List of Newfoundland and Labrador lieutenant-governors
This is a list of viceroys for the
colony,
dominion and
province of
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Proprietary Governors (1610-1728)
(*)de facto governor
French Gouverneurs of Plaisance
| Term | Name
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|---|
| 1655 | Sieur de Kéréon
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| 1660 | Nicolas Gargot
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| 1662-1663 | Thalour du Perron
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| 1664-1667 | Bellot dit Lafontaine
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| 1667-1670 | La Palme
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| 1670-1684 | La Poippe
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| 1685-1690 | Antoine Parat
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| 1690-1691 | Louis de Pastour de Costebelle
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| 1690-1701 | Jacques-François de Mombeton de Brouillan
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| 1697-1702 | Joseph de Monic
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| 1702-1706 | Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
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| 1706-1713 | Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle
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Commodore-Governors
| Term | Name
|
|---|
| 1729-1730 | Henry Osborn
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| 1731-1731 | George Clinton
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| 1732-1732 | Edward Falkingham
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| 1733-1734 | Robert MacCarty
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| 1734-1734 | Viscount Muskerry
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| 1735-1737 | FitzRoy Henry Lee
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| 1738-1738 | Philip Vanbrugh
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| 1739-1740 | Henry Medley
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| 1740-1740 | George Graham
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| 1741-1741 | Thomas Smith
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| 1742-1742 | John Byng
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| 1743-1743 | Thomas Smith
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| 1744-1744 | Charles Hardy
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| 1745-1745 | Richard Edwards
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| 1746-1747 | (Vacant)
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| 1748-1748 | Charles Watson
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| 1749-1749 | George Brydges Rodney
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| 1750-1752 | Francis William Drake
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| 1753-1754 | Hugh Bonfoy
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| 1755-1756 | Richard Dorrill
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| 1757-1759 | Richard Edwards
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| 1760-1760 | James Webb
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| 1761-1763 | Thomas Graves (later Baron Graves)
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| 1764-1768 | Sir Hugh Palliser
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| 1769-1771 | John Byron
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| 1772-1774 | Molyneux Shuldham
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| 1775-1775 | Richard Duff
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| 1776-1778 | John Montagu
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| 1779-1781 | Richard Edwards
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| 1782-1785 | John Campbell
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| 1786-1788 | John Elliott
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| 1789-1791 | Mark Milbanke
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| 1792-1793 | Sir Richard King
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| 1794-1796 | Sir James Wallace
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| 1797-1799 | William Waldegrave
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| 1800-1801 | Sir Charles Morice Pole
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| 1802-1803 | James Gambier
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| 1804-1806 | Sir Erasmus Gower
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| 1807-1809 | John Holloway
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| 1810-1812 | Sir John Thomas Duckworth
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| 1813-1816 | Sir Richard Godwin Keats
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| 1817-1818 | Francis Pickmore
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| 1818-1825 | Sir Charles Hamilton
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| Term | Name
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|---|
| 1825-1834 | Sir Thomas John Cochrane
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| 1834-1841 | Sir Henry Prescott
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| 1841-1846 | Sir John Harvey
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| 1846-1847 | John Law
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| 1847-1852 | Sir John Gaspard LeMerchant
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| 1852-1855 | Ker Baillie Hamilton
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For Prime Ministers since the establishment of responsible government in 1855 see List of Newfoundland Prime Ministers
| Term | Name
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|---|
| 1855-1857 | Sir Charles Henry Darling
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| 1857-1864 | Sir Alexander Bannerman
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| 1864-1869 | Sir Anthony Musgrave
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| 1869-1876 | Sir Stephen John Hill
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| 1876-1881 | Sir John Hawley Glover
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| 1881-1883 | Sir Henry F. B. Maxse
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| 1883-1885 | Sir John Hawley Glover
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| 1886-1887 | Sir George William Desvoeux
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| 1887-1889 | Sir Henry Arthur Blake
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| 1889-1895 | Sir John Terence N. O'Brien
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| 1895-1898 | Sir Herbert Harley Murray
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| 1898-1901 | Sir Henry Edward McCallum
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| 1901-1904 | Sir Cavendish Boyle
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| 1904-1909 | Sir William Macgregor
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| 1909-1913 | Sir Ralph Champneys Williams
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| 1913-1917 | Sir Walter Edward Davidson
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| 1917-1922 | Sir Charles A. Harris
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| 1922-1928 | Sir William L. Allardyce
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| 1928-1932 | Sir John Middleton
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| 1933-1934 | Sir David Murray Anderson
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| Term | Name
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|---|
| 1949-1949 | Sir Albert Walsh
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| 1949-1957 | Sir Leonard Cecil Outerbridge
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| 1957-1963 | Campbell Leonard Macpherson
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| 1963-1969 | Fabian O'Dea
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| 1969-1974 | Ewart John Arlington Harnum
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| 1974-1981 | Gordon Arnaud Winter
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| 1981-1986 | William Anthony Paddon
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| 1986-1991 | James Aloysius McGrath
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| 1991-1997 | Frederick Russell
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| 1997-2002 | Dr. Arthur Maxwell House
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| 2002- | Edward Roberts
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