John Harvey (British Army officer)

This article is about the Canadian governor. For the Crown Governor of Virginia, see John Harvey (Virginia). For other people, see John Harvey.

Sir John Harvey

Lieutenant-General Sir John Harvey, KCB KCH (23 April 1778 – 22 March 1852) was a British Army officer and a lieutenant governor.

He was commissioned into the 80th Foot in 1794 and served in several different locations, including France, Egypt, and India. He came to Canada in 1813 and served as a lieutenant colonel in the War of 1812, taking part in the British victory at the Battle of Stoney Creek in Ontario.

From 1836 to 1837, he was the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island. From 1837 to 1841, he was the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. From 1841 to 1846, he was the Civil Governor of Newfoundland. From 1846 to 1852, he was the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Harvey, York County, New Brunswick, founded in 1837 when he was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, is named for him.

Harvey Park in Hamilton, Ontario, is named after him.

Former Harvey Township (now amalgamated with Galway-Cavendish and Harvey Township), Peterborough County, Ontario, is named after him.

External links

Biography at Government House The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador
"John Harvey". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas	Colonel of the 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 1844–1852	Succeeded by George Augustus Henderson
Government offices
Preceded by George Wright	Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island 1836–1837	Succeeded by Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
Preceded by Sir Archibald Campbell	Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick 1837–1841	Succeeded by Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke
Preceded by Sir Henry Prescott	Governor of Newfoundland 1841–1846	Succeeded by Sir John Le Marchant
Preceded by Sir Jeremiah Dickson	Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia 1846–1852	Succeeded by John Bazalgette

Note: The year after Sir John Harvey had stepped down as governor of Newfoundland and when Sir John LeMarchant was appointed, the colony was administered by Robert Law a British army officer.

Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward Island

Crown Colony of Prince Edward Island (1769–1873)	Patterson Fanning DesBarres Townshend Smith Ready Maxwell A. W. Young Wright Harvey FitzRoy Huntley Campbell Lane Bannerman Daly C. Young Dundas

Province of Prince Edward Island (1873–present)	Robinson Hodgson Haviland A. Macdonald Carvell Howlan McIntyre D. A. MacKinnon Rogers C. Macdonald M. MacKinnon Heartz Dalton de Blois LePage J. A. Bernard Prowse Hyndman W. J. MacDonald MacKay Bennett Doiron MacPhail Reid Clements L. Bernard Hagerman Lewis

Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia

Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant

Lieutenant-Governors before Confederation (1786–1867)	Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey Bazalgette LeMarchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Williams

Lieutenant-Governors of Cape Breton Island (1784–1820)	Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie

Governors before Confederation (1710–86)	Vetch Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr

Lieutenant-Governors who served in the absence of Governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.

Lieutenant Governors of New Brunswick

Post-Confederation (1867–present)

Governors before Confederation (1786–1866)

Lieutenant-Governors & Governors of Newfoundland

Proprietary Governors (1610–1660)	Guy Mason Hayman Whitbourne Tanfield Wynne Aston Calvert Baltimore Hill Kirke Treworgie

French Gouverneurs (1655–1713)	de Kéréon Gargot Du Perron Bellot Palme Pioppe Parat Louis de Pastour de Costebelle de Brouillan de Monic de Subercase Philippe Pastour de Costebelle

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

Civil Governors (1825–1855)	Cochrane Prescott Harvey Law Le Marchant Hamilton

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

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

Commission Governors (1934–1949)	Anderson Walwyn Macdonald

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

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 41719861 LCCN: nr94005188

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John Harvey (British Army officer)

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