Grenada
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3 Mar 1967 - 7 Feb 1974
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Adopted 7 Feb 1974
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Map
of Grenada
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Hear
National Anthem "Hail, Grenada"
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Text
of National Anthem Adopted 1974
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Constitution (19 Dec 1973 )
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Capital: Saint George's
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Currency: East Caribbean
Dollar
(XCD)
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National Holiday: 7 Feb (1974) Independence Day
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Population: 89,971 (2007)
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GDP: $440 million (2002)
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Exports: $40 million (2004) Imports: $276 million (2004)
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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)
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Total Paramiliary Forces: 755 (2003) Merchant marine: None (2006)
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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)
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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
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Grenada Index
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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
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Grenada
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South Caribbean Islands (1762-1802)
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Windward Islands (1871-1960)
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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)
Windward Islands
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1886 - 1903
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1903 - 3 Jan 1958
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3 Jan 1958 - 1 Jan 1960
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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)
Grenada
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)
©2000 Ben Cahoon
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