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This page lists Governors of Tobago. Governors of Tobago have been referred to by the formal titles of "Governor" and "Lieutenant-Governor". For governors of the united Trinidad and Tobago after 1889 see List of Governors of Trinidad and Tobago.

Lieutenant Governors of British Tobago (1764–1781)

• Alexander Brown (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 12 November 1764 – July 1766
• William Hill – 2 December 1766 – 16 October 1767
• Roderick Gwynne – 16 October 1767 – 1769
• Robert William Stewart – 1769 – 1771
• William Young (Lt. Governor of Tobago) of Auchenskeoch Castle (Scotland) – 1771 – 1777
• Peter Campbell (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1777 – 1779
• John Graham (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1779 – 1781
• George Ferguson (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 1781 – 2 June 1781

Governors of French Tobago (1781–1793)

• Philibert Francois Rouxel de Blanchelande – 2 June 1781 – 1784
• Rene Maria viconte d'Arrot – 1784 – 1786
• Arthur Dillon – 1786 – 1789
• Antoine de Jobal de Poigny – 1789 – 1792
• Philippe Marie de Marguenat – 1792 – 1793
• Laroque de Mointeil – 1793

Governors of British Tobago (1793–1899)

• William Myers – April 1793
• George Poyntz Ricketts – 1793 – 1795
• Joseph Robley – 1795
• William Lindsay – 1795 – 1796
• James Campbell – 1796 – 1797
• Stephen de Lancey – 1797 – 1799
• Joseph Robley – 1799 – 1800
• Richard Master – 1800
• Joseph Robley – 1800 – 1801
• Hugh Lyle Carmichael - 1801 – 7 November 1802
• Jean Joseph Francois Leonard Damarzit de Laroche Sahuguet – 7 November 1802 – 1803
• Louis Cesar Gabriel Berthier – 1803
• Thomas Picton – 30 June 1803 – July 1803
• William Johnstone – July 1803 – August 1803
• Donald MacDonald – August 1803 – July 1804
• John Halkett – July 1804 – 1807
• Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet – 1807 – 1815
• John Balfour – 1815 – 1816
• John Campbell – 1816
• Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson – November 1816
• Sir Colin Campbell - February 1828 - April 1828 ^[1]
• Nathaniel Blackwell – April 1828 – 1833 ^[2]
• Alexander Gardner – 1833 – (Acting)
• General Sir Lionel Smith – 1833
• General Sir Henry Charles Darling – 1833 – 1845
• Laurence Graeme – 1845 – 1851
• David Robert Ross – 16 April 1851 – 26 June 1851
• Henry Yates – 1851 – 1852 – (1st Time / Acting)
• Dominick Daly September 1851 – 1852 ^[3]
• Henry Yates – 1852 – February 1854 – (2nd Time / Acting)
• Willoughby J. Shortland – February 1854 – 1856
• James Kirk – 1856 – (Acting)
• James Henry Keens – 1856 – 1857 – (Acting)
• James Vickery Drysdale – June 1857 – April 1864
• Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright – October 1864 – 1872 ^[4]
• Herbert Taylor Ussher – 1872 – 1875
• Robert William Harley – 1875 – 1877 ^[5]
• Augustus Fredrick Gore – 1877 – 1880 ^[6]
• Edward Laborde – 1880 – 1882
• John Worrell Carrington – 1883 – 1884
• Lorraine Geddes Hay – 1885
• Robert Baxter Llewellyn – 1885 – 1888
• Lorraine Geddes Hay – 1888 – 1892
• Thomas Crossley Rayner – 1892
• William Low – 1892 – 1893
• Herbert H. Sealy – 1893 (acting)
• William Low – 1893 – 1897
• S. W. Snaggs – 1897 (acting)
• Joseph Clanfergael O'Halloran – 1897 – 1899

See also

• List of Governors of Trinidad
• List of Governors of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of Governors-General of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago
• list of Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago