List of governors of Trinidad



This article lists governors of Trinidad.

Spanish governors (1506–1797)

 * Diego Colón – 1506 – 1526
 * Rodrigo de Bastidas – 1520
 * Don Antonio Sedeño – July 12, 1530 – 1538
 * Don Juan Ponce de León II 1571 – 1591
 * Antonio de Berrío 1580 – 1597
 * Fernando de Berrío 1597 – 1612
 * Don Diego Palomeque de Acuña 1615 – 1618
 * Fernando de Berrío 1619 – 1622
 * Don Luis de Monsalves 1624 – 1631
 * Cristóval de Aranda 1631 – 1636
 * Diego López de Escobar 1636 – 1641
 * Don Martín de Mendoza y Berrío 1642 – 1657
 * Juan de Viedma 1657 – 1664
 * José de Aspe y Zuñiga 1665 – 1668
 * Diego Ximenes de Aldana 1670 – 1677
 * Tiburcio de Aspe y Zúñiga 1678 – 1682
 * Diego Suárez Ponce de León 1682 – 1688
 * Sebastian de Roseta 1688 – 1690
 * Francisco de Ménez 1692 – 1698
 * José de León Echales 1699
 * Francisco Ruíz de Aguirre 1700 – 1705
 * Felipe de Artineda 1705 – 1711
 * Cristóbal Félix de Guzmán 1711 – 1716
 * Pedro de Yarza 1716 – 1721
 * Juan de Orvay (acting) 1721
 * Martín Pérez de Anda y Salazar 1721 – 1726
 * Agustín de Arredonda 1726 – 1731
 * Bartholomé de Aldunate y Rada 1731 – 1732
 * Estevan Simón de Linán y Vera 1734 – 1746
 * Juan José Salcedo 1746 – 1752
 * Francisco Nanclares 1752 – 1757
 * Pedro de La Moneda 1757 – 1760
 * Jacinto San Juan 1760 – 1762
 * José Antonio Gil 1762 – 1766
 * José de Flores 1766 – 1773
 * Juan de Dios Valdés y Yarza 1773 – 1776
 * Don Manuel Falques 1776 – 1779 – Military Governor
 * Martín de Salaverría 1779 – 1783 – Civil Governor
 * Juan Francisco Machado 1781 – 1784
 * José María Chacón 1784 – 1797

British governors (1797–1889)

 * Sir Ralph Abercromby – 18 February 1797 – February 1797
 * Thomas Picton Feb 1797 – Feb 1803  (military governor to 1801)
 * Commission (William Fullarton, Samuel Hood, Thomas Picton) – February 1803 – July 1804
 * Sir Thomas Hislop – July 1804 – 27 September 1811
 * Hector William Munro – 27 September 1811 – 14 June 1813
 * Sir Ralph Woodford – 14 June 1813 – January 1828
 * Henry Capadose (acting) – January 1828 – April 1828
 * Charles Felix Smith – April 1828 – 10 March 1829
 * Lewis Grant – 10 March 1829 – 22 April 1833
 * Sir George Hill – 22 April 1833 – 9 March 1839
 * John Alexander Mein (acting) – 9 March 1839 – April 1840
 * Henry George Macleod – April 1840 – 1846
 * George Francis Robert Harris, 3rd Baron Harris – 1846 – 1854
 * Legendre Charles Bourchier (acting) – 1854
 * Sir Charles Elliot – 10 March 1854 – 1856
 * B. Brooks (acting) – 1856 – 1857
 * Robert William Keate – 26 January 1857 – 1864
 * ? Thompson (acting) -1864
 * Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton – 6 September 1864 – 1866
 * Edward Everard Rushworth (acting) – 1866
 * Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon – 7 November 1866 – 1870
 * James Robert Longden – 25 June 1870 – 1874
 * William Wellington Cairns – 2 May 1874 – 1874
 * John Scott Bushe (1st time) (acting) – 1874
 * Henry Turner Irving (1st time) – 20 November 1874 – 1876
 * John Scott Bushe (2nd time) (acting) – 1876 – 1877
 * William Des Vœux (acting) – 1877 – 1878
 * Henry Turner Irving (2nd time) – 1878 – 1880
 * William Rowland Pyne (acting) – 1880
 * William Alexander George Young (acting) – 1880
 * Sir Sanford Freeling – 2 November 1880 – 1884
 * John Scott Bushe (3rd time) (acting) – 1884
 * Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee (acting) – 19 June 1884 – 8 August 1884
 * John Scott Bushe (4th time) (acting) – 1884 – 1885
 * Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock – 24 January 1885 – 1885
 * David Wilson (acting) 1885
 * Sir William Robinson – 9 October 1885 – 1889 (continued as Governor of Trinidad and Tobago until 1891)