List of colonial governors and administrators of Nevis

This is a list of viceroys in Nevis from the island's settlement by English in 1628 until its union with Saint Kitts and Anguilla to form Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla in 1883.

Governors of Nevis (1628–1685)

• Anthony Hilton, 1628–1629
• George Hay, 1629–1630
• Anthony Hilton, 1630–1631, second time
• Thomas Littleton, 1631–1634
• Luke Stokes, 1634–1635, first time
• Thomas Sparrow, 1635–1637
• Henry Huncks, 1637–1638
• John Jennings, 1639
• Jenkin Lloyd, 1640
• John Meakem, 1640–1641
• John Kettleby, 1641
• Jacob Lake, 1641–1649
• Luke Stokes, 1649–1657, second time
• James Russell, 1657–1671
• Sir William Stapleton, 1672–1685

Deputy Governors of Nevis (1672–1737)

• Randall Russell, 1672–1676
• William Burt, 1685
• James Russell, 1685–1687
• John Netheway, 1687–1691
• Samuel Gardner, 1692–1699
• Roger Elrington, 1699–1702
• John Johnson, 1703–1706
• Walter Hamilton, 1706–1712
• Daniel Smith, 1712–1722
• Charles Sibourg, 1722–1732
• William Hanmer, 1733–1737

Presidents of Nevis (1737–1882)

• Michael Smith, 1731–1744
• James Symonds, 1745–1756
• William Maynard, 1756–1761
• James Johnston, 1761–1771
• Joseph Richardson Herbert, 1771–1782
• François Claude Amour, Marquis de Bouille, 1782–1783 Governor (French occupation)
• Joseph Richardson Herbert, 1784–1793, restored
• James Daniell, 1807–1840
• Josiah Webbe Maynard, 1840–1841
• Ralph Cleghorn, 1841–1842
• Lawrence Graeme, 1842–1844
• Willoughby J. Shortland, 1845–1854
• Frederick Seymour, 1854–1857
• Sir Arthur Rumbold, 1857–1860
• George Cavell Webbe, 1860–1864
• James Watson Sheriff, 1864–1866
• Charles Monroe Eldridge, 1872–1873
• Alexander Augustus Melfort Campbell, 1873–1876
• Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy, 1876–1877
• Arthur Elibank Havelock, 1877–1878
• Charles Spencer Salmon, 1879–1882

In 1883 Nevis formed part of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, with a president on Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts). For a list of viceroys in Nevis following this, see List of colonial heads of Saint Christopher.

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