Grenada
 

to 1875                                1875 - 1903                             1903 - 3 Mar 1967               3 Mar 1967 - 7 Feb 1974                      Adopted 7 Feb 1974   Map of Grenada Hear National Anthem "Hail, Grenada" Text of National Anthem Adopted 1974 Constitution  (19 Dec 1973 ) Capital: Saint George's Currency: East Caribbean Dollar (XCD) National Holiday: 7 Feb (1974) Independence Day Population: 90,343 (2008) GDP: $1.21 billion (2008) Exports: $38 million (2006) Imports: $343 million (2006) Ethnic groups: black 51.7%, mixed black and European 40%, Indo-Pakistani 4%, white 0.4%, other 3.4%, and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian (2000) Total Active Paramiliary Forces: 755 (2003) Merchant marine: None (2008) Religions: Roman Catholic 57.8%, Protestant 37.6% (Anglican 14.4%, Pentecostal 8.3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 7%), other 4.6% (of which Rastafarian 3%) (1995) International Organizations/Treaties: ACP, ACS, AOSIS, APM, BTWC, C, Caricom, CDB, CTBT, CWC, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, ICSID, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IRENA (signatory), ISA, ITU, ITUC, KP, LAES, MIGA, NAM, NPT, OAS, OECS, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCC, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Grenada Index Chronology 15 Aug 1498                Discovered and claimed for Spain by Christopher                              Columbus, named Isla de Concepción. 1523                       Named on maps as Isla Granada. 1609 - 1609                Brief English settlement. 20 Jun 1650                French colony (La Grenade)(under the Compagnie des                              Indies Occidentales rule 1664 - 1674). 1649 - 1762                Part of French Antilles colony (see Martinique). 1674                       French crown colony.  5 Apr 1762                British occupation. 10 Feb 1763                British colony, recognized by France in Treaty                               of Paris. 1764 - 1802                Part of (British) Southern Caribbean (Caribbee)                              Islands colony (Dominica, St. Vincent, the                              Grenadines, Grenada, and Tobago).  4 Jul 1779 - Sep 1783     French occupation.  1 Apr 1833 -  1 Jan 1960  Part of the Windward Islands (Barbados [to 1885],                              Dominica [from 1940], Grenada, St. Lucia [from                               1838], St. Vincent, Tobago [to 1889]).  3 Jan 1958 - 31 May 1962  Part of the Federation of the West Indies                              (see Trinidad and Tobago).  3 Mar 1967                Associated state  7 Feb 1974                Independence from U.K. (Grenada)(in much official,                              but legally unsanctioned, use: Grenada,                              Carriacou, and Petite Martinique‏). 13 Mar 1979 - 25 Oct 1983  People's Revolutionary Government. 25 Oct 1983 -  6 Nov 1983  Occupied by U.S. and East Caribbean forces. Grenada (from 1649) Southern Caribbean Islands (1762-1802) Windward Islands (1871-1960)

Southern Caribbean (Caribbee) Islands

Governors-in-chief (also governors of Grenada)
Mar 1762 - 1802            the governors of Grenada

1871                       Federal Colony of the Windward Islands
 1 Jul 1956                Territory of the Windward Islands
 1 Jan 1960                Dissolved.

Governors (to 1885 also the governors of Barbados)
1833 - 1836                Sir Lionel Smith                   (b. 1778 - d. 1842)
1836 - 1841                Evan John Murray MacGregor         (b. 1785 - d. 1841)
                             (from 1839, Sir Evan John Murray MacGregor)
1841                       J. Brathwaite (acting)
1841 - 1842                Charles Henry Darling (acting)     (b. 1780 - d. 1845)
1842 - 1846                Sir Charles Edward Grey            (b. 1785 - d. 1865)
1846                       J.R. Best (acting)
1846 - 1848                William Reid                       (b. 1791 - d. 1858)
1848 - 1856                William Macbean George Colebrooke  (b. 1787 - d. 1870)
1856                       Grant E. Thomas (acting)
1856 -  4 Jan 1862         Francis Hincks                     (b. 1807 - d. 1885)
 4 Jan 1862 - 1868         James Walker                       (b. 1809 - d. 1885)
1868 - 1875                Rawson William Rawson              (b. 1812 - d. 1899)
1875                       Sanford Freeling (acting)          (b. 1828 - d. 1894)
1875 - 1876                Sir John Pope Hennessy             (b. 1834 - d. 1891)
20 Dec 1876 - 1880         George Cumine Strahan              (b. 1838 - d. 1889)
1880                       D.J. Gamble (acting)
1880 - 1885                William Robinson                   (b. 1836 - d. 1912)
1885 - 1888                Sir Walter Joseph Sendall          (b. 1833 - d. 1904)
1889 - 1892                Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson (b. 1849 - d. 1913)
1893 - 1897                Sir Charles Bruce                  (b. 1836 - d. 1920)
1897 - 1900                Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney       (b. 1848 - d. 1913)
1900 - 1906                Sir Robert Baxter Llewelyn         (b. 1845 - d. 1919)
1906 - 1909                Sir Ralph Champneys Williams       (b. 1848 - d. 1927)
Jun 1909 - Oct 1909        Edward John Cameron (acting)       (b. 1858 - d. 1947)
1909 - 1914                Sir James Hayes Sadler             (b. 1851 - d. 1922)
May 1914 - 1914            William Douglas Young (acting)     (b. 1859 - d. 1943)
1914 - 1923                Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith      (b. 1861 - d. 1931)
Nov 1923 - Jul 1924        Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston   (b. 1870 - d. 1960) 
                             (acting)
1924 - 1930                Sir Frederick Seton James          (b. 1870 - d. 1934)
Sep 1930 - 1935            Sir Thomas Alexander Vans Best     (b. 1870 - d. 1941)
1935 - 19 Jan 1937         Sir Selwyn MacGregor Grier         (b. 1878 - d. 1946)
19 Jan 1937 - 18 May 1942  Henry Bradshaw Popham              (b. 1881 - d. 1947)
                             (from 1938, Sir Henry Bradshaw Popham) 
18 May 1942 - 1948         Sir Arthur Francis Grimble         (b. 1888 - d. 1956)
1948 - 1953                Sir Robert Duncan Harris Arundell  (b. 1904 - d. 1989)
1953 - 1955                Edward Betham Beetham              (b. 1905 - d. 1979)
1955                       Wallace Macmillan (acting)         (b. 1913 - d. 1992)
1955 -  1 Jan 1960         Colville Montgomery Deverell       (b. 1907 - d. 1995)
                             (from 1 Jan 1957, Sir Colville Montgomery Deverell) 

Governors
1649 - Jul/Aug 1654        Jean Le Comte                      (d. 1654)
23 Sep 1654 - 1658         Louis Cacqueray de Valmenières
1658 - 1662                Jean III de Faudoas, comte de
                             Sérillac                         (b. 1600 - d. af.1672)
 8 Jul 1658 -  8 Oct 1659  François de Coussé, chevalier      (d. 1659)
                             du Bu (acting for Sérillac)
1662 - 1664                Jean IV de Faudoas
1664 - 1670                Vincent
1671 - 1674                Louis de Canchy de Lerole
1675 - 1679                Pierre de Sainte-Marthe de Lalande
1679 - 1680                Jacques de Chambly                 (d. 1687)
1680 - 1689                Nicholas de Gabaret                (d. 1712)
1690 - 1695                Louis Ancelin de Gemostat          (d. 1695)
1695? - 1696?              Jean-Léon Fournier de Carles de
                             Pradine
1696 - 1700                de Bellair de Saint-Aignan
1701 - 1708                Joseph de Bouloc                   (d. 1708)
1709 - 1710                Laurent de Valernod                (d. 1711)
1711 - 1715                Guillaume-Emmanuel-Théodore de     (d. 1725)
                             Maupeaou, comte de l'Estrange,
                             chevalier de Maupeou-Ribaudon
1716 - 1717                François, marquis de Pas de
                             Feuquières 
1717 -  3 Jan 1721         Jean-Michel L'Espinay de la        (b. c.1667 - d. 1721)
                             Longueville             
1721 - 1722                Jean Balthazar du Houx             (d. 1722)
1722                       Bonaventure-François de Boisfermé  (b. 1661 - d. 1722)
1723 - 1727                Robert Giraut du Poyet             (b. 1665 - d. 1740)
1727 - 1734                Charles de Brunier,                (d. 1746)
                             marquis de Larnage
1734 - 1748                Jean-Louis Fournier de Charles de 
                             Pradine
1748 - 1757                Robert Philippe de Longvilliers    (d. 1761)
                             de Poincy
1757 - 1762                Pierre-Claude Bonvoust d'Aulnay 
                             de Prulay
1762                       Robert Swanton                     (d. 1765)
1762 - Dec 1764            George Scott
Dec 1764 - 1765            Robert Melville (1st time)(acting) (b. 1723 - d. 1809)
1765 - Jul 1768            Francis Gore (acting)
26 Jul 1768 -  5 Apr 1770  Ulysses FitzMaurice                (d. 1774)
1770 - 1771                Robert Melville (2nd time)         (s.a.)
1771                       Frederick Corsar (1st time)(acting)  
Mar 1771 - 16 Apr 1775     William L. Leybourne               (d. 1775)
Apr 1775 - May 1775        Frederick Corsar (2nd time)(acting)  
Apr 1775 - 1776            William Young (acting)             (d. 1788)
 1 May 1776 -  4 Jul 1779  Sir George Macartney, Baron        (b. 1737 - d. 1806)
                             Macartney
Governor-general
1779 - 1783                Jean-François, comte de Durat      (b. 1736 - d. 1830)
Governors
Jan 1784 - 31 May 1785     Edward Matthew                     (d. 1805)
 1 Jun 1785 - 30 Sep 1787  William Lucas (acting)
1787 - 1788                Samuel Williams (1st time)
                             (acting)
1788 - 1789                James Campbell (acting)            (b. 1763 - d. 1819)
1789 – Jan 1793            Samuel Williams (2nd time)
                             (acting)
Lieutenant governors
Jan 1793 - Mar 1795        Ninian Home                        (b. 1732 - d. 1795)
 3 Mar 1795 - 10 Jun 1796  Julien Fédon (in rebellion)
Mar 1795 - Dec 1795        Kenneth Francis Mackenzie (acting) (b. 1748 - d. 1831)
Dec 1795 - Apr 1796        Samuel Mitchell (1st time)(acting)
 6 Apr 1796 -  9 Mar 1797  Alexander Houston
10 Mar 1797 - 1798         Charles Green (1st time)
1798                       Samuel Mitchell (2nd time)(acting)
1798 -  8 Jun 1801         Charles Green (2nd time)
Jun 1801 - 1802            Samuel Dent (acting)
Sep 1802 -  5 Nov 1802     George Vere Hobart                 (b. 1761 - d. 1802)
Jan 1803 - Mar 1803        Samuel Dent (acting)
Mar 1803 - 1804            Thomas Hislop                      (b. 1764 - d. 1843)
1804 - 29 Mar 1805         William Douglas MacLean Clephane   (b. 17.. - d. 1805)
1805 - Jul 1805            Abraham Charles Adye (1st time)
                             (acting)
Governors
Jul 1805 - 1807            Frederick Maitland (1st time)      (b. 1763 - d. 1848) 
Nov 1807 - Jan 1808        John Harvey (1st time)(acting)
Jan 1808 - Dec 1808        Frederick Maitland (2nd time)      (s.a.)      
Dec 1808 - May 1809        Abraham Charles Adye (2nd time)
                             (acting)
May 1809 - Jun 1809        Frederick Maitland (3rd time)      (s.a.)   
Jun 1809 - Jul 1810        Abraham Charles Adye (3rd time)
                             (acting)
Jul 1810 - Oct 1810        Frederick Maitland (4th time)      (s.a.)   
Oct 1810 - Nov 1810        Abraham Charles Adye (4th time)
                             (acting)
Nov 1810 - May 1811        Frederick Maitland (5th time)      (s.a.)
May 1811 - May 1812        Abraham Charles Adye (5th time)
                             (acting)
May 1812 - 1813            George Robert Ainslie              (b. 1776 - d. 1839)
                             (vice governor)
1813 - Aug 1813            John Havey (2nd time)(acting)
Aug 1813 - Jul 1815        Sir Charles Shipley (1st time)     (b. 1755 - d. 1815)
Jul 1815 - Sep 1815        George Paterson (1st time)(acting)
Sep 1815 - Nov 1815        Sir Charles Shipley (2nd time)     (s.a.)
Nov 1815 - Aug 1816        George Paterson (2nd time)(acting)
Aug 1816 - May 1819        Phineas Riall (1st time)           (b. 1775 - d. 1850)
May 1819 - Feb 1821        Andrew Houston (1st time)(acting)
Feb 1821 - Jun 1823        Phineas Riall (2nd time)           (s.a.)
Jun 1823 - Jan 1826        George Paterson (3rd time)(acting)
Jan 1826 - May 1829        Sir James Campbell (1st time)      (b. 1778 - d. 1835)
May 1829 - May 1830        Andrew Houston (2nd time)(acting)
May 1830 - Jun 1831        Sir James Campbell (2nd time)      (s.a.)
Jun 1831 - Jul 1831        Felix Palmer (acting)
Jul 1831 - 1833            Sir James Campbell (3rd time)      (s.a.)
Lieutenant governors
May 1833 - Jul 1835        George Middlemore                  (d. 1850)
Jul 1835 - 1836            John Hastings Mair                 (b. 1790 - d. 1836)
Mar 1836 - Aug 1836        John Berkeley (acting)
Aug 1836 - 1841            Carlo Joseph Doyle (1st time)      (b. 1787 - d. 18..)
1841                       Matthew Davies (acting)
1841 - 1846                Carlo Joseph Doyle (2nd time)      (s.a.)
Dec 1846 - 1853            Ker Baillie Hamilton               (b. 1804 - d. 1889)
1853 - 1856                Robert William Keate               (b. 1814 - d. 1873)
Nov 1856 - 1864            Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright    (b. 1817 - d. 1899)
1864 - 1871                Robert Miller Mundy                (b. 1813 - d. 1892)
1871                       Edward Daniel Laborde (1st time)
                             (acting)
1871 - 1875                Sanford Freeling                   (b. 1828 - d. 1894)
1875                       Edward Daniel Laborde (2nd time)
                             (acting)
1875 - 1877                Cyril Clerke Graham                (b. 1834 - d. 1895)
24 Sep 1877 - Sep 1881     Robert William Harley (1st time)
1878 - 1879                Thomas Kerr (acting for Harley)
Sep 1881 - Jan 1882        Irwin Charles Maling (acting)      (b. 1841 - d. 1918)
Jan 1882 - Mar 1882        Robert William Harley (2nd time)
Administrators
Mar 1882 - Nov 1882        Irwin Charles Maling (1st time)    (s.a.)
Nov 1882 - Apr 1883        Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy        (b. 1839 - d. 1900)
Apr 1883 - Sep 1886        Edward Daniel Laborde (1st time)   (b. 1863 - d. 19..)
Sep 1886 - May 1887        Irwin Charles Maling (2nd time)    (s.a.)
May 1887 - May 1888        Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles       (b. 1850 - d. 1913)
                             (1st time)
Jun 1888 - Dec 1888        John Elliott
Dec 1888 - Jan 1889        R.B. Llewelyn (1st time)
Jan 1889 - Nov 1889        Edward Daniel Laborde (2nd time)   (s.a.)
Nov 1889 - Sep 1890        R.B. Llewelyn (2nd time)
Sep 1890 - Nov 1890        Lawrence R. Fyfe
Nov 1890 - 1891            Edward Rawle Drayton (1st time)    (b. 1859 - d. 1927)
1891 - Aug 1892            Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles       (s.a.)
                             (2nd time)
Aug 1892 - 1915            Edward Rawle Drayton (2nd time)    (s.a.)
Sep 1915 - Oct 1915        Edward Daniel Laborde (3rd time)   (s.a.)
                             (acting)
1915 - 1930                Herbert Ferguson                   (b. 1874 - d. 1953)
1930 - 1935                Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood        (b. 1893 - d. 1967)
1935 - 1940                William Leslie Heape               (b. 1896 - d. 1972)
1940 - 1942                Charles Henry Vincent Talbot       (b. 1902)
1942 - 1951                George Conrad Green                (b. 1897 - d. 1976)
1951 - 1957                Wallace Macmillan                  (b. 1913 - d. 1992)
1957 - 1962                James Monteith Lloyd               (b. 1911 - d. 1995)
1962 - 1964                Lionel Achille Pinard              (b. 1912)
1964 - 1967                Ian Graham Turbott                 (b. 1922)
Governors
1967 - 1968                Ian Graham Turbott                 (s.a.)
Jun 1968 - 21 Jan 1974     Hilda Louise Bynoe (f)             (b. 1921)
                             (from 1969, Dame Hilda Louise Bynoe)
24 Jan 1974 -  7 Feb 1974  Leo Victor de Gale (acting)        (b. 1921 - d. 1986)
Queen¹
 7 Feb 1974 -              the Queen of the United Kingdom
Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)
 7 Feb 1974 -  4 Oct 1978  Leo Victor de Gale                 (s.a.)
                             (from 12 Feb 1974, Sir Leo Victor de Gale)            
 4 Oct 1978 - 31 Jul 1992  Paul N. Scoon                      (b. 1935)
                             (from 8 Mar 1979, Sir Paul N. Scoon) 
                             (prevented from exercising functions 20-25 Oct 1983)
31 Jul 1992 -  8 Aug 1996  Reginald Oswald Palmer             (b. 1923)
                             (from 6 Sep 1992, Sir Reginald Oswald Palmer)
                             (acting to 6 Aug 1992)
 8 Aug 1996 - 18 Nov 2008  Daniel Charles Williams            (b. 1935)
                             (from 9 Aug 1996, Sir Daniel Charles Williams)
18 Nov 2008 - 27 Nov 2008  Vacant
27 Nov 2008 -              Carlyle Arnold Glean               (b. 1932)
                             (from 10 Feb 2009, Sir Carlyle Arnold Glean)

Chief ministers
1954 - 1956                Eric Matthew Gairy (1st time)      (b. 1922 - d. 1997)  GULP
1958 - Jan 1960            Eric Matthew Gairy (2nd time)      (s.a.)               GULP
Jan 1960 - Mar 1961        Herbert Augustus Blaize (1st time) (b. 1918 - d. 1989)  GNP
Mar 1961 - Aug 1961        George Elliott Dunbar Clyne        (d. 1984)            GULP
Aug 1961 - 19 Jun 1962     Eric Matthew Gairy (3rd time)      (s.a.)               GULP
Sep 1962 - Aug 1967        Herbert Augustus Blaize (2nd time) (s.a.)               GNP
Prime ministers
Aug 1967 - 13 Mar 1979     Eric Matthew Gairy                 (s.a.)               GULP
                             (from 2 Aug 1977, Sir Eric Matthew Gairy)
13 Mar 1979 - 19 Oct 1983  Maurice Rupert Bishop²             (b. 1944 - d. 1983)  NJ
                             (de facto deposed 14 Oct 1983)
26 Sep 1983 -  8 Oct 1983  Bernard Coard (acting for Bishop)  (b. 1944)            NJ
19 Oct 1983 - 25 Oct 1983  Hudson Austin                      (b. 1938)            Mil
                             (head of Revolutionary Military Council)
 9 Dec 1983 -  4 Dec 1984  Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite      (b. 1925)            NDC
                             (chairman interim advisory council
                             [acting to 9 Dec 1983])
                             (1st time)
 4 Dec 1984 - 19 Dec 1989  Herbert Augustus Blaize            (s.a.)               NNP
20 Dec 1989 - 16 Mar 1990  Ben Joseph Jones                   (b. 1924 - d. 2005)  NNP
16 Mar 1990 -  1 Feb 1995  Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite      (s.a.)               NDC
                             (2nd time)
 1 Feb 1995 - 22 Jun 1995  George Ignatius Brizan             (b. 1942)            NDC
22 Jun 1995 -  9 Jul 2008  Keith Claudius Mitchell            (b. 1946)            NNP
 9 Jul 2008 -              Tillman Joseph Thomas              (b. 1945)            NDC

Commander of U.S. and East Caribbean Forces
25 Oct 1983 -  9 Dec 1983  Joseph "Joe" Metcalf III (U.S.)    (b. 1927 - d. 2007)

 ¹The style:
(a) 7 Feb 1974 - 1974: "By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of The Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith";
(b) from 1974: "By the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Grenada and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth."

 ²an attempt to overthrow Bishop was launched by Bernard Coard (s.a.) on 14 Oct 1983, Bishop's supporters resisted, during this chaotic period no one was clearly in charge. Coard was toppled by the army under Hudson Austin (s.a.) before 19 Oct 1983.

Party abbreviations: NDC = National Democratic Congress (liberal); NNP = New National Party (conservative); Mil = Military;
- Former parties: GNP = Grenada National Party (conservative); GULP = Grenada United Labor Party (authoritarian); NJ = New Jewel Movement (New Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation "New Jewel", Marxist-Lenninsit, 1979-1983)