List of governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed

Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, including the garrison at Holy Island (during English occupation of the Royal Burgh):

For Scotland

 * 1295 -1296 Sir William Douglas
 * 1328 - 1333 Sir Alexander de Seton, Lord of Seton & Winchburgh
 * 1333 Sir William Keith
 * 1333 Patrick de Dunbar

For England

 * 1302: Edmund Hasting
 * 1440-?: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland

For Scotland

 * 1461 Sir Robert Lauder
 * 1473-1476: David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
 * 1478: Sir Robert Lauder (again)
 * 1482: Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes

For England

 * 1484-?: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
 * ?–1539: Sir Thomas Clifford
 * 1539–?: William Eure, 1st Baron Eure (died 1548)
 * 1553–?: John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers (died 1557)
 * 1559–1562: William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton
 * 1564-1568: Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
 * 1568-1596: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
 * 1596–1598: John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon
 * 1598-1601: Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
 * 1601–1603: John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon (2nd term)
 * c.1610: Sir James Dundas of Arniston
 * 1639-?: Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
 * 1649–: Colonel George Fenwick
 * 1660-1675: William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington
 * 1675-1686: Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
 * 1686-1688: William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington
 * 1689–1690: Philip Babington
 * 1691–1699: Richard Leveson (died 1699)
 * 1702–1707: Edmund Maine

For Great Britain (post 1707 Act of Union)

 * 1707–1711: Edmund Maine
 * 1713–1715: Sir Henry Belasyse
 * 1715–1718: Charles Wills
 * 1718–1719: George MacCartney
 * 1719–1732: Joseph Sabine
 * 1732–1733: George Wade
 * 1733–1735: Rich Russell
 * 1735–1740: Philip Honywood
 * 1740–1741: Thomas Whetham
 * 1742: James Tyrrell
 * 1742–1753: Thomas Howard
 * 1753–1765: John Guise
 * 1765–1778: Robert Monckton
 * 1778: Sir John Clavering (in fact Clavering had died in the East Indies the previous year)
 * 1778–1780: Sir John Mordaunt
 * 1780–1795: Hon. John Vaughan
 * 1795–1808: Hon. William Howe, later Viscount Howe
 * 1808–1833: Banastre Tarleton
 * 1833–1850: Sir James Bathurst

Lieutenant-Governors

 * 1702–1705: Edward Nott
 * 1705: William Dobyns
 * ?–1733: Rich Russell
 * 1733–1737: James St. Clair
 * 1737–1747: John Price
 * 1749–1764: John Barrington
 * 1765?-1767: Roderick Gwynne
 * 1767–1793: William Hill
 * 1793–1794: Gerard Lake
 * 1794–1795: Edmund Stevens
 * 1795–?1842: George Ludlow