List of Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed

Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, including the garrison at Holy Island (during English occupation of the Royal Burgh):

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Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed

For Scotland

• 1295 -1296 Sir William Douglas
• 1328 - 1333 Sir Alexander de Seton, Lord of Seton & Winchburgh ^[1]
• 1333 Sir William Keith

For England

• 1440-?: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland

For Scotland

• 1461 Sir Robert Lauder
• 1474: David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
• 1478: Sir Robert Lauder (again)
• 1482: Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes

For England

• 1484-?: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
• (Henry VIII): Sir Thomas Clifford
• (Mary I): John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers
• 1564-?: Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
• 1568-?: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
• 1598-1601: Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby

For Great Britain

• (James I): John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon
• c.1610: Sir James Dundas of Arniston^[2]
• 1639-?: Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
• 1660-1675: William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington
• 1675-1686: Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• 1686-1688: William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington
• 1689–1690: Philip Babington
• 1691–1699: Richard Leveson
• 1702–1711: Edmund Maine
• 1713–1715: Sir Henry Belasyse
• 1715–1718: Charles Wills
• 1718–1719: George MacCartney
• 1719–1732: Joseph Sabine
• 1732–1733: George Wade^[3]
• 1733–1735: Rich Russell^[4]
• 1735–1740: Philip Honywood^[5]
• 1740–1741: Thomas Whetham^[6]
• 1742: James Tyrrell^[7]
• 1742–1753: Thomas Howard^[8]
• 1753–1765: John Guise^[9]
• 1765–1778: Robert Monckton^[10]
• 1778: Sir John Clavering^[11] (in fact Clavering had died in the East Indies the previous year)
• 1778–1780: Sir John Mordaunt^[12]
• 1780–1795: Hon. John Vaughan^[13]
• 1795–1808: Hon. William Howe, later Viscount Howe^[14]
• 1808–1833: Banastre Tarleton^[15]
• 1833–1850: Sir James Bathurst^[16]

Lieutenant-Governors

• 1702–1705: Edward Nott^[17]
• 1705: William Dobyns^[18]
• ?–1733: Rich Russell
• 1733–1737: James St. Clair^[19]
• 1737–1747: John Pricev^[20]
• 1749–1764: John Barrington^[21]
• 1765?-1767: Roderick Gwynne
• 1767–1793: William Hill^[22]
• 1793–1794: Gerard Lake^[23]
• 1794–1795: Edmund Stevens^[24]
• 1795: George Ludlow^[25]

References

• The London Gazette

1. http://www.cyberancestors.com/cummins/ps111/ps111_291.htm
2. Gazetteer for Scotland
3. The London Gazette: no. 7097. p. 1. 3 June 1732.
4. The London Gazette: no. 7205. p. 1. 16 June 1733.
5. The London Gazette: no. 7428. p. 1. 12 August 1735.
6. The London Gazette: no. 7909. p. 2. 10 May 1740.
7. The London Gazette: no. 8119. p. 2. 15 May 1742.
8. The London Gazette: no. 8161. p. 2. 9 October 1742.
9. The London Gazette: no. 9264. p. 2. 1 May 1753.
10. John Brooke, MONCKTON, Hon. Robert (1726-82). in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790, 1964.
11. Robert Beatson, A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2 (London, 1806), page 157
12. The London Gazette: no. 11867. p. 1. 18 April 1778.
13. The London Gazette: no. 12132. p. 1. 31 October 1780.
14. The London Gazette: no. 13801. p. 805. 1 August 1795.
15. The London Gazette: no. 16122. p. 284. 23 February 1808.
16. The London Gazette: no. 19019. p. 247. 5 February 1833.
17. Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, volume V (London, 1902) page 156.
18. Dalton, English Army Lists, volume V, page 158.
19. The London Gazette: no. 7205. p. 1. 16 June 1733.
20. Notes and Queries, 12th series, volume III, page 11. 6 January 1917.
21. The London Gazette: no. 8874. p. 1. 8–12 August 1749.
22. The London Gazette: no. 10767. p. 2. 26–29 September 1767.
23. The London Gazette: no. 13583. p. 926. 19–22 October 1793.
24. The London Gazette: no. 13706. p. 963. 20–23 September 1794.
25. The London Gazette: no. 13796. p. 743. 14–18 July 1795.