Government Officers of St. Vincent

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ST. VINCENT GOVERNMENT OFFICERS

This set of records includes Privy Council matters & other local political appointments found in records at the National Archives (formerly Public Records Office – PRO, in UK) and some newspaper and book notices.

Some of the extracts on this page were transcribed by researcher CINDY KILGORE, who has kindly allowed us to use them here.

SEE ALSO: 1779 Almanack

AITKEN, Robert (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 27 April 1858

ALVES, William Gemmell (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council- 21 Oct. 1856

ANDERSON, Alexander – Surgeon and Botanist. Caretaker of the St. Vincent Botanic Garden from 1785 to 1811.

ANTON, George (Esq.) – (Registrar of the Supreme Court), to be an Official Member of the Legislative Council – 09 March 1901

ARRINDELL, Richard – Named as a member of His Majesty’s Council of the island in the 02 May 1829 marriage announcement of his sister Eliza ARRINDELL to John PRIMROSE, Esq. – 01 July 1829

ASHWELL/ATHWELL, Charles (Esq.) – To be secretary, register, clerk of the council, and clerk of the inrolments 1782 – 1783

AUDAIN, John – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

AUDAIN, John (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council & the Executive Council – 27 April 1858

BARNARD, Sir John – Report of Advocate General on memorial of Sir John BARNARD, registrar of Admiralty Court – 15 Feb 1799

BENTINCK, Capt. William (Esq.) – William BENTINCK, Esq. appointed Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Island of St. Vincent, Bequia, and other such islands called the Grenadines — taking the place of James SETON, Esq. – 14 April 1797

BERKELEY, George (Esq.) – (now Colonial Secretary for the colony of British Honduras), to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of St. Vincent – 09 June 1845

BROWNE, George McIntosh (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

CALEY, George – Curator of Botanical Gardens 1816 to December 1822

CAMERON, Edward John (Esq.) – Administrator of the Island of St. Vincent to the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George-C.M.G. – 30 June 1905

CAMPBELL, Duncan – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 1776

CAMPBELL, Sir John – Appointed Lieutenant-Governor

CARUTH, Peter – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 06 Dec. 1861

CHAPMAN, Robert – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 27 April 1858

CHECKLEY, Robert (M. D.) – Appointed to Commission for the International Exhibition of 1862 – August 1861

CHOPPIN, James Clement – Appointed Solicitor-General – 26 March 1853

CHOPPIN, James Clement (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 18 February 1861

CLAREMONT, George William Frederick (Capt.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 14 Dec. 1872

CLOKE, Edward John (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 25 October 1869

COLLINS, John – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 1776

COULL, James George (Esq.) – Appointed to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Council – 14 December 1892

COWDREY, ?? – Appointed to House of Assembly – 1831

COWIE, David – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 06 Dec. 1861

COWIE, David – Appointed to Commission for the International Exhibition of 1862 – August 1861

COWIE, David (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 23 June 1864

COWIE, David (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 25 Oct. 1869

CURTIS, Roger William (Esq.) – Appointed to be Civil Engineer for the Island – 30 May 1855

deFREITAS, Anthony (Esq.) – Chief Justice and Acting Administrator of the Island of St. Vincent for services in connexion with the war – March 1918

DENTON, George Chardin (Esq.) – From Chief of Police for the Island of St. Vincent to Colonial Secretary for Lagos (formerly Capt. in the Army) – 04 March 1888

D’OYLEY, John (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 23 June 1864

DRAPE, ?? – Appointed to House of Assembly – 1831

DUNDAS, George (Esq. C. M. G.) – Currently Lt. – Governor of St. Vincent but appointed to both the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Island – 27 Dec. 1877

DURRANT, Frederick Chester Wells (Esq.) – Appointed to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council – 25 July 1896

EYRE, Edward John (Esq.) – Appointed Lieutenant-Governor for the Island – 06 Nov. 1854

FRENCH, J – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 1794

GERARD, Archibald – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 25 Oct. 1869

GLASGOW, Robert – from hospital mate in the West Indies, to surgeon to the forces in the Island of St. Vincent’s as of 10 December 1785 – 10 Dec. 1785

GLASGOW, Robert – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 26 Sept 1796

GODDARD, Fitzroy Pleydell (Esq.) – From Her Majesty’s Consul in St. Vincent to same post in Corsica, to reside at Ajaccio – 15 June 1885

GORDON, Robert – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 15 July 1799

GORE, Augustus Frederick (Esq.) – From Lt. Gov. of Tobago to be Admin. of the Govt. and Colonial Secretary for St. Vincent – 04 May 1880

GRAHAM, James (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

GRANT, James Mayer (Esq.) – Appointed Treasurer – 27 March 1854

GRANT, James Mayer (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

GRANT, James Mayer – Appointed to Commission for the International Exhibition of 1862 – August 1861

GREG, John – One of the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for the Sale and Disposal of Lands in the Ceded Islands – 1760′s

HAGART, James McCaul (Lt. Col., C. B.) – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 31 March 1862

HAWTAYNE, George Hammond – Appointed to Commission for the International Exhibition of 1862 – August 1861

HAZELL, Henry (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 09 March 1887

HAZELL, Henry Arrindell (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 30 Nov. 1880

HAZELL, John Hercules – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 06 August 1862

HAZELL, John L. – Appointed to House of Assembly – 1831

HINCKS, Francis (Esq.) – Was Governor for St. Vincent but appointed to same post for British Guiana – 05 Dec. 1861

HUGHES, John James (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Council – 14 May 1855

HUGHES, John James (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

HUGHES, William Edwin (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 04 August 1881

HUGHES, William Edwin (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 09 March 1887

HUNT, John – One of the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for the Sale and Disposal of Lands in the Ceded Islands – 1760′s

IRWIN, Alexander Burrows – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 16 July 1798

JACKSON, Josias – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 21 Sept 1791

KINGDON, Alfred (Esq.) – Acting Attorney General for St. Vincent appointed to be Solicitor General for British Guiana – 03 March 1887

LABORDE, Edward (Esq.) – Appointed Provost-Marshal – 02 Aug. 1860

LABORDE, Edward – (Esq., C. M. G.) – From Admin. of St. Vincent to Admin. of the Windward Islands – 16 April 1888

LABORDE, Edward Daniel (Esq.) – (Chief of Police), to be a Member of the Executive Council – 09 March 1901

LABORDE, Horatio William (Rev.) – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 14 April 1866

LE GALL, John (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

LEWIS, Albert (Esq.) – Appointed one of Her Majesty’s Counsel – 27 August 1879

LEWIS, Allan (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 23 June 1864

LEYBOURNE, William Leybourne (Esq.) – Was Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Islands of Granada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, and Tobago in 1771.

LINCOLN, Edmund (Esq.) – Was appointed to be captain-general and governor in chief in and over St. Vincent, Bequia, and such other the islands, commonly called the Grenadines – 1783

LLEWELYN, Robert Baxter (Esq.) – From Admin. of Tobago to same post for St. Vincent – 08 March 1888

LYNCH, William – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 06 August 1862

LYNCH, William, (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 09 March 1887

MacDONALD, Duncan A. (Esq.) – Appointed to be member of the Executive Council – 03 January 1894

MacDONNELL, Richard Graves (Esq., C. B.) – Now Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Gambia, to be Lieutenant-Governor – 23 Feb. 1852

MacDONNELL, Richard Graves (Esq., C. B.) – Was Lieutenant-Governor in 1854 but appointed to a similar post in South Australia – 06 Nov. 1854

McKENZIE, William (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 27 April 1858

McLEOD, Alexander – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

MALING, Irwin Charles (Esq.) – (Colonial Secretary of Grenada), to be Administrator of the Government of the Island of St. Vincent and its dependencies – 18 May 1889

MALING, Irwin Charles (Esq.) – Administrator of the Island of St. Vincent to the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George – 01 January 1892

MELVILLE, ?? – Appointed to House of Assembly – 1831

MUSGRAVE, Anthony (Esq.) – Appointed Lieutenant-Governor for the Island – 13 May 1862

MUSGRAVE, Anthony (Esq.) – (now Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of St. Vincent) to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the island of Newfoundland and its dependencies – 29 July 1864

OTTLEY, Thomas – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 1776

OTTLEY, Richard – Esq. – letter from Governor MELVILLE, dated March 1st, 1766, relating to his appointment of Richard OTTLEY, Esq., to be Lt. Governor of St. Vincent, in the room of Mr. HIGGINSON, deceased – 1766

PORTER, Alexander – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 17 Oct. 1885

PORTER, David Kennedy – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 25 Oct. 1869

PROUDFOOT, John Blair – Appointed Member of the Legislative Council – 19 Sept. 1882

RAWSON, Rawson William (C. B.) – Appointed Governor for the Island – 15 April 1869

REILLY, John (Esq.) – Appointed Police Magistrate for the district of Kingston* – 05 March 1858

RENNIE, William Hepburn (Esq.) – Appointed Lieutenant-Governor – 09 March 1874

ROBERTSON, Richard – Appointed Member Of The Executive Council - 30 January 1826

ROSS, ?? – Appointed to House of Assembly – 1831

ROSS, William (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

SHARPE, Henry Edward – Appointed Chief Justice – 15 Oct. 1846

SHAW, Henry (Esq.) – Appointed Treasurer – 28 July 1864

SHAW, Walter Sidney (Esq.) – Barrister-at-Law, to be Chief Justice of the Island of St. Vincent – 15 Feb. 1908

SHAW, W. S. (Esq.) – (Chief Justice), to be a Member of the Executive Council and an official Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of St. Vincent – 20 Feb. 1908

SIMMONS, Charles James (Esq.) – Reppointed to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Council – 22 September 1892

SIMMONS, Charles James (Esq.) – Appointed to be member of the Executive Council – 03 January 1894

SIMMONS, Conrad Johnson (Esq.) – Barrister-at-law, to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council – 24 Jan. 1907

SIMPSON, James – Appointed the King’s Surveyor for the Sale and Disposal of Lands in the Ceded Islands -1760′s

SMITH, George (Esq., Q. C.) – Appointed to be a member of the Executive Council – 02 July 1890

STEWART, Charles Douglas – Appointed Attorney-General – 26 March 1853

STEWART, Charles Douglas (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Council – 19 June 1854

STEWART, Charles Douglas (Esq.) – Appointed Member of the Executive Council – 21 Oct. 1856

STEWART, Charles Douglas (Hon.) – Appointed to Commission for the International Exhibition of 1862

STEWART, Robert – One of the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for the Sale and Disposal of Lands in the Ceded Islands – 1760′s

SUTHERLAND, ?? – Appointed to House of Assembly – 1831

THACKER, Ransley Samuel – Appointed Chief Justice and Police Magistrate

THOMPSON, Harry Langhorne (Esq.) – Administrator of the Island of St. Vincent and its Dependencies to the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George – 23 May 1900

THORNTON, Swinford Leslie (Esq.) – Barrister-at-law (Registrar, Supreme Court, and Commissioner of the Court of Requests, Malaces, Straits Settlements), to be Attorney-General – 16 April 1894

TYLER, Captain George – Of the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Governor, knighted by the Queen – 19 Nov. 1838

VERRALL, Percy Wilfred – Appointed member of the Executive Council on July 14, 1937

WALKER, James (Esq., C. B.) – Appointed Governor for St. Vincent – 05 Dec. 1861

WARNER, Charles John – Appointed to His Majesty’s Council – 15 July 1799

WARNER, Thomas H. – Appointed to House of Assembly – 1831

WILLIAMS, George Cyril Griffith – Appointed Chief Justice and Police Magistrate – January 1935

WILSON, James (Esq.) – Named as a member of the Council for St. Vincent in his death notice. He was of Cane Grove, St. Vincent and Yorkshire, England – 09 Sept. 1830

WOOLDRIDGE, Hon. Thomas – Was Provost Marshal General of the quit-rents in 1771

WRIGHT, William Maturin (Lt., R. N.) – Appointed Treasurer for the Island – 11 May 1862

WYLLY, William – Appointed Chief Justice (He died in 1828) – 1823

WYNNE, Robert – One of the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for the Sale and Disposal of Lands in the Ceded Islands – 1760′s

YOUNG, George – M. D., Surgeon to the Forces, First curator of the St. Vincent Botanic Garden, 1765 – 1774.

YOUNG, William – One of the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty for the Sale and Disposal of Lands in the Ceded Islands – 1760′s. Sir William YOUNG was a West Indian magnate, bring Governor of the islands of St. Vincent and Dominica. He owned three sugar plantations in St. Vincent [Calliaqua was one of them], two in Tobago, two in Antigua, and one in Dominica. In 1769, he was made a baronet, and at the time of his death, his estates’ combined worth was estmiated at more than 200,000 British pounds.