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'List of Colonial Heads of the British Windward Islands'
(Dates in italics indicate ''de facto ''continuation of office)

Term	Incumbent	Notes
'British Suzerainty'
1800 to 1806	'Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth', Governor	Governor of Barbados
'The British Windward Islands'
1833 to 1836	Sir 'Lionel Smith', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1836 to 1841	Sir 'Evan John Murray MacGregor', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1841	'Charles Henry Darling', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1841 to 1846	Sir 'Charles Edward Grey', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1846 to 1848	'William Reid', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1848 to 1856	'William MacBean George Colebrooke', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1856 to 1859	'Francis Hincks', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1859 to 1868	'James Walker', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1868 to ''1871''	'Rawson William Rawson', Governor	Governor of Barbados
'Federal Colony of the Windward Islands'
''1871'' to 1875	'Rawson William Rawson', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1875 to 1875	'Sanford Freeling', acting Governor	Governor of Barbados
1875 to 1876	Sir 'John Pope Hennessy', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1876 to 1880	'George Cumine Strahan', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1880 to 1880	'D.J. Gamble', acting Governor	Governor of Barbados
1880 to 1885	'William Robinson', Governor	Governor of Barbados
1885 to 1888	Sir 'Walter Joseph Sendall', Governor
1889 to 1892	Sir 'Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson', Governor
1893 to 1897	Sir 'Charles Bruce', Governor
1897 to 1900	Sir 'Cornelius Alfred Moloney', Governor
1900 to 1906	Sir 'Robert Baxter Llewelyn', Governor
1906 to 1909	Sir 'Ralph Champneys Williams', Governor
1909 to 1914	Sir 'James Hayes Sadler', Governor
1914 to 1923	Sir 'George Basil Haddon-Smith', Governor
1924 to 1930	Sir 'Frederick Seton James', Governor
1930 to 1935	Sir 'Thomas Alexander Best', Governor
1935 to 19 January 1937	Sir 'Selwyn MacGregor Grier', Governor
19 January 1937 to ''1938''	'Henry Bradshaw Popham', Governor
''1938'' to 18 May 1942	Sir 'Henry Bradshaw Popham', Governor
18 May 1942 to 1948	Sir 'Arthur Grimble', Governor
1948 to 1953	Sir 'Robert Duncan Harris Arundell', Governor
1953 to 1955	'Edward Betham Beetham', Governor
1955 to ''1 July 1956''	'Colville Montgomery Deverell', Governor
'Territory of the Windward Islands'
''1 July 1956'' to ''1957''	'Colville Montgomery Deverell', Governor
''1957'' to 1 January 1960	Sir 'Colville Montgomery Deverell', Governor
1 January 1960	''territory dissolved''

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Notes

★ From 1833 - 1885 Barbados was part of the Windward Islands ''(with the governor of Barbados also being governor of the Windward Islands)''

★ Saint Lucia joins in 1838 and remains until 1960.

★ Barbados exits in 1885, Grenada becames the new seat of Governor until 1960.

★ Tobago exits the windward islands while-under Grenada in 1889, after joining in 1833.

★ In 1940 Dominica exits the neighbouring Leeward Islands, and joins the Windward Islands until 1960.

★ Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were in the union longest from 1833 until 1960.
The Windward Islands comprised the present-day independent states of Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tobago.

Source

★ Rulers.org - Barbados

★ WorldStatesmen- Grenada