List of Governors of the Gold Coast

List of Governors of the Gold Coast

This is a list of colonial administrators in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) from the start of English presence in 1621 until Ghana's independence from the United Kingdom in 1957.

Contents

Governors of the Gold Coast (16211751)

  • Sir William St. John, 16211623
  • William Greenhill, 1660
  • Henry Nurse, 1685
  • John Bloome, 1691
  • Baggs, 16971701
  • Thomas Dalby, 17011708

Governors of the Committee of Merchants of the Gold Coast (17511822)

  • Thomas Melvil, 23 June 175123 January 1756
  • William Tymewell, 23 January 175617 February 1756
  • Charles Bell, 17 February 175615 October 1757, first time
  • Nassau Senior, 15 October 175710 May 1761, acting
  • Charles Bell, 10 May 176115 August 1763, second time
  • William Mutter, 15 August 17631 March 1766
  • John Hippersley, 1 March 176611 August 1766
  • Gilbert Petrie, 11 August 176621 April 1769
  • John Crossle, 21 April 176911 August 1770
  • David Mill, 11 August 177020 January 1777
  • Richard Miles, 20 January 177725 March 1780, first time
  • John Roberts, 25 March 178020 May 1781
  • John B. Weuves, 20 May 178129 April 1782, acting
  • Richard Miles, 29 April 178229 January 1784, second time
  • James Morgue, 29 January 178424 January 1787
  • Thomas Price, 24 January 178727 April 1787
  • Thomas Morris, 27 April 178720 June 1789
  • William Fielde, 20 June 178915 November 1791
  • John Gordon, 15 November 179131 March 1792, first time
  • Archibald Dalzel, 31 March 179216 December 1798, first time
  • Jacob Mould, 16 December 17984 January 1799, first time
  • John Gordon, 4 January 179928 April 1800, second time
  • Archibald Dalzel, 28 April 180030 September 1802, second time
  • Jacob Mould, 30 September 18028 February 1805, second time
  • George Torrane, 8 February 18054 December 1807
  • Edward White, 4 December 180721 April 1816
  • Joseph Dawson, 21 April 181619 January 1817
  • John Hope Smith, 19 January 181727 March 1822

Governors of the Gold Coast (18221828)

  • Sir Charles MacCarthy, 27 March 182217 May 1822, first time
  • James Chisholm, 17 May 1822December 1822, first time
  • Sir Charles MacCarthy, December 182221 January 1824, second time
  • James Chisholm, 21 January 182417 October 1824, second time
  • Edward Purdon, 17 October 182422 March 1825
  • Charles Turner, 22 March 18258 March 1826
  • Sir Neil Campbell, 18 May 182615 November 1826
  • Henry John Ricketts, 15 November 182611 October 1827, first time
  • Hugh Lumley, 11 October 182710 March 1828
  • George Hingston, 10 March 18285 June 1828
  • Henry John Ricketts, 5 June 182825 June 1828, second time

Governors of the Committee of Merchants of the Gold Coast (18281843)

  • John Jackson, 25 June 182819 February 1830
  • George Maclean, 19 February 183026 June 1836, first time
  • William Topp, 26 June 183615 August 1838
  • George Maclean, 15 August 18381843, second time

Governors of the Gold Coast (18431960)

In 1843 a governor was appointed subordinate to the Governor of Sierra Leone until 1850. After the Ashanti Wars of 1873-74, the Gold Coast was formally declared a crown colony.

  • Henry Worsley Hill, 18438 March 1845
  • James Lelley, 8 March 184515 April 1846
  • William Winniett, 15 April 184631 January 1849, first time
  • James Coleman Fitzpatrick, 31 January 184913 January 1850
  • Sir William Winniett, 13 January 18504 December 1850, second time
  • James Bannerman, 4 December 185014 October 1851
  • Stephen John Hill, 14 October 1851December 1854
  • Henry Connor, December 1854March 1857, acting
  • Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine, March 1857April 1858
  • Henry Bird, April 185820 April 1860, acting
  • Edward B. Andrews, 20 April 186014 April 1862
  • William A. Ross, 14 April 186220 September 1862, acting
  • Richard Pine, 20 September 18621865
  • Rokeby Jones, 1865, acting
  • W. E. Mockler, 1865, acting
  • Edward Conran, April 1865February 1867
  • Herbert Taylor Ussher, February 1867April 1872, first time
  • John Pope Hennessy, April 18721872
  • Charles Spencer Salmon, 1872September 1872, acting
  • Robert William Keate 7 Mar 1873 - 17 Mar 1873
  • Robert William Harley, September 18722 October 1873
  • Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 2 October 18734 March 1874
  • James Maxwell, 4 March 187430 March 1874, acting
  • Charles Lees, 30 March 1874June 1874, acting, first time
  • George Cumine Strahan, June 18747 April 1876
  • Charles Lees, 7 April 1876December 1876, acting, second time
  • Sanford Freeling, December 187613 May 1878, acting to 5 June 1877
  • Charles Lees, 13 May 1878June 1879, acting, third time
  • Herbert Taylor Ussher, June 18791 December 1880, second time
  • William Brandford Griffith, 1 December 18804 March 1881, acting, first time
  • Sir Samuel Rowe, 4 March 188129 April 1884
  • W. A. G. Young, 29 April 188424 April 1885
  • William Brandford Griffith, 24 April 18857 April 1895, second time
  • William Edward Maxwell, 7 April 18956 December 1897
  • Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, 6 December 189729 August 1900, acting to 29 May 1898
  • W. Low, 29 August 190017 December 1900, acting
  • Sir Matthew Nathan, 17 December 19009 February 1904
  • Herbert Bryan, 9 February 19043 March 1904, acting, first time
  • John Pickersgill Rodger, 3 March 19041 September 1910
  • Herbert Bryan, 1 September 191020 November 1910, acting, second time
  • James Jamieson Thorburn, 21 November 191029 June 1912
  • Herbert Bryan, 29 June 191226 December 1912, acting, third time
  • Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, 26 December 19121 April 1919
  • Alexander Ransford Slater, 1 April 19198 October 1919, acting, first time
  • Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, 9 October 191924 April 1927
  • Sir James Crawford Maxwell, 24 April 19275 June 1927, acting
  • John Maxwell, 5 June 1927July 1927, acting
  • Sir Alexander Ransford Slater, July 19275 April 1932, second time
  • Geoffrey Northcote, 5 April 193229 November 1932, acting, first time
  • Sir Shenton Thomas, 30 November 193213 May 1934
  • Geoffrey Northcote, 13 May 193423 October 1934, acting, second time
  • Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson, 24 October 193424 October 1941
  • George Ernest London, 24 October 194129 June 1942, acting
  • Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns, 29 June 19422 August 1947
  • Sir Gerald Hallen Creasy, 12 January 194815 February 1949
  • Sir Robert Scott, 15 February 194928 March 1949, acting, first time
  • Thorleif Rattray Orde Mangin, 28 March 194911 June 1949, acting
  • Sir Robert Scott, 11 June 194911 August 1949, acting, second time
  • Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, 11 August 19496 March 1957
  • Lord Listowell, March 1957 - July 1960

In 1957, the Gold Coast and British Togoland, became the independent country of Ghana. The viceroy in the new country was the Governor-General of Ghana.

See also

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