Bahamas




1648 first English settlement
1718 British crown colony
3 Mar 1776 - 17 Mar 1776 American occupation
8 May 1782 - 19 Apr 1783 Spanish occupation
1969 Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands
10 Jul 1973 independence (Commonwealth of The Bahamas)

Governors

1697 - 1700 Nicholas Webb
1700 - 1701 Elias Haskett
1701 - 1705 Ellis Lightfood
Jan 1706 - 1706 Edward Birch
1706 Thomas Walker
1706 - 1718 pirate rule
- Thomas Barrow
- Benjamin Hornigold (b. ... - d. 1719?)
- Edward Teach "Blackbeard" (b. 1680? - d. 1718)
et al.
26 Jul 1718 - 1721 Woodes Rogers (1st time) (b. 1679? - d. 1732)
1721 - 1728 George Phenney
Aug 1729 - 16 Jul 1732 Woodes Rogers (2nd time) (s.a.)
1732 - 1733 Richard Thompson (acting)
Nov 1733 - 1740 Richard Fitzwilliams
1740 - 1758 John Tinker (b. ... - d. 1758)
1758 - 1760 John Gambier (1st time) (acting) (b. 1723 - d. 1782)
1760 - 1768 William Shirley (b. 1694 - d. 1771)
28 Nov 1768 - 1774 Thomas Shirley (b. 1727 - d. 1780)
1774 - 3 Mar 1776 Montfort Browne (1st time)
3 Mar 1776 - 17 Mar 1776 Samuel Nicholas (b. 1744 - d. 1790)
(American commander)
1776 - 1778 John Gambier (2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
1778 - 1779 Montfort Browne (2nd time)
1780 - 1784 John Robert Maxwell
(1782-83 Spanish prisoner)
8 May 1782 - 19 Apr 1783 Bernardo de Gálvez (b. 1746 - d. 1786)
(Spanish commander)
1784 - 1786 James Edward Powell
1786 - 1787 John Brown (acting)
1787 - 1796 John Murray, Earl of Dunmore (b. 1732 - d. 1809)
1796 - 14 Feb 1797 Robert Hunt (acting)
14 Feb 1797 - Jun 1797 John Forbes (b. 1750 - d. 1797)
20 Nov 1797 - 1801 William Dowdeswell (b. 1761 - d. 1828)
1801 - 1804 John Halkett (b. 1768 - d. 1852)
8 May 1804 - 1820 Charles Cameron (b. 1766? - d. 1828)
1821 - 1829 Lewis Grant (b. ... - d. 1852)
1829 - 1833 James Carmichael Smyth (b. 1779 - d. 1838)
1833 - 1835 Blayney Townley Balfour (b. 1799 - d. 1882)
1835 - 1837 William MacBean George Colebrooke (b. 1787 - d. 1870)
1837 - 1844 Francis Cockburne
1844 - 1849 George Benvenuto Mathew (b. 1807 - d. 1879)
1849 - 1854 John Gregory
1854 - 1857 Sir Alexander Bannerman (b. 1783 - d. 1864)
1857 - 1864 Charles John Bayley (b. ... - d. 1873)
1864 - 1869 Rawson William Rawson (b. 1812 - d. 1899)
1869 - 1871 Sir James Walker (b. 1809 - d. 1885)
1871 - 1873 George Cumine Strahan (b. 1838 - d. 1889)
1873 - 1874 Sir John Pope Hennessy (b. 1834 - d. 1891)
1874 - 1880 William Robinson (b. 1836 - d. 1912)
1880 - 1881 Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald
Callaghan (b. c.1830 - d. 1881)
1882 - Jan 1884 Charles Cameron Lees (from 1883,
Sir Charles Cameron Lees) (b. 1837 - d. 1898)
4 Jan 1884 - 1887 Sir Henry Arthur Blake (b. 1840 - d. 1918)
1887 - 1895 Sir Ambrose Shea (b. 1816 - d. 1905)
1895 - 1898 Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith (b. 1839 - d. 1928)
1898 - 1904 Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter (b. 1848 - d. 1927)
29 Nov 1904 - 1912 Sir William Grey-Wilson (b. 1852 - d. 1926)
29 Oct 1912 - 1914 Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith (b. 1861 - d. 1931)
15 Jun 1914 - 1920 Sir William Lamond Allardyce (b. 1861 - d. 1930)
8 Dec 1920 - 1926 Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux (b. 1870 - d. 1943)
15 Mar 1927 - Jan 1932 Charles William James Orr
(from 1928, Sir Charles William
James Orr) (b. 1870 - d. 1945)
10 Jan 1932 - 1934 Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford
(from 1933, Sir Bede Edmund
Hugh Clifford) (b. 1890 - d. 1969)
1934 - 1940 Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas
(from 1938, Sir Charles Cecil
Farquharson Dundas) (b. 1884 - d. 1956)
(acting to 1937)
18 Aug 1940 - 1945 Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1894 - d. 1972)
28 Jul 1945 - 1950 William Lindsay Murphy (from
1946, Sir William Lindsay Murphy) (b. 1887 - d. 1965)
5 Jan 1950 - Dec 1950 Sir George Ritchie Sandford (b. 1892 - d. 1950)
7 Dec 1950 - 1953 Robert Arthur Ross Neville
(from 1952, Sir Robert Arthur
Ross Neville) (b. 1896 - d. 1987)
21 Dec 1953 - 1956 Thomas David Knox,
Earl of Ranfurly (b. 1913 - d. 1988)
1 Apr 1957 - 1960 Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur (b. 1905 - d. 1973)
18 Jul 1960 - 1964 Sir Robert Stapledon (b. 1909 - d. 1975)
3 Jun 1964 - 1968 Sir Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey (b. 1910 - d. 1999)
1 Nov 1968 - 1972 Sir Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-
Cumming-Bruce (from 1971,
Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-
Cumming-Bruce, Baron Thurlow) (b. 1912)
14 May 1972 - 10 Jul 1973 Sir John Warburton Paul (b. 1916 - d. 2004)

Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)

10 Jul 1973 - 31 Jul 1973 Sir John Warburton Paul (acting) (s.a.)
1 Aug 1973 - 22 Jan 1979 Sir Milo Butler (b. 1906 - d. 1979)
22 Jan 1979 - 25 Jun 1988 Sir Gerald Cash (b. 1917 - d. 2003)
(acting [for Butler from 2 Sep 1976] to 23 Sep 1979)
26 Jun 1988 - 1 Jan 1992 Sir Henry Taylor (b. 1903 - d. 1994)
(acting to 28 Feb 1991)
2 Jan 1992 - 2 Jan 1995 Sir Clifford Darling (b. 1922)
3 Jan 1995 - 13 Nov 2001 Orville Turnquest (from 22 Feb
1995, Sir Orville Turnquest) (b. 1929)
13 Nov 2001 - 30 Nov 2005 Dame Ivy Dumont (f) (b. 1930)
(acting to 1 Jan 2002)
1 Dec 2005 - 1 Feb 2006 Paul Adderley (acting) (b. 1928?)
1 Feb 2006 - Arthur Dion Hanna (b. 1928)

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Chief minister

1955 - 7 Jan 1964 Roland T. Symonette (from 1959,
Sir Roland T. Symonette) (b. 1898 - d. 1980)

Premiers

7 Jan 1964 - 16 Jan 1967 Sir Roland T. Symonette (s.a.)
16 Jan 1967 - 1969 Lynden O. Pindling (b. 1930 - d. 2000)

Prime ministers

1969 - 21 Aug 1992 Lynden O. Pindling (from 1 Jan
1983, Sir Lynden O. Pindling) (s.a.)
21 Aug 1992 - 3 May 2002 Hubert Ingraham (1st time) (b. 1947)
3 May 2002 - 4 May 2007 Perry Christie (b. 1943)
4 May 2005 - 22 Jun 2005 Cynthia Pratt (f) (b. 1945)
(acting for Christie)
4 May 2007 - Hubert Ingraham (2nd time) (s.a.)

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