Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, including the garrison at Holy Island (during English occupation of the Royal Burgh):
Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed
For Scotland
- 1295 -1296 Sir William Douglas
- 1328 - 1333 Sir Alexander de Seton, Lord of Seton & Winchburgh [1]
- 1333 Sir William Keith
- 1333 Patrick de Dunbar
For England
- 1302: Edmund Hasting
- 1440-?: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
For Scotland
- 1461 Sir Robert Lauder
- 1474: David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
- 1478: Sir Robert Lauder (again)
- 1482: Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes
For England
- 1484-?: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
- ?–1539: Sir Thomas Clifford
- 1539–?: William Eure, 1st Baron Eure (died 1548)
- 1553–?: John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers (died 1557)
- 1559–1562: William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton
- 1564-1568: Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
- 1568-1596: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
- 1596–1598: John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon
- 1598-1601: Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
- 1601–1603: John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon (2nd term)
- c.1610: Sir James Dundas of Arniston[2]
- 1639-?: Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
- 1649–: Colonel George Fenwick
- 1660-1675: William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington
- 1675-1686: Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 1686-1688: William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington
- 1689–1690: Philip Babington
- 1691–1699: Richard Leveson (died 1699)
- 1702–1707: Edmund Maine
For Great Britain (post 1707 Act of Union)
- 1707–1711: Edmund Maine
- 1713–1715: Sir Henry Belasyse
- 1715–1718: Charles Wills
- 1718–1719: George MacCartney
- 1719–1732: Joseph Sabine
- 1732–1733: George Wade[3]
- 1733–1735: Rich Russell[4]
- 1735–1740: Philip Honywood[5]
- 1740–1741: Thomas Whetham[6]
- 1742: James Tyrrell[7]
- 1742–1753: Thomas Howard[8]
- 1753–1765: John Guise[9]
- 1765–1778: Robert Monckton[10]
- 1778: Sir John Clavering[11] (in fact Clavering had died in the East Indies the previous year)
- 1778–1780: Sir John Mordaunt[12]
- 1780–1795: Hon. John Vaughan[13]
- 1795–1808: Hon. William Howe, later Viscount Howe[14]
- 1808–1833: Banastre Tarleton[15]
- 1833–1850: Sir James Bathurst[16]
Lieutenant-Governors
- 1702–1705: Edward Nott[17]
- 1705: William Dobyns[18]
- ?–1733: Rich Russell
- 1733–1737: James St. Clair[19]
- 1737–1747: John Price[20]
- 1749–1764: John Barrington[21]
- 1765?-1767: Roderick Gwynne
- 1767–1793: William Hill[22]
- 1793–1794: Gerard Lake[23]
- 1794–1795: Edmund Stevens[24]
- 1795–?1842: George Ludlow[25]
References
- ^ http://www.cyberancestors.com/cummins/ps111/ps111_291.htm
- ^ Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ "No. 7097". The London Gazette. 3 June 1732. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 7205". The London Gazette. 16 June 1733. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 7428". The London Gazette. 12 August 1735. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 7909". The London Gazette. 10 May 1740. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 8119". The London Gazette. 15 May 1742. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 8161". The London Gazette. 9 October 1742. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 9264". The London Gazette. 1 May 1753. p. 2.
- ^ John Brooke, MONCKTON, Hon. Robert (1726-82). in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790, 1964.
- ^ Robert Beatson, A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2 (London, 1806), page 157
- ^ "No. 11867". The London Gazette. 18 April 1778. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 12132". The London Gazette. 31 October 1780. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 13801". The London Gazette. 1 August 1795. p. 805.
- ^ "No. 16122". The London Gazette. 23 February 1808. p. 284.
- ^ "No. 19019". The London Gazette. 5 February 1833. p. 247.
- ^ Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, volume V (London, 1902) page 156.
- ^ Dalton, English Army Lists, volume V, page 158.
- ^ "No. 7205". The London Gazette. 16 June 1733. p. 1.
- ^ Notes and Queries, 12th series, volume III, page 11. 6 January 1917.
- ^ "No. 8874". The London Gazette. 8–12 August 1749. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 10767". The London Gazette. 26–29 September 1767. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 13583". The London Gazette. 19–22 October 1793. p. 926.
- ^ "No. 13706". The London Gazette. 20–23 September 1794. p. 963.
- ^ "No. 13796". The London Gazette. 14–18 July 1795. p. 743.