Colonial Secretary of the Bahamas


The Colonial Secretary of the Bahama Islands was the second highest official in the colony, usually appointed from Britain. The Colonial Secretary was an ex-officio member of the Executive Council and frequently served as Acting Governor in the absence of the Governor.
In other colonies, the position was sometimes known as Chief Secretary. In the Bahamas, the Colonial Secretary was also known at one time as the Secretary of the Providence. One of the responsibilities of the Secretary of the Providence from 1764 to 1950 was keeper of the public records.

List of Colonial secretaries of the Bahamas

The following is an incomplete list of colonial secretaries of the Bahamas:
ImageColonial SecretaryPeriod in Office
Charles R. Nesbitt1838-1867
Charles Lempriere1867-1868
George Strahan1868-1873
John D'A Dumaresq1873-1874
Edward Basnett Anderson Taylor1875-1891
Sir Henry Moore Jacksonabt 1891-1894
Sir George Melville1894-1895
John Spencer-Churchill1895-1905
William Hart-Bennettfrom abt 1911-1914
Henry E. W. Grant1918-1923
Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns1924-1929
Sir Charles Dundas1929-1934
James Henry Jarrett1935 - unk
Aubrey Kenneth Solomon1939
William L. Heape1940-1944
D. G. Stewart1944-1947
F. A. Evans1947-1950
Charles Percival Bethel1950-1952
Anthony Geoffrey Hopwood Gardner-Brown1952-1955
Fred A. Noad1956
Kenneth M. Walmsley1956-1964