Government Officers of St. Vincent
Posted on October 7, 2006
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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.
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searching for any info on ANTHONY HART HOBSON about 1840-1860 AND JOHN HENRY HOBSON early 1800s – Chief Justice at some time
Dear Angelwatch7
I am a direct descendant of John Henry Hobson, Anthony Hart Hobson and Anthony Pemberton Hobson. All three held posts in the colonial administration of St Vincent. John Henry was the Chief Justice in the 1820s, his son Anthony Hart was the Provost Marshall as was his son up to 1867 I think. A.P. was also the Inspector-General of Police on St Vincent.
I have some more information and would be willing to help you further.
David Hobson