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Officers of The South Sea Company

The South Sea Company had a Governor (generally an honorary position); a Subgovernor; a Deputy Governor and 30 directors (reduced in 1753 to 21).

Year Governor Subgovernor Deputy Governor
July 1711 Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford Sir James Bateman Samuel Ongley
August 1712 Sir Ambrose Crowley
October 1713 Samuel Shepheard
February 1715 George, Prince of Wales
February 1718 King George I
November 1718 John Fellows
February 1719 Charles Joye
February 1721 Sir John Eyles, Bt John Rudge
July 1727 King George II
February 1730 John Hanbury
February 1733 Sir Richard Hopkins John Bristow
February 1735 Peter Burrell
March 1756 John Bristow John Philipson
February 1756 Lewis Way
January 1760 King George III
February 1763 Lewis Way Richard Jackson
March 1768 Thomas Coventry
January 1771 Thomas Coventry vacant (?)
January 1772 John Warde
March 1775 Samuel Salt
January 1793 Benjamin Way Robert Dorrell
February 1802 Peter Pierson
February 1808 Charles Bosanquet Benjamin Harrison
1820 King George IV
January 1826 Sir Robert Baker
1830 King William IV
July 1837 Queen Victoria
January 1838 Charles Franks Thomas Vigne
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