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Regional Corporations in Trinidad and Tobago

Governors

Spanish Governors (1506 - 1797)

    * Diego Colón - 1506 - 1526
    * Rodrigo de Bastides - 1521
    * Don Antonio Sedeño - July 12 1530 - 1538
    * Don Juan Ponce de León 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 - 1700
    * Francisco Ruíz de Aguirre 1700 - 1705
    * Felipe de Artineda 1705 - 1711
    * Cristóval Félix de Guzman 1700 - 1705
    * Pedro de Varza 1700 - 1705
    * Martín Pérez de Anda y Salazar 1700 - 1705
    * Don 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 Valdez y Vara 1773 - 1776
    * Don Manuel Falques 1776 - 1779 - Military Governor
    * Martín de Salvatierra 1779 - 1784 - Civil Governor
    * Don José María Chacón 1784 - 1797

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British Governors (1797 - 1885)

    * 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
    * William Munro - 27 September 1811 - 14 June 1813
    * Sir Ralph James Woodford - 14 June 1813 - January 1828
    * J.V. Capadose (acting) - January 1828 - April 1828
    * Charles Felix Smith - April 1828 - 10 March 1829
    * Lewis Grant - 10 March 1829 - 22 April 1833
    * Sir George Fitzgerald 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
    * L. 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
    * E.E. Bushworth (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
    * G.M. Desvoeux (acting) - 1877 - 1878
    * Henry Turner Irving (2nd time) - 1878 - 1880
    * William Rowland Pyne (acting) - 1880
    * William A.G. 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 - October 9, 1885-1891