List of colonial governors and administrators of Tobago

This article lists governors of Tobago. Governors of Tobago have been referred to by the formal titles of "Governor" and "Lieutenant-Governor". For governors of the united Trinidad and Tobago after 1889 see List of governors of Trinidad and Tobago.

Lieutenant governors of British Tobago (1764–1781)

 * Alexander Brown (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 12 November 1764 – July 1766
 * William Hill – 2 December 1766 – 16 October 1767
 * Roderick Gwynne – 16 October 1767 – 1769
 * Robert William Stewart – 1769–1771
 * William Young (Lt. Governor of Tobago) of Auchenskeoch Castle (Scotland) – 1771–1777
 * Peter Campbell (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1777–1779
 * John Graham (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1779–1781
 * George Ferguson (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1781 – 2 June 1781

Governors of French Tobago (1781–1793)

 * Philibert François Rouxel de Blanchelande – 2 June 1781 – 1784
 * Rene Maria viconte d'Arrot – 1784–1786
 * Arthur Dillon – 1786–1789
 * Antoine de Jobal de Poigny – 1789–1792
 * Philippe Marie de Marguenat – 1792–1793
 * Laroque de Mointeil – 1793

Governors of British Tobago (1793–1899)

 * William Myers – April 1793
 * George Poyntz Ricketts – 1793–1795
 * Joseph Robley – 1795 (acting)
 * William Lindsay – 1795–1796
 * James Campbell – 1796–1797
 * Stephen de Lancey – 1797–1799
 * Joseph Robley – 1799–1800 (acting)
 * Richard Master – 1800
 * Joseph Robley – 1800–1801 (acting)
 * Hugh Lyle Carmichael - 1801 – 7 November 1802 (acting)
 * Jean Joseph François de Sahuguet d'Amarzit de Laroche – 7 November 1802 – 1803
 * Louis Cesar Gabriel Berthier – 1803
 * Thomas Picton – 30 June 1803 – July 1803
 * William Johnstone – July 1803 – August 1803
 * Donald MacDonald – August 1803 – July 1804
 * John Halkett – July 1804 – 1807
 * Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet – 1807–1815
 * John Balfour – 1815–1816
 * John Campbell – 1816
 * Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson – November 1816
 * Sir Colin Campbell - February 1828 - April 1828
 * Nathaniel Blackwell – April 1828 – 1833
 * Alexander Gardner – 1833 – (Acting)
 * General Sir Lionel Smith – 1833
 * General Sir Henry Charles Darling – 1833–1845
 * Laurence Graeme – 1845–1851
 * David Robert Ross – 16 April 1851 – 26 June 1851
 * Henry Yates – 1851–1852 – (1st Time / Acting)
 * Dominick Daly September 1851 – 1852
 * Henry Yates – 1852 – February 1854 – (2nd Time / Acting)
 * Willoughby J. Shortland – February 1854 – 1856
 * James Kirk – 1856 – (Acting)
 * James Henry Keens – 1856–1857 – (Acting)
 * James Vickery Drysdale – June 1857 – April 1864
 * Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright – October 1864 – 1872
 * Herbert Taylor Ussher – 1872–1875
 * Robert William Harley – 1875–1877
 * Augustus Fredrick Gore – 1877–1880
 * Edward Laborde – 1880–1882
 * John Worrell Carrington – 1883–1884
 * Loraine Geddes Hay – 1885
 * Robert Baxter Llewellyn – 1885–1888
 * Loraine Geddes Hay – 1888–1892
 * Thomas Crossley Rayner – 1892
 * William Low – 1892–1893
 * Herbert H. Sealy – 1893 (acting)
 * William Low – 1893–1897
 * S. W. Snaggs – 1897 (acting)
 * Joseph Clanfergael O'Halloran – 1897–1899