List of Presidents of The British Virgin Islands

The following persons served as Presidents of the Council in the British Virgin Islands. However, the real power in the Territory was exercised through the Governors of the Leeward Islands.

Prior to 1782 the Presidents of the Council were referred to as Lieutenant Governors.

  • John Pickering (1741)
  • John Hunt (1741–1750)
  • James Purcell (1750–1751)
  • John Purcell (1751–1775)
  • John Nugent (1775–1782)

Vacant from 1782 to 1811

  • Richard Hetherington (1811–18??)
  • William Rogers Isaacs (1833–1838)
  • Edward Hay Drummond Hay (1839–1850)

Vacant from 1850 to 1852

  • John Cornell Chads (1852–1854)
  • Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (1854–1857)

Vacant from 1857 to 1859

  • Thomas Price (1859–1861)
  • James Robert Longden (1861–1864)
  • Sir Arthur Carlos Henry Rumbold (1866–1869)
  • Alexander Wilson Muir (1869–1872)
  • Richard Mahoney Hickson (1873–1879)
  • John Kemys Spencer-Churchill (1879–1882)
  • Richard Henry Kortright Dyett (1882–1884)
  • Fredrick Augustus Pickering (1884–1887)

For leaders after this see: Governor of the British Virgin Islands

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, presidents, british, virgin and/or islands:

    “My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.”
    —Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)

    “We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “There’s nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.”
    —Melvyn Bragg (b. 1939)

    “Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna—to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It’s the sign of the misogynist.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    “What are the islands to me
    if you are lost
    what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
    and Delos, the clasp
    of the white necklace?”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)