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 in England. Lord Mottistone was the last lord lieutenant to hold the title governor, from 1992 to 1995; since then there has been no governor appointed.

Governors of the Isle of Wight

1509–1520: Sir Nicholas Wadham (1472-1542) of Merryfield and Edge, "Captain of the Isle of Wight".Virgoe, Roger, Biography of Wadham, Sir Nicholas (by 1472-1542), of Merrifield, nr. Ilton, Som., Published in The History of Parliament: House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 1520–1538: Sir James Worsley 1538–1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (later Earl of Essex) 1540–1553: Richard Worsley 1553–1558: Sir William Girling 1558–1560: William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester 1560–1565: Richard Worsley (reappointed) 1565–1583: Sir Edward Horsey 1583–1603: George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon 1603–1624: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton 1633–1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland 1642–1647: Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 1647–1647: Robert Hammond 1648–1659: William Sydenham 1660: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 1660–1661: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland 1661–1667: Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper 1668–1692: Sir Robert Holmes 1693: Thomas Tollemache 1693–1707: John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts 1707–1710: Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton 1710–1715: 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 Viscount Lymington 1742–1746: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton 1746–1762: John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth 1763–1764: Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes 1764–1766: Hans Stanley 1766–1770: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton 1770–1780: Hans Stanley 1780–1782: Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet 1782–1791: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton 1791–1807: Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton 1807–1841: James Harris, 2nd Earl of Malmesbury 1841–1857: William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury 1857–1888: Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley 1889–1896: Prince Henry of Battenberg 1896–1944: Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom 1957–1965: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington 1965–1974: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Lord Lieutenant 1974–1979) 1992–1995: David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone

Lieutenant-governors of the Isle of Wight c.1689–1693: William Stephens 1694–1701: Joseph Dudley 1702–1710: Anthony Morgan 1710–1714: Henry Holmes 1715–1729: Anthony Morgan 1731–1733: Maurice Morgan 1733–1751: Charles Armand PowlettThe Historical Register, 1733 1754–1762: Henry Holmes 1763–1766: John Stanwix ?1766–1768: John MompessonThe Scots Magazine, Volume 30, page 615 1768–1795: William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe 1795–1798: Sir Ralph Abercrombie 1798–1808: Sir William Medows 1808–1812: Francis Edward Gwyn 1812–1815: Charles Leigh 1815–1839: Mervyn ArchdallNew Army List, 1839 Deputy Governors 1899–1910: Thomas Belhaven Henry Cochrane 1910–1913: Francis John Stuart Hay-Newton 1913–1928: Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson

See also Isle of Wight Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight

References

Sources The London Gazette Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)