List of governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed explained

Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, including the garrison at Holy Island (during English occupation of the Royal Burgh):

Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed

For Scotland

• 1295 -1296 Sir William Douglas
• 1328 - 1333 Sir Alexander de Seton, Lord of Seton & Winchburgh^[1]
• 1333 Sir William Keith
• 1333 Patrick de Dunbar

For England

• 1302: Edmund Hasting
• 1440-?: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland

For Scotland

• 1461 Sir Robert Lauder
• 1473-1476: David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
• 1478: Sir Robert Lauder (again)
• 1482: Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes

For England

• 1484-?: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
• ?–1539: Sir Thomas Clifford
• 1539–?: William Eure, 1st Baron Eure (died 1548)
• 1553–?: John Conyers, 3rd Baron Conyers (died 1557)
• 1559–1562: William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton
• 1564-1568: Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
• 1568-1596: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
• 1596–1598: John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon
• 1598-1601: Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
• 1601–1603: John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon (2nd term)
• c.1610: Sir James Dundas of Arniston^[2]
• 1639-?: Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
• 1649–: Colonel George Fenwick
• 1660-1675: William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington
• 1675-1686: Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• 1686-1688: William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington
• 1689–1690: Philip Babington
• 1691–1699: Richard Leveson (died 1699)
• 1702–1707: Edmund Maine

For Great Britain (post 1707 Act of Union)

• 1707–1711: Edmund Maine
• 1713–1715: Sir Henry Belasyse
• 1715–1718: Charles Wills
• 1718–1719: George MacCartney
• 1719–1732: Joseph Sabine
• 1732–1733: George Wade
• 1733–1735: Rich Russell
• 1735–1740: Philip Honywood
• 1740–1741: Thomas Whetham
• 1742: James Tyrrell
• 1742–1753: Thomas Howard
• 1753–1765: John Guise
• 1765–1778: Robert Monckton^[3]
• 1778: Sir John Clavering^[4] (in fact Clavering had died in the East Indies the previous year)
• 1778–1780: Sir John Mordaunt
• 1780–1795: Hon. John Vaughan
• 1795–1808: Hon. William Howe, later Viscount Howe
• 1808–1833: Banastre Tarleton
• 1833–1850: Sir James Bathurst

Lieutenant-Governors

• 1702–1705: Edward Nott^[5]
• 1705: William Dobyns^[6]
• ?–1733: Rich Russell
• 1733–1737: James St. Clair
• 1737–1747: John Price^[7]
• 1749–1764: John Barrington
• 1765?-1767: Roderick Gwynne
• 1767–1793: William Hill
• 1793–1794: Gerard Lake
• 1794–1795: Edmund Stevens
• 1795–?1842: George Ludlow

References

• The London Gazette

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sir Alexander de Seton. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111006212806/http://www.cyberancestors.com/cummins/ps111/ps111_291.htm. 2011-10-06.
2. http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst1574.html Gazetteer for Scotland
3. John Brooke, MONCKTON, Hon. Robert (1726-82). in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790, 1964.
4. [Robert Beatson]
5. Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, volume V (London, 1902) page 156.
6. Dalton, English Army Lists, volume V, page 158.
7. Notes and Queries, 12th series, volume III, page 11. 6 January 1917.