List of Colonial Governors in 1816 - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

• Alderney – John Le Mesurier III, Governor of Alderney (1803–1825), Pierre Gauvin, Judge of Alderney (1807–1836)
  • Sark – Pierre Le Pelley II, Seigneur of Sark (1778–1820)
• Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat –
  1. Part of Leeward Islands
  2. George William Ramsay, Governor of Antigua (1816–1819)
• Assiniboia –
  1. Colin Robertson, Governor of Assiniboia (1815–1816)
  2. Robert Semple, Governor of Assiniboia (1816)
  3. Alexander MacDonell, Governor of Assiniboia (1816–1822)
• Australia – see New South Wales
• The Bahamas – Charles Cameron, Governor of the Bahamas (1804–1820)
• Barbados – Sir James Leith, Governor of Barbados (1815–1816)
• Berbice – Henry William Bentinck, Lieutenant Governor of Berbice (1814–1820)
• Bermuda – Sir James Cockburn, Governor of Bermuda (1811–1819)
• British Columbia – John Haldane, Governor of British Columbia (1813–1823)
• British North America –
  1. vacant (1815–1816)
  2. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor General of British North America (1816–1818)
  • Cape Breton Island –
    1. Hugh Swayne, Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton Island (1813–1816)
    2. George Robert Ainslie, Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton Island (1816–1820)
  • Lower Canada –
    1. Sir Gordon Drummond, Acting Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada (1815–1816)
    2. John Wilson, Acting Governor of Lower Canada (1816)
    3. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor of Lower Canada (1816–1818)
  • New Brunswick –
    • Lieutenant Governor – Thomas Carleton, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1786–1817)
    • Administrator (acting for Carleton) –
      1. George Stracey Smith – Administrator of New Brunswick (1814–1816)
      2. Harris Hailes – Administrator of New Brunswick (1816–1817, Lieutenant Governor 1817–1823)
  • Nova Scotia –
    1. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor of Nova Scotia (1811–1816)
    2. George Stracey Smyth, Acting Governor of Nova Scotia (1816)
    3. George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, Governor of Nova Scotia (1816–1820)
  • Prince Edward Island – Charles Douglass Smith, Governor of Prince Edward Island (1812–1824)
  • Upper Canada – Francis Gore, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (1815–1817)
• Cayman Islands – William Bodden, Chief Magistrate of the Cayman Islands (1776–1823)
• Ceylon – Robert Brownrigg, Governor of Ceylon (1812–1820)
• Demerara-Essequibo – John Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Demerara-Essequibo (1813–1824)
• Dominica – Charles William Maxwell, Governor of Dominica (1816–1819)
• The Gambia – Alexander Grant, Commandant of The Gambia (1815–1829)
• Gibraltar – Sir George Don, Governor of Gibraltar (1814–1821)
• Gold Coast – Edward White, Governor of the Committee of Merchants (1807–April 21, 1816); Joseph Dawson (to 1817)
• Grenada – George Paterson, Acting Lieutenant Governor of Grenada (1815–1816); Phineas Riall, Lieutenant Governor of Grenada (to 1823), Peter de Havilland, Bailiff of Grenada (1810–1821)
• Guadeloupe –
  1. Sir James Leith, Governor of Guadeloupe (1815–1816)
  2. Returned to France
• Guernsey – George Pembroke, Earl of Pembroke, Governor of Guernsey (1807–1827)
• Heligoland – Charles Hamilton, Lieutenant Governor of Heligoland (1814–1817)
• Ionian Islands – Sir Thomas Maitland, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands (1815–1823); de facto protectorate
• India – Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira, Governor-General of India (1813–1823)
• Jamaica – William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester, Governor of Jamaica (1813–1821)
  • Belize – Sir George Arthur, Superintendent of Belize (1814–1822)
  • Cayman Islands – William Bodden, Chief Magistrate of the Cayman Islands (1776–1823)
• Leeward Islands –
  1. Sir James Leith, Governor of the Leeward Islands (1814–1816)
  2. Leeward Islands colony divided in 1816:
  • Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat colony
  • St. Christopher, Nevis, and Anguilla plus British Virgin Islands as a new colony
• Malta – Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Malta (1813–1824)
• Mauritius – Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, Governor of Mauritius (1810–1823)
• New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales (1810–1821)
  • Van Diemen's Land – Thomas Davey, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1813–1817)
• Newfoundland –
  1. Sir Richard Godwin Keats, Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1813–1816)
  2. Francis Pickmore, Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (1816–1818)
• Rupert's Land –
  1. Robert Semple, Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land (1815–1816)
  2. James Curtis Bird, Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land (1816–1818)
• St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla-British Virgin Islands
  1. Part of Leeward Islands
  2. Stedman Rawlins, Governor (1816)
  3. Thomas Probyn, Governor(1816–1821)
• St. Lucia –
  1. Edward Stehelin, Governor of St. Lucia (1815–1816)
  2. Robert Douglas, Governor of St. Lucia (1816)
  3. Richard Augustus Seymour, Governor of St. Lucia (1816–1817)
• St. Vincent – Charles Brisbane, Governor of St. Vincent (1808–1829)
• Tobago –
  1. John Balfour, Acting Governor of Tobago (1815–1816)
  2. Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, Governor of Tobago (1816–1827)
• Trinidad – Sir Ralph James Woodford, Governor of Trinidad (1813–1828)