This is a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia from the first French settlement in 1650, until the island gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1979. Saint Lucia was colonized by the British and French in the 17th century and was the subject of several possession changes until 1814, when it was ceded to the British by France for the final time. In 1958, St. Lucia joined the short-lived semi-autonomous West Indies Federation. Saint Lucia was an associated state of the United Kingdom from 1967 to 1979 and then gained full independence on February 22, 1979.

Timeline of Saint Lucia

+ Documented Control of Saint Lucia Date range Country or people200/400800 Arawak people settle Saint Lucia 800 Kalinago (Caribs) settle Saint Lucia 1550s French Pirate François le Clerc sets up camp on Pigeon Island 1605 First English settlement 1626 First French claim to Saint Lucia, appointed first Saint Lucia governor in 1652 16381640 English Major Judge settlement until driven away by Caribs 1635 French settlements 1654 Dutch settlement at Vieux Fort Bay 1659 French drive off English invasion 1663 Caribs sell Saint Lucia to English governor and defeat French 16641666 English occupation 1667 Treaty of Breda (1667) gives control back to French 16741722 Annexed to the domain of the French Crown and made a dependency of Martinique 16861687 English raid and control 1687 English relinquish control to French 1697 Peace of Ryswick recognizes French control 17231743 Neutral territory (agreed by Britain and France) 17431747 French colony (Sainte Lucie) 17481755 Neutral territory (de jure agreed by Britain and France) 17561761 French colony (Sainte Lucie) 17621763 British occupation 17631777 France 1778 Britain 17811783British occupation 17831793 France 17941795 British occupation 17961802 British occupation 1802 France 18031838 British colony 1814 British possession confirmed 19581962 Province of West Indies Federation 19621967 Crown colony of the United Kingdom 19671979Associated state of the United Kingdom 1979 Independent state, part of the Commonwealth of Nations

History Saint Lucia was originally occupied by the Caribs. The first Europeans to make a settlement there were the English, though the Caribs forced them off the island. In 1651, the French Jacques Dyel du Parquet landed and peacefully made contact with the Caribs, due to his Caribbean wife, and was established as the first French governor of Sainte Lucia. The English made claim to the island but repudiated all claims to it under the 1667 Treaty of Breda wherein Sainte Lucia was formally made a French Crown Colony in 1674. During the Seven Years' War, Saint Lucia changed hands several times before 1778 when the British captured Saint Lucia from the French during the American War of Independence. The island was returned to France until the French Revolution where the island was handed over to the United Kingdom in 1803 and then formalised in 1814 by the Treaty of Paris.

Originally Saint Lucia was administered by the Governor of Barbados and later the Governor of the Windward Islands. On the island, various British Administrators and Commissioners were appointed to deputise for the Governor on Saint Lucia. After a period as part of the West Indies Federation, Saint Lucia gained its first separate Governor in 1967 when it entered into free association with the United Kingdom, with Frederick Clarke appointed as the first local Governor. In 1979, Saint Lucia formally gained its independence. The sitting Governor of Saint Lucia, Allen Montgomery Lewis then became the Governor-General of Saint Lucia, continuing to represent Queen Elizabeth II whom would continue to reign as Queen of Saint Lucia.

French and British Governors of the colony of Sainte Lucie, 1651–1802

+ Colonial era governors of Saint LuciaNameYearTitleRuleRefJacques Dyel du Parquet 1651 Lieutenant-General of Martinique, including Saint LuciaFrenchLouis de Kerengoan, sieur de Rousselan 16521654 Lieutenant GovernorFrenchM. Lavriverie 1657 GovernorFrenchM. Haquet 1657 GovernorFrenchM. Le Breton 1657 GovernorFrenchM. De Coutis 1658 GovernorFrenchM. D'Aigremont 1658 GovernorFrenchM. Lalanda 1659 GovernorFrenchM. LeSeur BonnardSon of Marie Bonnard du Parquet 16601664 GovernorFrenchMr. Robert Faulk 1664 GovernorFrenchWilliam, Lord Willoughby1672Governor of Saint Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and DominicaEnglishCharles de Courbon de Blénac 1677 Governor-GeneralFrenchFrançois d'Alesso d'Éragny 1691 Governor-GeneralFrenchThomas-Claude Renart de Fuchsamberg Amblimont 1697 Governor-GeneralFrenchThe Count d'Esnotz 1701 Governor-GeneralFrenchCharles-François de Machault de Belmont 1703 Governor-GeneralFrenchM. de Phelypeau 1711 Governor-GeneralFrenchThe Marquis Duquene 1715 Governor-GeneralFrenchThe Marquis de la Varenne 1717 Governor-GeneralFrenchThe Chevalier de Feuquieres 1717 Governor-GeneralFrenchCaptain Nathaniel Uring 1722 Deputy-GovernorBritishCharles de Tubières de Caylus 1744 Governor-GeneralFrenchM. de Longueville 1745 Governor-GeneralFrenchPierre Lucien de La Chapelle de Jumilhac 1763–1764GovernorFrenchThe Count d'Ennery 1768 Governor-GeneralFrenchBaron de Micoud 1769 Lieutenant-GovernorFrenchGeorge Brydges Rodney 1762–1763commander-in-chief of the Leeward IslesBritishClaude Anne de Micoud 1764–1771 FrenchThe Chevalier Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1771–1772Lieutenant GovernorFrenchFrédéric Laure de Kearney (M de Karny) 1772–1773 Lieutenant GovernorFrenchAlexandre Potier de Courcy 1775–1775 Lieutenant GovernorFrenchMarc Étienne de Joubert 1776–1776 Lieutenant GovernorFrenchThe Chevalier Claude Anne Gui de Micoud 1776–1781 Lieutenant GovernorFrenchGeneral Anthony St Leger 1781–1783 Lieutenant GovernorBritishBarron Jean Zénon André de Véron de Laborie 1784–1789Governor French Colonel Jean-Joseph Sourbader de Gimat 1789–1792Governor FrenchJean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse 1792 - 1793Military Commissioner in Guadeloupe French, considered an unreliable source by communityGeneral Nicolas Xavier de Ricard 1793–1794Governor French Colonel Sir Charles Gordon 1794–1795 BritishJames Stewart 1795 BritishGaspard Goyrand 1795–1796 CommissaryBritish General John Moore 1796–1797 Lieutenant GovernorBritishColonel James Drummond 1797–1798 Lieutenant GovernorBritishGeneral George Prevost 1798–1802 Lieutenant GovernorBritish General George Henry Vansittart 1802 Lieutenant GovernorBritish General Jean-François-Xavier Noguès 1802–1803 Lieutenant GovernorFrench

+ Governors of Saint Lucia 1651-1802

Governors of the British colony of Saint Lucia 1803–1834 General Robert Brereton 1803–1807, Commandant General Alexander Wood 1807–1814, Commandant Major Jacob Jordan 1814 (acting) General Francis Delaval 1814–1815, Commandant General Edward Stehelin 1815–1816, Commandant General Robert Douglas, Commandant 1816 General Richard Augustus Seymour 1816–1817, Governor Colonel Edward O'Hara 1817–1818 General Sir John Keane 1818–1819, Governor Major John Joseph Winkler 1819–1821 (acting Governor) General John Montagu Mainwaring 1821–1824, Governor Colonel Nathaniel Shepherd Blackwell 1824–1826 General John Montagu Mainwaring 1826–1827, Governor Colonel Lorenzo Moore 1827–1829 General David Stewart 1829, Governor Captain G.A.E. Delboate 1829 (acting Governor) Captain Robert Mullen 1829 (acting Governor) Major Francis Power 1829–1830 (acting Governor) James Alexander Farquharson 1830–1831, Governor George Mackie 1831, Governor Mark Anthony Bozon 1831–1832 Colonel John Carter 1832 (acting Governor) James Alexander Farquharson 1832–1834 (second time)

Lieutenant-Governors of Saint Lucia, 1834–1857 The following Lieutenant-Governors of Saint Lucia were subordinate to the Governor of the British Windward Islands: Colonel Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill 1834–1837 Colonel Thomas Bunbury 1837–1838 Colonel John Alexander Mein 1838–1839 Colonel Mathias Everard 1839–1841 Captain George Murray 1841 (acting governor) Colonel George Graydon 1841–1843 Captain William Caldwell 1841 (acting governor) Colonel Andrew Clarke 1843–1844 Arthur Wellesley Torrens 1844–1848 Sir Charles Henry Darling 1848–1852 Henry Clermont Cobbe 1852 Maurice Power 1852–1857

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1857–1889 Henry Heggart Breen 1857–1862 James Mayer Grant 1862–1869 Sir William Des Vœux 1869–1878 Arthur Elibank Havelock 1878–1879 Sir Roger Goldsworthy 1881–1884 Edward Laborde 1885–1889

Commissioners of Saint Lucia 1889–1958

Robert Baxter Llewelyn 1889–1891 Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury 1891–1896 Charles Anthony King-Harman 1896–1899 Sir Harry Langhorne Thompson 1900–1902 Sir George Melville 1902–1905 Philip Clark Cork 1905–1909 Sir Edward John Cameron 1909–1914 William Douglas Young 1914–1915 Gideon Oliphant-Murray 1915–1918 Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston 1918–1927 Charles William Doorly 1927–1935 Edward William Baynes 1935–1938 Arthur Alban Wright 1938–1944 Edward Francis Twining 1944–1946 John Montague Stow 1947–1953 John Kingsmill Thorp 1953–1958

Administrators of Saint Lucia 1958–1967

After incorporation into the Federation of the West Indies: Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1958–1962 Gerald Jackson Bryan 1962–1967

Governors of Saint Lucia 1967–1979 On 27 February 1967, Saint Lucia became an associated state of the United Kingdom, responsible for its own internal affairs. Sir Frederick Joseph Clarke was the first native Saint Lucian governor.

Sir Frederick Joseph Clarke 1967–1973, Governor Sir Ira Marcus Simmons 1973–1974, Governor Sir Allen Lewis 1974–1979, Governor

On 22 February 1979, Saint Lucia achieved independence from the United Kingdom. For a list of viceroys in Saint Lucia after independence, see Governor-General of Saint Lucia.

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