
1811 Edward Morrison
1813 William Montague, Duke of Manchester (II)
1821 Sir John Keane
1829 Somerset Lowry-Corry, Earl of Belmore
1832 George Cuthbert (I)
1832 Constantine Henry Philips, Earl of Mulgrave
1834 Sir Amos Norcot
1834 George Cuthbert (II)
1834 Howe Peter Browne, Marquess of Sligo
1836 Sir Lionel Smith
1839 Charles Theophilus Metcalfe
1842 James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine
1846 George Henry Frederick Berkeley
1847 Sir Charles Edward Grey
1853 Sir Henry Barkly
1856 Edward Wells Bell
1857 Charles Henry Darling
1862 Edward John Eyre
1865 12 december Sir Henry Knight Storks
1866 16 july Sir John Peter Grant
1874 W.A. Young
1874 Sir William Grey
1877 january Edward Everard Rushworth
1877 january Mann
1877 january Sir Anthony Musgrave (I)
1883 Somerset M. Wiseman Clarke
1883 Gamble
1883 Sir Henry Wylie Norman
1889 William Clive Justice
1889 Sir Henry Arthur Blake
1898 Hallowes
1898 Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming
1904 Sydney Haldane Olivier (I)
1904 30 september Sir James Alexander Swettenham

1905-1962




YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1905
1907 16 may Sydney Haldane Olivier (II)
1913 january Philip Clark Cork
1913 7 march Sir William Henry Manning
1918 11 may Robert Johnstone
1918 11 june Sir Leslie Probyn
1924 Herbert Bryan (I)
1924 29 september Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson
1925 Sir Herbert Bryan (II)
1925 october A.S. Jeef (I)
1926 26 april Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
1932 9 november A.S. Jeef (II)
1932 21 november Sir Alexander Ransford Slater
1934 april A.S. Jeef (III)
1934 24 october Sir Edward Brandis Denham
1938 2 june Charles Campbell Woolley
1938 19 august Sir Arthur Frederick Richards
1943 july William Henry Flinn
1943 29 septemebr Sir John Huggins
1951 7 april Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot
1953 5 may Sir William Bustamante
1955 2 february Norman Washington Manley
1957 18 december

1958-1962

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1958 3 january West Indies Federation Sir Grantley Herbert Adams Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, Baron Hailes

1962-

YEAR DATE EVENT KING PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1962 31 may UK colony Sir William Bustamante Sir Kenneth Blackburne


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