List of colonial governors and administrators of Saint Lucia

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

Date range	Country or people
200/400800	Arawak people settle Saint Lucia
800	Kalinago 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
17431747	French colony
17481755	Neutral territory
17561761	French colony
17621763	British occupation
17631777	France
1778	Britain
17811783	British 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
19671979	Associated state of the United Kingdom
1979	Independent state, part of the Commonwealth of Nations

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

Name	Year	Title	Rule	Ref
Jacques Dyel du Parquet	1651	Lieutenant-General of Martinique, including Saint Lucia	French
Louis de Kerengoan, sieur de Rousselan	16521654	Lieutenant Governor	French
M. Lavriverie	1657	Governor	French
M. Haquet	1657	Governor	French
M. Le Breton	1657	Governor	French
M. De Coutis	1658	Governor	French
M. D'Aigremont	1658	Governor	French
M. Lalanda	1659	Governor	French
M. LeSeur Bonnard	16601664	Governor	French
Mr. Robert Faulk	1664	Governor	French
William, Lord Willoughby	1672	Governor of Saint Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and Dominica	English
Charles de Courbon de Blénac	1677	Governor-General	French
François d'Alesso d'Éragny	1691	Governor-General	French
Thomas-Claude Renart de Fuchsamberg Amblimont	1697	Governor-General	French
The Count d'Esnotz	1701	Governor-General	French
Charles-François de Machault de Belmont	1703	Governor-General	French
M. de Phelypeau	1711	Governor-General	French
The Marquis Duquene	1715	Governor-General	French
The Marquis de la Varenne	1717	Governor-General	French
The Chevalier de Feuquieres	1717	Governor-General	French
Captain Nathaniel Uring	1722	Deputy-Governor	British
Charles de Tubières de Caylus	1744	Governor-General	French
M. de Longueville	1745	Governor-General	French
Pierre Lucien de La Chapelle de Jumilhac	1763–1764	Governor	French
The Count d'Ennery	1768	Governor-General	French
Baron de Micoud	1769	Lieutenant-Governor	French
George Brydges Rodney	1762–1763	commander-in-chief of the Leeward Isles	British
Claude Anne de Micoud	1764–1771		French
The Chevalier Claude Anne Gui de Micoud	1771–1772	Lieutenant Governor	French
Frédéric Laure de Kearney	1772–1773	Lieutenant Governor	French
Alexandre Potier de Courcy	1775–1775	Lieutenant Governor	French
Marc Étienne de Joubert	1776–1776	Lieutenant Governor	French
The Chevalier Claude Anne Gui de Micoud	1776–1781	Lieutenant Governor	French
General Anthony St Leger	1781–1783	Lieutenant Governor	British
Barron Jean Zénon André de Véron de Laborie	1784–1789	Governor	French
Colonel Jean-Joseph Sourbader de Gimat	1789–1792	Governor	French
Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse	1792 - 1793	Military Commissioner in Guadeloupe	French
General Nicolas Xavier de Ricard	1793–1794	Governor	French
Colonel Sir Charles Gordon	1794–1795		British
James Stewart	1795		British
Gaspard Goyrand	1795–1796	Commissary	British
General John Moore	1796–1797	Lieutenant Governor	British
Colonel James Drummond	1797–1798	Lieutenant Governor	British
General George Prevost	1798–1802	Lieutenant Governor	British
General George Henry Vansittart	1802	Lieutenant Governor	British
General Jean-François-Xavier Noguès	1802–1803	Lieutenant Governor	French

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
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
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
Captain Robert Mullen 1829
Major Francis Power 1829–1830
James Alexander Farquharson 1830–1831, Governor
George Mackie 1831, Governor
Mark Anthony Bozon 1831–1832
Colonel John Carter 1832
James Alexander Farquharson 1832–1834

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.