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List of Newfoundland and Labrador lieutenant-governors

This is a list of viceroys for the colony, dominion and province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Proprietary Governors (1610-1728)

Term Name Colony
1610-1614 John Guy Cuper's Cove
1615-1621 John Mason Cuper's Cove
1618-1628 Robert Hayman Bristol's Hope
1618-1620 Sir Richard Whitbourne Renews
1623-1626 Francis Tanfield South Falkland
1621-1625 Edward Wynne Ferryland
1625-1627 Sir Arthur Aston Avalon
1627-1629 George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore Avalon
1629-1632 Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore* Avalon
1634-1638 William Hill Avalon
1638-1651 Sir David Kirke Newfoundland
1653-1660 John Treworgie Newfoundland

(*)de facto governor

French Gouverneurs of Plaisance (1655-1713)

Term Name
1655 Sieur de Kéréon
1660 Nicolas Gargot
1662-1663 Thalour du Perron
1664-1667 Bellot dit Lafontaine
1667-1670 La Palme
1670-1684 La Poippe
1685-1690 Antoine Parat
1690-1691 Louis de Pastour de Costebelle
1690-1701 Jacques-François de Mombeton de Brouillan
1697-1702 Joseph de Monic
1702-1706 Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
1706-1713 Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle

Commodore-Governors (1729-1825)

Term Name
1729-1730 Henry Osborn
1731-1731 George Clinton
1732-1732 Edward Falkingham
1733-1734 Robert MacCarty
1734-1734 Viscount Muskerry
1735-1737 FitzRoy Henry Lee
1738-1738 Philip Vanbrugh
1739-1740 Henry Medley
1740-1740 George Graham
1741-1741 Thomas Smith
1742-1742 John Byng
1743-1743 Thomas Smith
1744-1744 Charles Hardy
1745-1745 Richard Edwards
1746-1747 (Vacant)
1748-1748 Charles Watson
1749-1749 George Brydges Rodney
1750-1752 Francis William Drake
1753-1754 Hugh Bonfoy
1755-1756 Richard Dorrill
1757-1759 Richard Edwards
1760-1760 James Webb
1761-1763 Thomas Graves (later Baron Graves)
1764-1768 Sir Hugh Palliser
1769-1771 John Byron
1772-1774 Molyneux Shuldham
1775-1775 Richard Duff
1776-1778 John Montagu
1779-1781 Richard Edwards
1782-1785 John Campbell
1786-1788 John Elliott
1789-1791 Mark Milbanke
1792-1793 Sir Richard King
1794-1796 Sir James Wallace
1797-1799 William Waldegrave
1800-1801 Sir Charles Morice Pole
1802-1803 James Gambier
1804-1806 Sir Erasmus Gower
1807-1809 John Holloway
1810-1812 Sir John Thomas Duckworth
1813-1816 Sir Richard Godwin Keats
1817-1818 Francis Pickmore
1818-1825 Sir Charles Hamilton

Civil Governors (1825-1855)

Term Name
1825-1834 Sir Thomas John Cochrane
1834-1841 Sir Henry Prescott
1841-1846 Sir John Harvey
1846-1847 John Law
1847-1852 Sir John Gaspard LeMerchant
1852-1855 Ker Baillie Hamilton

For Prime Ministers since the establishment of responsible government in 1855 see List of Newfoundland Prime Ministers.

Colonial and Dominion Governors (1855-1934)

Term Name
1855-1857 Sir Charles Henry Darling
1857-1864 Sir Alexander Bannerman
1864-1869 Sir Anthony Musgrave
1869-1876 Sir Stephen John Hill
1876-1881 Sir John Hawley Glover
1881-1883 Sir Henry F. B. Maxse
1883-1885 Sir John Hawley Glover
1886-1887 Sir George William Desvoeux
1887-1889 Sir Henry Arthur Blake
1889-1895 Sir John Terence N. O'Brien
1895-1898 Sir Herbert Harley Murray
1898-1901 Sir Henry Edward McCallum
1901-1904 Sir Cavendish Boyle
1904-1909 Sir William Macgregor
1909-1913 Sir Ralph Champneys Williams
1913-1917 Sir Walter Edward Davidson
1917-1922 Sir Charles A. Harris
1922-1928 Sir William L. Allardyce
1928-1932 Sir John Middleton
1933-1934 Sir David Murray Anderson

Commission Governors (1934-1949)

Term Name
1934-1935 Sir David Murray Anderson
1936-1946 Sir Humphrey T. Walwyn
1946-1949 Sir Gordon MacDonald

Post-Confederation Lieutenant-Governors (1949-present)

Term Name
1949-1949 Sir Albert Walsh
1949-1957 Sir Leonard Cecil Outerbridge
1957-1963 Campbell Leonard Macpherson
1963-1969 Fabian O'Dea
1969-1974 Ewart John Arlington Harnum
1974-1981 Gordon Arnaud Winter
1981-1986 William Anthony Paddon
1986-1991 James Aloysius McGrath
1991-1997 Frederick Russell
1997-2002 Dr. Arthur Maxwell House
2002- Edward Roberts


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