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Lieutenant-Governors of Newfoundland and Labrador

This is a list of viceroys for the colony, dominion and province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The flag of the Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

1 Proprietary Governors (1610-1728)
2 French Gouverneurs of Plaisance (1655-1713)
3 Commodore-Governors (1729-1825)
4 Civil Governors (1825-1855)
5 Colonial Governors (1855-1907)
6 Dominion Governors (1907-1934)
7 Commission Governors (1934-1949)
8 Lieutenant Governors (1949-present)
9 External links

Proprietary Governors (1610-1728)

Term	Name	Colony
1610-1614	John Guy	Cuper's Cove
1615-1621	John Mason	Cuper's Cove
1618-1628	Robert Hayman	Bristol's Hope
1618-1620	Sir Richard Whitbourne	Renews
1623-1626	Francis Tanfield	South Falkland
1621-1625	Edward Wynne	Ferryland
1625-1627	Sir Arthur Aston	Avalon
1627-1629	George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore	Avalon
1629-1632	Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore*	Avalon
1634-1638	William Hill	Avalon
1638-1651	Sir David Kirke	Newfoundland
1653-1660	John Treworgie	Newfoundland

(*)de facto governor

French Gouverneurs of Plaisance (1655-1713)

Term	Name
1655	Sieur de Kéréon
1660	Nicolas Gargot
1662-1663	Thalour du Perron
1664-1667	Bellot dit Lafontaine
1667-1670	La Palme
1670-1684	La Poippe
1685-1690	Antoine Parat
1690-1691	Louis de Pastour de Costebelle
1690-1701	Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan
1697-1702	Joseph de Monic
1702-1706	Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
1706-1713	Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle

Commodore-Governors (1729-1825)

Term	Name
1729-1730	Henry Osborn
1731-1731	George Clinton
1732-1732	Edward Falkingham
1733-1734	Robert McCarthy, Viscount Muskerry
1735-1737	FitzRoy Henry Lee
1738-1738	Philip Vanbrugh
1739-1740	Henry Medley
1741-1741	Thomas Smith
1742-1742	John Byng
1743-1743	Thomas Smith
1744-1744	Charles Hardy
1745-1745	Richard Edwards
1746-1746	James Douglas
1747-1747	(Vacant)
1748-1748	Charles Watson
1749-1749	George Brydges Rodney
1750-1752	Francis William Drake
1753-1754	Hugh Bonfoy
1755-1756	Richard Dorrill
1757-1759	Richard Edwards
1760-1760	James Webb
1761-1763	Thomas Graves (later Baron Graves)
1764-1768	Sir Hugh Palliser
1769-1771	John Byron
1772-1774	Molyneux Shuldham
1775-1775	Robert Duff
1776-1778	John Montagu
1779-1781	Richard Edwards
1782-1785	John Campbell
1786-1788	John Elliott
1789-1791	Mark Milbanke
1792-1793	Sir Richard King
1794-1796	Sir James Wallace
1797-1799	William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock
1800-1801	Sir Charles Morice Pole
1802-1803	James Gambier
1804-1806	Sir Erasmus Gower
1807-1809	John Holloway
1810-1812	Sir John Thomas Duckworth
1813-1816	Sir Richard Goodwin Keats
1817-1818	Francis Pickmore
1818-1825	Sir Charles Hamilton

Civil Governors (1825-1855)

Term	Name
1825-1834	Sir Thomas John Cochrane
1834-1841	Sir Henry Prescott
1841-1846	Sir John Harvey
1846-1847	Robert Law colonial administrator
1847-1852	Sir John Le Merchant
1852-1855	Ker Baillie Hamilton

For Prime Ministers since the establishment of responsible government in 1855 see List of Newfoundland Prime Ministers.

Colonial Governors (1855-1907)

Term	Name
1855-1857	Sir Charles Henry Darling
1857-1864	Sir Alexander Bannerman
1864-1869	Sir Anthony Musgrave
1869-1876	Sir Stephen John Hill
1876-1881	Sir John Hawley Glover
1881-1883	Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse
1883-1885	Sir John Hawley Glover
1886-1887	Sir George William Des Vœux
1887-1889	Sir Henry Arthur Blake
1889-1895	Sir John Terence Nicholls O'Brien
1895-1898	Sir Herbert Harley Murray
1898-1901	Sir Henry Edward McCallum
1901-1904	Sir Cavendish Boyle
1904-1907	Sir William Macgregor

Dominion Governors (1907-1934)

Term	Name
1907-1909	Sir William Macgregor
1909-1913	Sir Ralph Champneys Williams
1913-1917	Sir Walter Edward Davidson
1917-1922	Sir Charles Alexander Harris
1922-1928	Sir William L. Allardyce
1928-1932	Sir John Middleton
1933-1934	Sir David Murray Anderson

Commission Governors (1934-1949)

Term	Name
1934-1935	Sir David Murray Anderson
1936-1946	Sir Humphrey T. Walwyn
1946-1949	Sir Gordon MacDonald

Lieutenant Governors (1949-present)

Term	Name
1949-1949	Sir Albert Walsh
1949-1957	Sir Leonard Cecil Outerbridge
1957-1963	Campbell Leonard Macpherson
1963-1969	Fabian O'Dea
1969-1974	Ewart John Arlington Harnum
1974-1981	Gordon Arnaud Winter
1981-1986	William Anthony Paddon
1986-1991	James Aloysius McGrath
1991-1997	Frederick Russell
1997-2002	Dr. Arthur Maxwell House
2002-2008	Edward Roberts
2008-	John Carnell Crosbie

v • d • e Viceroys of Canada

Federal	Governor General

Provincial lieutenant-governors	Alberta • British Columbia • Manitoba • New Brunswick • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Ontario • Prince Edward Island • Quebec • Saskatchewan

Historical governors	New France (1627–1760) • Acadia • North-West Territories (1869–1905) • Vancouver Island and British Columbia (1843–1871)

v • d • e

Governors of Newfoundland

Lieutenant Governors (1949-present)
Walsh • Outerbridge • Macpherson • O'Dea • Harnum • Winter • Paddon • McGrath • Russell • House • Roberts • Crosbie

Commission Governors (1934-1949)
Anderson • Walwyn • MacDonald

Dominion Governors (1907-1934)
MacGregor • Williams • Davidson • Harris • Allardyce • Middleton • Anderson

Colonial Governors (1855-1907)
Darling • Bannerman • Musgrave • Hill • Glover • Maxse • Glover • Des Vœux • Blake • O'Brien • Murray • McCallum • Boyle • MacGregor

Civil Governors (1825-1855)
Cochrane • Prescott • Harvey • Law • Le Merchant • Hamilton

Commodore-Governors (1729-1825)
Osborn • Clinton • Falkingham • Muskerry • Lee • Vanbrugh • Medley • Smith • Byng • Smith • Hardy • Edwards • Douglas • Watson • Rodney • Drake • Bonfoy • Dorrill • Edwards • Webb • Graves • Palliser • Byron • Shuldham • Duff • Montagu • Edwards • Campbell • Elliot • Milbanke • King • Wallace • Waldegrave • Pole • Gambier • Gower • Holloway • Duckworth • Keats • Pickmore • Hamilton

French Gouverneurs (1655-1713)
de Kéréon • Gargot • du Perron • dit Lafontaine • Palme • Pioppe • Parat • de Costebelle • de Brouillan • de Monic • de Subercase • de Costebelle

Proprietary Governors (1610-1728)
Guy • Mason • Hayman • Whitbourne • Tanfield • Wynne • Aston • Calvert • Baltimore • Hill • Kirke • Treworgie

v • d • e Topics on New France

Subdivisions	Acadia (1604–1713) • Canada (1608–1763) • Louisiana (1699–1763, 1800–1803) • Newfoundland (1662–1713) • Île Royale (1713–1763)

Towns	Acadia (Port Royal) • Canada (Quebec, Trois-Rivières, Montreal, Détroit) • Île Royale (Louisbourg) • Louisiana (Mobile, New Orleans) • Newfoundland (Plaisance) • List of towns

Forts	Fort Rouillé • Fort Michilimackinac • Fort de Chartres • Fort Detroit • Fort Carillon • Fort Duquesne • Fortress of Louisbourg • Castle Hill • List of Forts

Government	Canada (Governor General of New France, Intendant of New France, Sovereign Council of New France, Bishop of Quebec, Governor of Trois-Rivières, Governor of Montreal) • Acadia (Governor of Acadia) • Newfoundland (Governor of Plaisance) • Louisiana (Governor of Louisiana, Intendant of Louisiana, Superior Council of Louisiana) • Île Royale (Governor of Île Royale)

Justice	Intendancy • Superior Council • Admiralty court • Provostship • Officiality • Seigneurial court • Attorney • Bailiff • Maréchaussée • Code Noir

Economy	Seigneurial system • 1666 census • Fur trade • Company of 100 Associates • Crozat's Company • Mississippi Company • Compagnie de l'Occident

Society	Habitants • King's Daughters • Coureur des bois • Métis • Amerindians

War & Peace	Intercolonial Wars • French and Iroquois Wars • Great Upheaval • Great Peace of Montreal • Schenectady massacre • Deerfield massacre

Related	French colonization of the Americas • French colonial empire • History of Quebec • History of the Acadians • History of Louisiana • French West Indies • Carib Expulsion • African slave trade

External links

Profiles of Governors

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