List of Governors of the Isle of Wight

Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of the Isle of Wight in England:

Governors of the Isle of Wight

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• 1509–1520: Sir Nicholas I Wadham (d.1542) "Captain of the Isle of Wight".^[1]
• 1538–1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (later Earl of Essex)
• 1558–?: John Paulet Lord St John (later Marquess of Winchester)
• 1565–1583: Sir Edward Horsey
• 1583–1603: Sir George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon
• 1603–1624: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
• 1633–1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
• 1642–1647: Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
• 1647–1647: Robert Hammond
• 1648–1659: Col. William Sydenham
• 1660: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
• 1660–1661: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
• 1661–1667: Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
• 1668–1692: Sir Robert Holmes
• 1693: Hon. Thomas Tollemache
• 1693–1707: John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
• 1707–1710: Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton
• 1710–1715: General John Richmond Webb
• 1715–1726: William Cadogan (later Earl Cadogan)^[2]
• 1726–1733: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• 1733–1734: John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
• 1734–1742: John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington
• 1742–1746: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• 1746–1762: John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth
• 1763–1764: Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes
• 1764–1766: Hans Stanley
• 1766–1770: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton
• 1770–1780: Hans Stanley
• 1780–1782: Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
• 1782–1791: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton
• 1791–1807: Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton
• 1807–1841: James Harris, 2nd Earl of Malmesbury
• 1841–1857: William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
• 1857–1888: Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley
• 1889–1896: Prince Henry of Battenberg
• 1896–1944: Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
• 1957–1965: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
• 1965–1974: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Lord Lieutenant 1974–1979)
• 1992–1995: David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone

Lieutenant-Governors of the Isle of Wight

• 1798–1808: Sir William Medows
• 1808–?: Francis Edward Gwyn^[3]

References

1. Virgoe, Roger, Biography of Wadham, Sir Nicholas (by 1472-1542), of Merrifield, nr. Ilton, Som., Published in The History of Parliament: House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
2. The London Gazette: no. 5360. p. 3. 30 August 1715.
3. The London Gazette: no. 16168. p. 1062. 2 August 1808.

Sources

• The London Gazette
• Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)