List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century

This is a list of territorial governors in the 18th century (1701–1800) AD, such as the administrators of colonies, protectorates, and other dependencies. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed.

A dependent territory is normally does not have full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state yet remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area. The administrators of uninhabited territories are excluded.

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austro-Hungarian colonies

Belgium

Belgium

Belgian colonial empire

Britain

Kingdom of Great Britain

British colonial empire, English overseas possessions

Monarchs – Prime ministers

Monarchs

Prime ministers

Americas

North America

Bermuda

Governors

Benjamin Bennett, Governor (1701–1713)

Henry Pulleine, Governor (1713–1718)

Benjamin Bennett, Governor (1718–1722)

John Hope, Governor (1722–1727)

John Trimingham, Governor (1727–1728)

John Pitt, Governor (1728–1737)

Andrew Auchinleck, Governor (1737–1738)

Alured Popple, Governor (1738–1744)

Francis Jones, Governor (1744–1747)

William Popple, Governor (1747–1751)

Francis Jones, Governor (1751–1755)

William Popple, Governor (1755–1763)

Francis Jones, Governor (1763–1764)

George James Bruere, Governor (1764–1780)

Thomas Jones, Governor (1780)

George Bruere the younger, Governor (1780–1781)

William Browne, Governor (1782–1788)

Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant governor (1788–1794)

James Crawford, Governor (1794–1796)

Henry Tucker, Governor (1796)

William Campbell, Governor (1796)

Henry Tucker, Governor (1796–1798)

George Beckwith, Governor (1798–1803)

Connecticut Colony

Governors

Fitz-John Winthrop, Governor (1698–1707)

Gurdon Saltonstall, Governor (1708–1724)

Joseph Talcott, Governor (1724–1741)

Jonathan Law, Governor (1741–1750)

Roger Wolcott, Governor (1750–1754)

Thomas Fitch, Governor (1754–1766)

William Pitkin, Governor (1766–1769)

Jonathan Trumbull, Governor (1769–1776)

Province of Carolina

Governors

James Moore, Governor (1700–1703)

Nathaniel Johnson, Governor (1703–1709)

Edward Tynte, Governor (1709–1710)

Robert Gibbes, Governor (1710–1712)

Charles Craven, Governor (1712)

Deputy governors, for the northern Carolina

Henderson Walker, Deputy governor (1699–1703)

Robert Daniell, Deputy governor (1703–1705)

Thomas Cary, Deputy governor (1705–1706)

William Glover, Acting Deputy governor (1706–1708)

Thomas Cary, Deputy governor (1708–1711)

Province of North Carolina

Governors

Edward Hyde, Governor (1712)

Province of South Carolina

Governors

Charles Craven, Governor (1712–1716)

Province of Maryland

Governors

Nathaniel Blakiston, Governor (1699–1702)

Thomas Tench, Governor (1702–1704)

Phillip Calvert, Governor (1704–1709)

Jesse Wharton, Governor (1709–1714)

John Hart, Governor (1714–1715)

John Seymour, Governor (1715–1720)

Thomas Brooke, Jr., Governor (1720)

William Joseph, Governor (1720–1727)

Thomas Lawrence, Governor (1727–1731)

Samuel Ogle, Governor (1731–1732)

Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, Governor (1732–1733)

Samuel Ogle, Governor (1733–1742)

Thomas Bladen, Governor (1742–1746/47 )

Samuel Ogle, Governor (1746/47–1752 )

Captain Charles Calvert, Governor (1752–1753)

Horatio Sharpe, Governor (1753–1769)

Robert Eden, Governor (1769–1776)

Province of Massachusetts Bay

Governors

William Stoughton, Acting Governor (1700–1701)

Governor's Council (1701–1702)

Joseph Dudley, Governor (1702–1715)

vacant

William Tailer, Governor (1711–1715)

Governor's Council (1715)

Joseph Dudley, Governor (1715)

William Tailer, Acting Governor (1715–1716)

Samuel Shute, Governor (1716–1723)

William Dummer, Acting Governor (1723–1728)

William Burnet, Governor (1728–1729)

William Dummer, Acting Governor (1729–1730)

William Tailer, Acting Governor (1730)

Jonathan Belcher, Governor (1730–1741)

vacant

Spencer Phips, Governor (1732–1757)

William Shirley, Governor (1741–1749)

Spencer Phips, Acting Governor (1749–1753)

William Shirley, Governor (1753–1756)

Spencer Phips, Acting Governor (1756–1757)

Governor's Council (1757)

Thomas Pownall, Governor (1757–1760)

Thomas Hutchinson, Acting Governor (1760)

Francis Bernard, Governor (1760–1769)

Thomas Hutchinson, Acting Governor (1769–1771), Governor (1771–1774)

Andrew Oliver, Governor (1771–1774)

vacant

Thomas Gage, Governor (1774–1775)

Thomas Oliver, Governor (1774–1776)

Newfoundland Colony

Lieutenant Governors of Placentia

John Moody (governor), Governor (1714–1717)

Martin Purcell (governor), Governor (1717)

Samuel Gledhill, Governor (1717–1729)

Commodore governors

Henry Osborn, Commodore Governor (1729–1730)

George Clinton, Commodore Governor (1731)

Edward Falkingham, Commodore Governor (1732)

The Viscount Muskerry, Commodore Governor (1733–1734)

FitzRoy Henry Lee, Commodore Governor (1735–1737)

Philip Vanbrugh, Commodore Governor (1738)

Henry Medley, Commodore Governor (1739–1740)

Thomas Smith, Commodore Governor (1741)

John Byng, Commodore Governor (1742)

Thomas Smith, Commodore Governor (1743)

Charles Hardy, Commodore Governor (1744)

Richard Edwards, Commodore Governor (1745)

James Douglas, Commodore Governor (1746)

John Bradstreet, Commodore Governor (1747)

Charles Watson, Commodore Governor (1748)

George Brydges Rodney, Commodore Governor (1749)

Francis William Drake, Commodore Governor (1750–1752)

Hugh Bonfoy, Commodore Governor (1753–1754)

Richard Dorrill, Commodore Governor (1755–1756)

Richard Edwards, Commodore Governor (1757–1759)

James Webb, Commodore Governor (1760)

Thomas Graves, Commodore Governor (1761–1763)

Hugh Palliser, Commodore Governor (1764–1768)

John Byron, Commodore Governor (1769–1771)

Molyneux Shuldham, Commodore Governor (1772–1774)

Robert Duff, Commodore Governor (1775)

John Montagu, Commodore Governor (1776–1778)

Richard Edwards, Commodore Governor (1779–1781)

John Campbell, Commodore Governor (1782–1785)

John Elliot, Commodore Governor (1786–1788)

Mark Milbanke, Commodore Governor (1789–1791)

Richard King, Commodore Governor (1792–1793)

James Wallace, Commodore Governor (1794–1796)

William Waldegrave, Commodore Governor (1797–1799)

Charles Pole, Commodore Governor (1800–1801)

Province of New Hampshire

Governors

Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, Governor (1697–1701/2)

Joseph Dudley, Governor (1702–1716)

Samuel Shute, Governor (1716–1723)

William Burnet, Governor (1729)

Jonathan Belcher, Governor (1729–1741)

Benning Wentworth, Governor (1741–1767)

John Temple, Governor (1762–1774)

John Wentworth, Governor (1766–1775)

Province of New Jersey

Governors

Andrew Hamilton, Governor (1699–1702)

Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Governors

Samuel Cranston, Governor (1698–1727)

Joseph Jenckes, Governor (1727–1732)

William Wanton, Governor (1732–1733)

John Wanton, Governor (1734–1740)

Richard Ward, Governor (1740–1743)

William Greene, Governor (1743–1745)

Gideon Wanton, Governor (1745–1746)

William Greene, Governor (1746–1747)

Gideon Wanton, Governor (1747–1748)

William Greene, Governor (1748–1755)

Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1755–1757)

William Greene, Governor (1757–1758)

Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1758–1762)

Samuel Ward, Governor (1762–1763)

Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1763–1765)

Samuel Ward, Governor (1765–1767)

Stephen Hopkins, Governor (1767–1768)

Josias Lyndon, Governor (1768–1769)

Joseph Wanton, Governor (1769–1775)

Nicholas Cooke, Governor (1775–1778)

Colony of Virginia

Governors

George Hamilton, Governor (1698–1737)

Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant Governor (1698–1705)

Edward Nott, Lieutenant Governor (1705–1706)

Edmund Jenings, Acting Governor (1706–1710)

General Robert Hunter, Lieutenant Governor (1707)

Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor (1710–1722)

Hugh Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor (1722–1726)

Robert Carter, President of the Council (1726–1727)

William Gooch, Lieutenant Governor (1727–1740)

Willem Anne van Keppel, Governor (1737–1754)

James Blair, Acting Governor (1740–1741)

William Gooch, Lieutenant Governor (1741–1749)

Thomas Lee, Acting Governor (1749–1750)

Lewis Burwell I/II, Acting Governor (1750–1751)

Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor (1751–1756)

John Campbell, Governor (1756–1759)

Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor (1756–1758)

Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor (1758–1768)

Jeffery Amherst, Governor (1759–1768)

John Blair, Sr., Acting Governor (1768)

Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Governor (1768–1770)

William Nelson, Acting Governor (1770–1771)

John Murray, Governor (1771–1775)

Caribbean

Colony of the Bahamas

Governors

Elias Haskett, Governor (1700–1701)

Ellis Lightfoot, Governor (1701–1703)

Edward Birch, Governor (1704)

without British rule: see Republic of Pirates

Woodes Rogers, Governor (1718–1721)

George Phenney, Governor (1721–1728)

Woodes Rogers, Governor (1729–1732)

Richard Fitzwilliam, Acting Governor (1734–1738)

John Tinker, Governor (1741–1758)

John Gambier, Acting Governor (1758–1760)

William Shirley, Governor (1760–1775)

Montfort Browne, Governor (1775–1776)

John Gambier, Acting Governor (1776–1778)

John Robert Maxwell, Governor (1780–1782)

Spanish occupation (1782–1783)

Andrew de Vau, Acting Governor (1783)

John Robert Maxwell, Governor (1783–1784)

James Edward Powell, Lieutenant governor (1784–1786)

John Brown, Acting Governor (1786–1787)

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Governor (1787–1796)

Robert Hunt, Acting Governor (1796–1797)

John Forbes, Lieutenant governor (1797)

William Dowdeswell, Governor (1797–1801)

Barbados

Governors

Ralph Grey, Governor (1697–1701)

John Farmer, Acting Governor (1701–1703)

Bevil Granville, Governor (1703–1706)

Mitford Crow, Governor (1707–1710)

George Lillington, Acting Governor (1710–1711)

Robert Lowther, Governor (1711–1720)

William Sharpe, Acting for Lowther (1714–1715)

John Frere, Acting Governor (1720–1721)

Samuel Cox, Acting Governor (1721–1722)

Henry Worsley, Governor (1722–1727)

Thomas Catesby Paget, Governor (1727–1731)

James Dotin, Acting Governor (1731)

Walter Chetwynd, Governor (1731–1732)

Emanuel Howe, Governor (1733–1735)

James Dotin, Acting Governor (1735–1737)

Orlando Bridgeman, Governor (1737–1738)

Humphrey Howarth, Governor (1738)

Thomas Gage, Governor (1738–1739)

Robert Byng, Governor (1739–1740)

James Dotin, Acting Governor (1740)

Thomas Robinson, Governor (1742–1747)

Henry Grenville, Governor (1747–1756)

Charles Pinfold, Governor (1756–1766)

Samuel Rous, Acting Governor (1766–1768)

William Spry, Governor (1768–1772)

Samuel Rous, Acting Governor (1772)

Edward Hay, Governor (1772–1779)

John Dotin, Acting Governor (1779–1780)

James Cunninghame, Governor (1780–1782)

John Dotin, Acting Governor (1783–1784)

David Parry, Governor (1784–1793)

William Bishop, Acting Governor (1793–1794)

George Poyntz Ricketts, Governor (1794–1800)

William Bishop, Acting Governor (1800–1801)

Cayman Islands, overseas territory

Chief magistrates

William Cartwright, Chief magistrate (1750–1776)

William Bodden, Chief magistrate (1776–1823)

British Grenada

Governors

George Scott, Governor (1762–1764)

Colony of Jamaica

Governors

William Beeston, Acting Governor (1693–1699), Governor (1699–1702)

William Selwyn, Governor (1702)

Peter Beckford, Acting Governor (1702)

Thomas Handasyde, Acting Governor (1702–1704), Governor (1704–1711)

Archibald Hamilton, Governor (1711–1716)

Peter Heywood, Governor (1716–1718)

Nicholas Lawes, Governor (1718–1722)

Henry Bentinck, Governor (1722–1726)

John Ayscough, Acting Governor (1726–1728)

Robert Hunter, Governor (1728–1734)

John Ayscough, Acting Governor (1734–1735)

John Gregory, Acting Governor (1735)

Henry Cunningham, Governor (1735–1736)

John Gregory, Acting Governor (1736–1738)

Edward Trelawny, Governor (1738–1752)

Charles Knowles, Governor (1752–1756)

Henry Moore, Acting Governor (1756)

George Haldane, Governor (1756–1759)

Henry Moore, Acting Governor (1759–1762)

William Henry Lyttelton, Governor (1762–1766)

Roger Hope Elletson, Governor (1766–1767)

William Trelawny, Governor (1767–1772)

John Dalling, Acting Governor (1772–1774)

Basil Keith, Governor (1774–1777)

John Dalling, Governor (1777–1781)

Archibald Campbell, Acting Governor (1781–1783), Governor (1783–1784)

Alured Clarke, Governor (1784–1790)

Thomas Howard, Governor (1790–1791)

Adam Williamson, Acting Governor (1791–1795)

Alexander Lindsay, Governor (1795–1801)

South America

Falkland Islands

Governors

John McBride, HMS Jason, Governor (1767–1768)

Rayner, Governor (1768–1769)

Anthony Hunt, HMS Tamar, Governor (1769–1770)

George Farmer, Governor (1770)

John Burr, HMS Hound, Governor (1771–1772)

Samuel Wittewrong Clayton, Governor (1773–1776)

Asia

Ceylon – Frederick North, Governor of Ceylon (1798–1805)

Madras – Edward Clive, Governor of Madras (1798–1803)

Australia

New South Wales –

John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales (1795–1800)

Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales (1800–1806)

British isles

Guernsey, Crown dependency

British monarchs are the Dukes of Normandy

Governors

Charles Churchill, Governor (1706–1714)

Giles Spencer, Governor (1711)

Daniel Harvey, Governor (1715–1732)

Lewis Dollon, Governor (1726)

George Cholmondeley, Governor (1732–1733)

Richard Sutton, Governor (1733–1737)

François de La Rochefoucauld, Governor (1737–1739)

Thomas Fermor, Governor (1739–1742)

Algernon Seymour, Governor (1742–1750)

John Ligonier, Governor (1750–1752)

John West, Governor (1752–1766)

Richard Lyttelton, Governor (1766–1770)

Jeffery Amherst, Governor (1770–1797)

Charles Grey, Governor (1797–1807)

Bailiffs

Edmund Andros, Bailiff (1674–1713)

Jean de Sausmarez, Bailiff (1714–1728)

Josué Le Marchant, Bailiff (1728–1751)

Eleazar Le Marchant, Bailiff (1752–1758)

Samuel Bonamy, Bailiff (1758–1771)

William Le Marchant, Bailiff (1771–1800)

Robert Porrett Le Marchant, Bailiff (1800–1810)

Kingdom of Ireland, effectively a client state of England (to 1706) / Great Britain (1707–1800)

British monarchs are the Monarchs of Ireland

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

The Earl of Rochester: 28 December 1700

The Duke of Ormonde: 19 February 1703

The Earl of Pembroke: 30 April 1707

The Earl of Wharton: 4 December 1708

The Duke of Ormonde: 26 October 1710

The Duke of Shrewsbury: 22 September 1713

The Earl of Sunderland: 21 September 1714

Lords Justices: 6 September 1715

The Viscount Townshend: 13 February 1717

The Duke of Bolton: 27 April 1717

The Duke of Grafton: 18 June 1720

The Lord Carteret: 6 May 1724

The Duke of Dorset: 23 June 1730

The Duke of Devonshire: 9 April 1737

The Earl of Chesterfield: 8 January 1745

The Earl of Harrington: 15 November 1746

The Duke of Dorset: 15 December 1750

The Duke of Devonshire: 2 April 1755

The Duke of Bedford: 3 January 1757

The Earl of Halifax: 3 April 1761

The Earl of Northumberland: 27 April 1763

The Viscount Weymouth: 5 June 1765

The Earl of Hertford: 7 August 1765

The Earl of Bristol: 16 October 1766 (did not assume office)

The Viscount Townshend: 19 August 1767

The Earl Harcourt: 29 October 1772

The Earl of Buckinghamshire: 7 December 1776

The Earl of Carlisle: 29 November 1780

The Duke of Portland: 8 April 1782

The Earl Temple: 15 August 1782

The Earl of Northington: 3 May 1783

The Duke of Rutland: 12 February 1784

The Marquess of Buckingham: 27 October 1787

The Earl of Westmorland: 24 October 1789

The Earl FitzWilliam: 13 December 1794

The Earl Camden: 13 March 1795

The Marquess Cornwallis: 14 June 1798

Mediterranean

Gibraltar

Governors

Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, Governor (1704–1704)

Henry Nugent, Governor (1704)

John Shrimpton, Governor (1704–1707)

Roger Elliott, Governor (1707–1711)

Thomas Stanwix, Governor (1711–1713)

David Colyear, Governor (1713–1720)

Richard Kane, Governor (1720–1727)

Jasper Clayton, Governor (1727–1730)

Joseph Sabine, Governor (1730–1739)

Francis Columbine, Governor (1739–1740)

William Hargrave, Governor (1740–1748/9)

Humphrey Bland, Governor (1748/9–1754)

Thomas Fowke, Governor (1754–1756)

James O'Hara, Governor (1756–1757)

William Home, Governor (1757–1761)

John Toovey, Acting Governor (1761)

John Parslow, Acting Governor (1761)

Edward Cornwallis, Governor (1761–1776)

John Irwin, Acting Governor (1765–1767)

Robert Boyd, Acting Governor (1776–1777)

George Augustus Eliott, Governor (1777–1790)

Robert Boyd, Acting Governor (1790)

Robert Boyd, Governor (1790–1794)

Henry Clinton, Governor (1794–1795)

Charles Rainsford, Governor (1794–1795)

Charles O'Hara, Governor (1795–1802)

Malta Protectorate

Alexander Ball, Civil Commissioner of Malta (1799–1801)

Courland and Semigallia

Duchy of Courland and Semigallia

Couronian colonies

Denmark-Norway

Danish West India Company, Denmark–Norway

Danish colonial empire

Monarchs

Danish West Indies

Governors of St. Thomas and St. John

Johan Lorensen (1693–1702)

Claus Hansen, Governor (1702–1706)

Joachim Melchior von Holten, Governor (1706–1708)

Diderich Mogensen, Interim Governor (1708–1710)

Mikkel Knudsen Crone, Governor (1710–1716)

Erich Bredal, Governor (1716–1724)

Friderich Moth, Governor (1724–1727)

Hendrich von Suhm, Governor (1727–1733)

Phillip Gardelin, Governor (1733–1736)

Friderich Moth, Governor (1736–1744)

Jacob Schönemann, Governor (1740–1744)

Christian von Schweder, Governor (1744–1747)

Christian Suhm, Governor (1747–1758)

Christian Leberecht von Prøck, Governor general (1756–1766)

Governors of St. Croix

Friderich Moth, Governor of St. Croix (1735–1747)

Gregers Høg Nissen, Chief ad interim of St. Croix (1736–1744)

Paul Lindemark, Chief ad interim of St.