List of Governors of Portsmouth - Governors of Portsmouth

Governors of Portsmouth

• 1544–1545: Sir Anthony Knyset
• 1545: John Chadderton (Captain of Portsmouth)
• 1545: William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
• 1551/2–1554: Richard Wingfield
• 1554–1559: Lord Chidiock Paulet (Captain)
• 1559–1571: Sir Adrian Poynings
• 1571–1593: Henry Radclyffe, 4th Earl of Sussex (Warden and Captain)
• 1593/4–1606: Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy
• 1606–1609: Sir Francis Vere
• 1609–1630: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
• 1630–1638: Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon
• 1638/9–1642: George Goring, 1st Baron Goring
• 1643: Sir William Lewis
• 1644: William Jephson
• 1645: Richard Norton
• 1648: Robert Legg
• 1648: George Goring, 1st Baron Goring
• 1649: John Feilder
• 1649: John Desborough
• 1649–1659: Nathaniel Whetham
• 1660–1661: Richard Norton
• 1661–1673: Prince James, Duke of York
• 1673-1682: George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth
• 1682-1687: Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough
• 1687-1689: James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
• 1690-1694: Thomas Tollemache
• 1694-1712: Thomas Erle
• 1712-1714: William North, 6th Baron North and Grey
• 1714-1718: Thomas Erle
• 1718-1719: Charles Wills
• 1719-1730: George MacCartney
• 1730-1737: John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
• 1737-1740: Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
• 1740-1752: Philip Honywood
• 1752-1759: Henry Hawley
• 1759-1773: James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley
• 1773-1778: Edward Harvey
• 1778-1782: Robert Monckton
• 1782-1794: Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
• 1794-1810: Sir William Pitt
• 1810-1811: Hon. Henry Fox
• 1811-1826: William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt
• 1826-1827: Sir William Keppel
• 1828: Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
• 1828: Major-General Sir Colin Campbell KCB (last Governor)