White Kittitians and Nevisians

White Kittitians and Nevisians are people of Saint Kitts and Nevis of European descent. Approximately 2.2% of the population of Saint Kitts and Nevis was European as of 2001.

History
The first Europeans to visit the islands were the Spanish. A substantial portion of the white population in Saint Kitts and Nevis claims descent from Irish and Scottish prisoners exiled to the islands during the rule of Oliver Cromwell. By 1805, 1,500 whites lived on the island of Saint Kitts and 1,300 lived on Nevis. The English were the first Europeans to colonize St. Kitts. When Europeans visited the island of Nevis, the island was mostly inhabited by indigenous Caribs and Arawaks.

Notable people

 * William Skinner (1700–1780), Chief Royal Engineer
 * Rawlins Lowndes (1721–1800), Governor of South Carolina
 * Daniel Roberdeau (1727–1795), signatory of the Articles of Confederation
 * Thomas Mathews (1742–1812), General of the American Revolutionary War
 * Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), Founding Father of the United States
 * Frances Nelson (1758–1831), wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson
 * Thomas Cottle (1761–1828), lawyer and planter
 * Joseph Gerrald (1761–1828), political reformer
 * Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), Chief Justice of New South Wales
 * William Henry Smith (1826–1890), Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
 * Henry Spencer Berkeley (1851–1918), Attorney General of Fiji
 * James Alfred Dunn Podd (1855–1886), Baptist preacher
 * Arthur Anslyn MBE (1944–2017), marine expert
 * George Astaphan (1946–2006), physician
 * Cloey Uddenberg (born 2002), footballer