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: 89,971 (2007) GDP: $440 million (2002) Exports: $40 million (2004) Imports: $276 million (2004) 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 Paramiliary Forces: 755 (2003) Merchant marine: None (2006) 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, APM, BTWC, C, Caricom, CDB, CTBT, CWC, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ITU, ITUC, KP, LAES, MIGA, NAM, NPT, OAS, OECS, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCC, UNIDO, UPU, 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. 1762                       British occupation. 10 Feb 1763                British colony, recognized by France in Treaty                               of Paris. 1763 - 1802                Part of (British) South Caribbean Islands colony                              (Dominica, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada,                              and Tobago).  4 Jul 1779 - 1783         French occupation. 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). 27 Feb 1967                Associated state  7 Feb 1974                Independence from U.K. (Grenada). 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 South Caribbean Islands (1762-1802) Windward Islands (1871-1960)

South Caribbean Islands

Governors-in-chief (also governors of Grenada)
1762 - 1764                George Scott
1764                       Robert Melville (acting)           (b. 1723 - d. 1809)
1764 - 1770                Ulysses FitzMaurice (1st time)
1770 - 1771                Robert Melville (2nd time)         (s.a.)
1771                       Ulysses FitzMaurice (2nd time)
1771 - 1775                William Leybourne                  (d. 1775)
1775 - 1776                .... (acting) 
1776                       William Young                      (d. 1788)
1776 - 1779                George Macartney, Baron Macartney  (b. 1737 - d. 1806)
1779 - 1784                Vacant
1784 - 1785                Edward Mathew
1785 - 1787                William Lucas (acting)
1787 - 1788                Samuel Williams (acting)
1788 - 1789                James Campell (acting)             (b. 1763 - d. 1819)
1789 – 17 Nov 1792         Samuel Williams (acting)
17 Nov 1792 - 1795         Ninian Home                        (d. 1795)
1795                       Kenneth Francis Mackenzie
1795 - 1796                Samuel Mitchell (acting)
1796 - 30 Sep 1797         Alexander Houston
30 Sep 1797 - 1801         Charles Green
1801 - 1802                Samuel Dent (acting)

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 McGregor          (b. 1785 - d. 1841)
                             (from 1839, Sir Evan John Murray McGregor)
1841                       Charles Henry Darling
1841 - 1846                Sir Charles Edward Grey            (b. 1785 - d. 1865)
1846 - 1848                William Reid                       (b. 1791 - d. 1858)
1848 - 1856                William Macbean George Colebrooke  (b. 1787 - d. 1870)
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 - 1876                Sir John Pope Hennessy             (b. 1834 - d. 1891)
1876                       Sanford Freeling (acting)          (b. 1828 - d. 1894)
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 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 1957, Sir Colville Montgomery Deverell) 

Governors
1649 - 1654                Jean Le Comte
1654 - 1658                Louis Cacqueray de Valminière
1658                       Dubuc
1658 - 1664                Jean Faudoas de Cérillac
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 Gémosat           (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                       chevalier de Lespinay
1717 -  3 Jan 1721         Jean-Michel L'Espinay de la
                             Longueville                      (d. 1721)
1721 - 1722                Jean Balthazard du Houx            (d. 1722)
1722                       Bonaventure-François de Boisfermé  (b. 1661 - d. 1722)
1723 - 1727                Robert Giraud 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 - 1764                George Scott
1764                       Robert Melville (1st time)         (b. 1723 - d. 1809)
                             (acting)
1764 - 1770                Ulysses FitzMaurice (1st time)
1770 - 1771                Robert Melville (2nd time)         (s.a.)
1771                       Ulysses FitzMaurice (2nd time)
1771 - 1775                William Leybourne                  (d. 1775)
1775 - 1776                William Young                      (d. 1788)
1776 -  4 Jul 1779         George Macartney, Baron Macartney  (b. 1737 - d. 1806)
1779 - 1783                count de Durat (French governor)
1783 - 1785                Edward Mathew                      (d. 1805)
1785 - 1787                William Lucas (acting)
1787 - 1788                Samuel Williams (1st time)
                             (acting)
1788 - 1789                James Campbell (acting)            (b. 1763 - d. 1819)
1789 – 1792                Samuel Williams (2nd time)
                             (acting)
17 Nov 1792 -  8 Apr 1795  Ninian Home                        (b. 1732 - d. 1795)
 3 Mar 1795 - 10 Jun 1796  Julien Fédon (de facto authority
                             in much of the island)
1795                       Kenneth Francis Mackenzie (acting) (b. 1748 - d. 1831)
1795 - 1796                Samuel Mitchell (acting)
 6 Apr 1796 - 1797         Alexander Houstoun
30 Sep 1797 - 1801         Charles Green
1801 - 1802                Samuel Dent (acting)
Lieutenant governors
1802 -  5 Nov 1802         George Vere Hobart                 (b. 1761 - d. 1802)
1803 - 1804                Thomas Hislop                      (b. 1764 - d. 1843)
1804 - 1805                William Douglas MacLean Clephane   (b. 17.. - d. 1805)
29 Mar 1805 - 1811         Frederick Maitland                 (b. 1763 - d. 1848) 
1811 - 1812                Abraham Charles Adye
1812 - 1813                George Robert Ainslie              (b. 1776 - d. 1839)
1813 - 1815                Charles Shipley (acting)           (b. 1755 - d. 1815)
1815 - 1816                George Paterson (1st time)(acting)
18 Feb 1816 - 1823         Phineas Riall                      (b. 1775 - d. 1850)
1823 - 1826                George Paterson (2nd time)(acting)
1826 - 1833                James Campbell
1833 - 1835                George Middlemore                  (d. 1850)
1835 - 1836                John Hastings Mair
1836 - 1846                Carlo Joseph Doyle
1846 - 1853                Ker Baillie Hamilton               (b. 1804 - d. 1889)
1853 - 1857                Robert William Keate               (b. 1814 - d. 1873)
1857 - 1864                Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright    (b. 1817 - d. 1899)
1864 - 1871                Robert Miller Mundy                (b. 1813 - d. 1892)
1871 - 1875                Sanford Freeling                   (b. 1828 - d. 1894)
1875 - 1877                Cyril Clerke Graham
24 Sep 1877 - 1882         Robert William Harley
Administrators
1882                       Irwin Charles Maling (1st time)    (b. 1841 - d. 1918)
1882 - 1883                Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy        (b. 1839 - d. 1900)
1883 - 1886                Edward Daniel Laborde (1st time)   (b. 1863 - d. 19..)
1886 - 1887                Irwin Charles Maling (2nd time)    (s.a.)
1887 - 1888                Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles       (b. 1850 - d. 1913)
1889                       Edward Daniel Laborde (2nd time)   (s.a.)
1889 - 1892                John Elliott
1892 - 1915                Edward Rawle Drayton               (b. 1859 - d. 1927)
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
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.)
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 - 30 Sep 1978  Leo Victor de Gale                 (s.a.)
30 Sep 1978 -  6 Aug 1992  Paul N. Scoon                      (b. 1935)
                             (from 8 Mar 1979, Sir Paul N. Scoon) 
                             (prevented from exercising functions 20-25 Oct 1983)
 6 Aug 1992 -  8 Aug 1996  Reginald Oswald Palmer             (b. 1923)
                             (from 6 Sep 1992, Sir Reginald Oswald Palmer)
 8 Aug 1996 -              Daniel Charles Williams            (b. 1935)
                             (from 9 Aug 1996, Sir Daniel Charles Williams)

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 E.D. Clyne                                       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 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. 1939)            Mil
                             (head of Revolutionary Military Council)
 9 Dec 1983 -  4 Dec 1984  Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite      (b. 1925)            NDC
                             (chairman interim advisory council)
                             (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 -              Keith Claudius Mitchell            (b. 1946)            NNP

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 of the ruler: "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)