- List of Governors of the Isle of Wight
Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of the Isle of Wight:
Governors of the Isle of Wight
*1538-1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (later Earl of Essex)
*1558-?: John Paulet, 2nd Baron St John (later Marquess of Winchester)
*1633-1642:
Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
*1642-1647:Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
*1647-1647:Captain Hammond
*1648-1659:Colonel William Sydenham
*1660:Anthony Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
*1660-1661:Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland *1684-1690:
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton *1693: Hon. Thomas Tollemache
*1693-1707:John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
*1707-1710:Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton
*1710-1715: General John Richmond Webb
*1715-1726: William Cadogan (later Earl Cadogan)
*1726-1733:Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
*1733-1734:John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
*1734-1742:John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth
*1742-1746:Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
*1746-1762:John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth
*1763-1764:Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes *1766-1770:
Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton *1782-1791:
Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton *1841-1857:
William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury *1889-1896:
Prince Henry of Battenberg
*1896-1944:Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom *1957-1965:
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington *1992-1995:
David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone ources
* [http://www.gazette-online.co.uk/ The London Gazette]
* Robert Walcott, "English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)
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