Grenada
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- to 1875
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- 1875 - 1903
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- 1903 - 3 Mar 1967
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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"
Adopted 7 Feb 1974
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Former
National Anthem
"The Grenada National
State Anthem" (1967-1974)
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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:
112,207 (2018)
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GDP: $1.63
billion (2017)
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Exports:
$39.9 million (2017)
Imports: $316
million (2017)
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Ethnic groups:
African descent 82.4%, mixed 13.3%,
East
Indian 2.2%, other 1.3%, unspecified
0.9% (2011)
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Total Active
Paramilitary Forces: 900 (2012)
Merchant marine:
6 ships (2018)
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Religions:
Protestant 49.2% (includes Pentecostal
17.2%,
Seventh Day Adventist 13.2%, Anglican
8.5%, Baptist 3.2%,
Church of God 2.4%, Evangelical 1.9%,
Methodist 1.6%,
other 1.2%), Roman Catholic 36%,
Jehovah's Witness 1.2%,
Rastafarian 1.2%, other 5.5%, none
5.7%, unspecified 1.3% (2011)
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International
Organizations/Treaties: ACP,
ACS, ALBA, AOSIS, APM, BTWC, C, Caricom,
CCM, CDB, CELAC, CTBT, CWC, ECCB, ECCU,
ESCR, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt
(signatory), ICRM,
ICSID, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO,
IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IRENA (signatory), ISA, ISO (subscriber), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, NPT,
OAS, OECS, OPANAL, OPCW, Petrocaribe,
UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNFCC, UNFCC-KP, UNFCC-PA, UNIDO,
UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO (observer), WTO
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Grenada
Index
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Chronology
15 Aug
1498
Sighted and claimed for Spain by
Christopher
Columbus, named Isla de
Concepción.
1523
Named on maps as Isla Granada.
1609 -
1609
Brief English settlement.
2
Jul 1627
Grenada
(Granada) granted to James, Earl of
Carlisle
by King Charles I of
England (as part of Carlisle
Province, also called
Carliola); no 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.
4 Mar
1762
British occupation.
10 Feb
1763
British colony, recognized by France
in Treaty
of Paris.
1764 -
1802
Part of Southern Caribbee (Caribbean)
Islands.
6 Jul 1779 - 6
Jan 1784 French occupation.
2 Mar 1795 - 10
Jun 1796 French rebellion led by
Julien Fédon.
1 Apr 1833 - 1 Jan
1960 Part of the Windward
Islands.
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.
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Grenada
(from 1649)
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Southern
Caribbean
Islands
(1762-1802)
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Windward
Islands
(1871-1960)
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Windward Islands
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- 1886 - 1903
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- 1903 - 3 Jan 1958
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Map
of British Windward
Islands
1880-1958
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Capital:
Saint George's
(Grenada)
(Bridgetown, Barbados 1833-1885;
Saint
George's,
Grenada 1764-1779
and 1784-1802;
Scarborough, Tobago 1779-1784)
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Population:
250,418
(1946)
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Currency: Pound
Sterling (BGP) |
Exports: $8.3 million (1953)
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Imports: $12.5 million (1953) |
1764 -
1802
Southern Caribbee (Caribbean) Islands (Dominica [to
1771],
Grenada [to 4 Jul 1779, from 5 Jan
1784], St. Vincent [to 1776],
and Tobago).
1 Apr 1833
Windward Islands colony
(Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia [from
1838],
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tobago).
1 Jun 1885
Federal Colony of the Windward Islands (Dominica
[from 1 Jan 1940],
Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines, and Tobago
[to 1 Jan 1889]).
1 Jul
1956
Territory of the Windward Islands
1 Jan
1960
Dissolved.
Governors-in-chief in and over the Southern
Caribbee Islands
13 Dec 1764 - 4 Jul 1779 the
governors of Grenada
5 Jul 1779 - 23 Feb 1780 John Graham
(acting, in Tobago)
23 Feb 1780 - 6 Jan 1784 George Ferguson
(acting, in Tobago)(b. 1748 - d. 1820)
6 Jan 1784 - 1802
the governors of Grenada
1802
Post abolished
Governors-in-chief of the Windward Islands
1 Apr 1833 - 1 Jun 1885 the
governors of Barbados
1 Jun 1885 - 24 Nov 1889 Sir Walter
Joseph
Sendall
(b. 1833 - d. 1904)
28 Nov 1889 - 30 Jun 1893 Sir
Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson (b. 1849 - d. 1913)
30 Jun 1893 - 24 Oct 1893 Edward
Rawle Drayton (acting) (b. 1859 - d.
1927)
24 Oct 1893 -
1897 Sir
Charles
Bruce
(b. 1836 - d. 1920)
1 Jun 1897 -
1900 Sir
Cornelius Alfred
Moloney (b. 1848 -
d. 1913)
12 Dec 1900 - 15 Oct 1906 Sir
Robert Baxter Llewelyn
(b. 1845 - d. 1919)
15 Oct 1906 - 16 Jan 1907 Philip
Clark Cork (acting)
(b. 1854 - d.
1936)
16 Jan 1907 -
1909
Ralph Champneys Williams
(b. 1848 - d. 1927)
(from 9 Nov 1907, Sir Ralph Champneys Williams)
Jun 1909 - 13 Oct 1909 Edward
John Cameron (acting) (b. 1858 - d.
1947)
13 Oct 1909 - 23 May 1914 Sir
James Hayes
Sadler
(b. 1851 - d. 1922)
23 May 1914 - 30 Dec 1914 William
Douglas Young (acting) (b. 1859 - d.
1943)
30 Dec 1914 - 1 Nov 1923 George
Basil Haddon-Smith
(b. 1861 - d. 1931)
(from 1 Jan 1915, Sir George Basil
Haddon-Smith)
1 Nov 1923 - 25 Jul 1924 Wilfred
Bennett Davidson-Houston (b. 1870 - d.
1960)
(acting)
26 Jul 1924 - 1930
Sir Frederick Seton
James
(b. 1870 - d. 1934)
May 1930 - Jun 1930
Herbert Walter Peebles
(acting) (b. 1877 - d. 1955)
20 May 1930 - 3 Aug 1930 Hilary Rudolph
Robert Blood
(b. 1893 - d. 1967)
(acting)
3 Aug 1930 - 25 Sep 1930 Charles
William Doorly (acting) (b. 1875 - d. 1942)
25 Sep 1930 - 1933
Sir Thomas
Alexander Vans Best (b. 1870 -
d. 1941)
1933 - 20 Feb
1935
Charles William Doorly (acting) (b.
1875 - d. 1942)
(from 1 Jan 1935, Sir Charles William Doorly)
20 Feb 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 9 Jun 1938, Sir Henry Bradshaw Popham)
18 May 1942 - 2 Jan 1948
Sir Arthur Francis
Grimble
(b. 1888 - d. 1956)
2 Jan 1948 - 30 Jun 1948 Ronald
Herbert Garvey (acting) (b. 1903 - d.
1991)
30 Jun 1948 - 19 Jan 1953 Robert Duncan Harris
Arundell (b. 1904 - d. 1989)
(from 8 Jun 1950, Sir Robert Duncan Harris
Arundell)
19 Jan 1953 - 12 May 1953 Walter
Fleming Coutts (acting) (b. 1912 - d.
1988)
12 May 1953 - 18 Mar 1955 Edward "Eddy" Betham
Beetham (b. 1905 -
d. 1979)
(from 1 Jan 1955, Sir Edward Betham
Beetham)
18 Mar 1955 - 14 Jul 1955 Wallace
Macmillan (acting)
(b. 1913 - d. 1992)
14 Jul 1955 - 1 Jan 1960 Colville
Montgomery Deverell
(b. 1907 - d. 1995)
(from 1 Jan 1957, Sir Colville Montgomery
Deverell)
Grenada
Governors
1649 - Jul/Aug
1654 Jean Le
Comte
(d. 1654)
23 Sep 1654 -
1658
Louis de Caqueray de Valmenières
(b. 1628 - d. 1682)
1658
Jean III de Faudoas, comte
(b. 1600 - d. 1679)
de Sérillac (1st time)
8 Jul 1658 - 1660 Jean
VI François du Buc
du (b.
1600 - d. 1666)
Pacquerel, baron de Bretagnolles
1660 -
1664
Jean III de Faudoas,
comte
(s.a.)
de Sérillac (2nd time)
1664 -
1670
sieur de Vincent
1671 -
1674
Louis de Canchy, sieur de Lerolle
1675 -
1679
Pierre de Sainte-Marthe, marquis (b. c.1618
- d. 1692)
de la Lande
1679 -
1680
Jacques de
Chambly
(d. 1687)
1680 -
1689
Gabriel Jean Nicolas de Gabaret, (b.
1641 - d. 1712)
seigneur de Saint-Sornin
1690 -
1695
Louis Ancelin de Gémozac (Gémosat) (b. 1670 - d. 1695)
1695 - 1696
Jean-Léon Fournier de
Carles (b. 1673 - d.
1748)
de Pradines (1st time)(acting)
1696 - Apr 1698
de Bellair de Saint-Aignan
Apr 1698 - 19 Dec 1700
de la Hogue
(b. 16.. - d.
1700)
1701
Pierre Guyon de la Roche-Guyon,
(d. 1729)
chevalier de Saint-Louis (acting)
1701 -
1708
Joseph de Bouloc, seigneur de La (b. 16.. -
d. 1708)
Mothe
1709 -
1710
Laurent de
Valernod
(b. 1669 - d. 1711)
1711 - Jan 1716
Guillaume Emmanuel Théodore de
(b. 1664 - d. 1725)
Maupéou, comte de l'Estrange,
chevalier de Maupéou-Ribaudon
1716 -
1717
François de Pas de Feuquières de (b.
c.1662 - d. 1731)
Pas de Mazancourt,
marquis de
Feuquières
1717 - 3 Jan
1721
Jean-Michel L'Espinay de la
(b. c.1667 - d. 1721)
Longueville
1721
Jean-Léon Fournier de Carles (s.a.)
de Pradines (2nd time) (acting)
1721 - 29 Aug
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, marquis de (b.
1687 - d. 1746)
Larnage
1734 -
1748
Jean-Léon Fournier de Carles
(s.a.)
de
Pradines (3rd time)
1748 -
1757
Robert Philippe de Longvilliers (b.
1671? - d. 1761)
de Poincy
1757 - 4 Mar
1762 Pierre-Claude
Antoine François de (d. 1785)
Prulay de Bonvoust d'Aulnay
Governors-in-chief
and Commanders-in-chief
4 Mar 1762 - Apr
1762 Robert Swanton -British
commander (b. 1713 - d. 1765)
Apr 1762 - 1763
George Scott (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1722 - d. 1767)
1763 - Feb
1764
Campbell Dalrymple (acting)
(b. 1725 - d. 1767)
(military governor)
Feb 1764 - 13 Dec 1764 George Scott
(2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
13 Dec 1764 - Aug 1768 Robert
Melville (1st time) (b. 1723
- d. 1809)
Aug 1768 - 5 Apr 1770 Ulysses
FitzMaurice (1st time) (b. 1744
- d. 1772)
(acting)
5 Apr 1770 - 13 Jul 1771
Robert Melville (2nd
time) (s.a.)
13 Jul 1771 - 1 Nov
1771 Ulysses FitzMaurice (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting)
1 Nov 1771 - 16 Apr 1775 William Leybourne
Leybourne (b. 1744 - d.
1775)
16 Apr 1775 - 3 May
1776 Sir William Young (acting)
(b. 1725 - d. 1788)
3 May 1776 - 6 Jul 1779 Sir
George Macartney, Baron (b.
1737 - d. 1806)
Macartney
Governor-general
Jul 1779 - Jan 1784
Jean-François, comte de Durat
(b. 1736 - d. 1830)
Captains-general and
Governors-in-chief
6 Jan 1784 - 31 May 1785 Edward
Matthew (1st time)
(b.
1729 - d. 1805)
1 Jun 1785 - 9
Oct 1787 William Lucas (acting)
(d.
1787)
9 Oct 1787 -
1788 Samuel
Williams (1st time) (b. 17..
- d. 1808/09)
(acting)
1 Jan 1788 -
1789 James
Campbell (acting)
(b. 1763 - d. 1819)
1789 - 24 Jun 1792
Edward Matthew (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Jul 1792 – 28 Jan 1793 Samuel
Williams (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
Lieutenant governors
28 Jan 1793 - 8 May
1795 Ninian
Home
(b. 1732 - d. 1795)
(Fédon prisoner from 2 Mar 1795)
2 Mar 1795 - 10 Jun 1796 Julien Fédon (in
rebellion) (d.
1796?)
(commander-in-chief)
2 Mar 1795 - 12 Dec 1795 Kenneth Francis
Mackenzie (acting) (b. 1748 - d. 1831)
12 Dec 1795
- 5 Apr 1796 Samuel
Mitchell (1st time)(acting) (b. 1750 - d. 1805)
5 Apr 1796 - 9 Mar 1797
Alexander Houston
(b. c.1770
- d. 1822)
1796 - 22 Sep
1796 Lord James
Cranston
(b. 1755 - d. 1796)
(died before taking office)
9 Mar 1797 - 1798
Charles Green (1st
time) (b.
1749 - d. 1831)
1798
Samuel Mitchell (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
10 Mar 1797 -
8 Jun 1801 Charles Green (2nd time)
(s.a.)
8 Jun 1801 - 28 Sep 1802 Samuel
Dent (1st time) (acting) (b.
17.. - d. 1804)
28 Sep 1802
- 5 Nov 1802 George Vere
Hobart
(b. 1761 - d. 1802)
5 Nov 1802 - 6 May
1804 Samuel Dent (2nd
time) (acting) (s.a.)
Mar 1803 - 1804
Thomas Hislop (did not arrive) (b.
1764 - d. 1843)
1804
- 6 May 1804
William Douglas MacLean Clephane (b. 1759 -
d. 1803)
(did not take office)
Governors
6 May 1804 - 17 May 1805 Abraham
Charles Adye (1st time) (b. 1748 - d.
1815)
(acting)
17 May 1805 - Nov 1807 Frederick
Maitland (1st time) (b. 1763 -
d. 1848)
Nov 1807 - 1 Jan 1808
John Harvey (1st time)(acting)
(b. 1753 - d. 1820)
1 Jan 1808 - Dec 1808
Frederick Maitland (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Dec 1808 - May 1809
Abraham Charles Adye
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
May 1809 - Jun 1809
Frederick Maitland (3rd
time) (s.a.)
Jun 1809 - 25 Jul 1810
Abraham Charles Adye (3rd
time) (s.a.)
(acting)
26 Jul 1810 - Oct 1810
Frederick Maitland (4th time)
(s.a.)
Oct 1810 - Nov 1810
Abraham Charles Adye
(4th time) (s.a.)
(acting)
Nov 1810 - 6 May 1811
Frederick Maitland (5th time)
(s.a.)
6 May 1811 - 5 May 1812 Abraham
Charles Adye (5th time) (s.a.)
(acting)
5 May 1812 -
1813
George Robert
Ainslie
(b. 1776 - d. 1839)
(vice governor)
21 Apr 1813 - 13 Aug 1813 John
Harvey (2nd time)(acting)
(s.a.)
13 Aug 1813 - Jul
1815 Sir Charles Shipley (1st
time) (b. 1755 - d. 1815)
7 Jul 1815 - Sep 1815
George Paterson (1st time)(acting) (b.
1761 - d. 1852)
Sep 1815 - 30 Nov 1815
Sir Charles Shipley (2nd time)
(s.a.)
30 Nov 1815 - 2 Aug 1816
George Paterson (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
2 Aug 1816 - 20 May 1819 Phineas
Riall (1st time)
(b. 1775 - d. 1850)
20 May 1819 - 8 Feb
1821 Andrew Houston (1st time)(acting) (b. 1752
- d. 1822)
8 Feb 1821 - Jul 1823
Phineas Riall (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Jul 1823 - 5 Jan
1826 George Paterson (3rd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
5 Jan 1826 - May 1829
Sir James Campbell (1st time)
(b. 1778 - d. 1835)
25 May 1829 - May 1830
Andrew Houston (2nd time)(acting)
(s.a.)
May 1830 - Jun 1831
Sir James
Campbell (2nd time) (s.a.)
Jun 1831 - Jul 1831
Felix Palmer (acting)
(b. 1792
- d. 1838?)
Jul 1831 - Apr 1833
Sir James
Campbell (3rd time) (s.a.)
Lieutenant governors
9 May 1833 - 4 Jul 1835
George
Middlemore
(b. c.1756 - d. 1850)
5 Jul 1835 - 21 Mar 1836
John Hastings Mair
(b. 1790 - d. 1836)
22 Mar 1836 - 31 Aug
1836 John Berkeley (acting)
(b. 1784 - d. 1839)
31 Aug 1836 - 1841
Carlo Joseph Doyle (1st time)
(b. 1787 - d. 1848)
1841
Matthew Davies (acting)
1841 - 1846
Carlo Joseph Doyle (2nd time)
(s.a.)
5 Jul 1846 - 10 Dec 1846 Francis
Yelverton Checkley
(1st
time) (acting)
10 Dec 1846 -
1853 Ker
Baillie
Hamilton
(b. 1804 - d. 1889)
22 Oct 1853 - May 1856
Robert William
Keate
(b. 1814 - d. 1873)
1855 - 1856
Francis Yelverton Checkley
(2nd time) (acting)
22 May 1856 - Oct 1856
James Walker (acting)
(b. 1809 - d. 1885)
Oct 1856 - Jan
1857 Francis
Yelverton Checkley
(3rd time) (acting)
31 Jan 1857 - May 1858 Cornelius
Hendricksen Kortright (b. 1817 - d.
1899)
(1st time)
May 1858 - Jun 1858
Francis Yelverton Checkley
(4th time) (acting)
Jun 1858 - Feb
1859 Charles
Ready (acting)
Feb 1859 - May
1859 Francis
Yelverton Checkley
(5th time) (acting)
May 1859 - 1860
Cornelius Hendricksen
Kortright (s.a.)
(2nd
time)
Dec 1860
William Stephenson (acting)
1860 - 1861
Cornelius Hendricksen
Kortright (s.a.)
(3rd time)
1861
Alexander Bain (1st
time)(acting) (b. 1797 - d. 1863)
1861 - 1863
Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (s.a.)
(4th time)
1863
Alexander Bain (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
1863 - Jan
1864
Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (s.a.)
(5th time)
Jan 1864 - Apr 1865
Robert Miller Mundy (1st time) (b. 1813 -
d. 1892)
Apr 1865
Andrew Munro (1st
time)(acting)
Apr 1865 - Dec
1865 Edwin D.
Baynes (1st time)(acting)
Dec 1865 - May 1866
Robert Miller Mundy (2nd time)
(s.a.)
May 1866 - Jun
1868 Edwin D.
Baynes (2nd time)(acting)
Jun 1868 - Mar 1871
Andrew Munro (2nd time)(acting)
Mar 1871 - May 1871
Edward Daniel Laborde (acting) (b. 1826 -
d. 1898)
May 1871 - Jun 1871
William McEwen (1st time)(acting)
3 Jun 1871 - 9 Jun 1875 Sanford
Freeling
(b. 1828 - d. 1894)
9 Jun 1875 - 3 Jul 1875
William McEwen (2nd time)(acting)
3 Jul 1875 - Apr 1876
Cyril Clerke Graham (1st time) (b.
1834 - d. 1895)
(acting to Mar 1876)
Apr 1876 - May 1876 Augustus
Frederick Gore (acting) (b. 1826 - d. 1887)
May 1876 - May 1877
Cyril Clerke Graham (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
May
1877
William McEwen (3rd time)(acting)
May 1877 - Aug 1878
Robert William Harley (1st time) (b. 1829 - d.
1892)
Aug 1878
Samuel
Mitchell (acting)
8 Aug 1878 - 2 Apr 1879 Thomas Kerr
(b. 1818 - d. 1907)
2 Apr 1879 - 28 Sep
1881 Robert William Harley (2nd time)
(s.a.)
28 Sep 1881 - Jan 1882 Irwin
Charles Maling (acting) (b. 1841 -
d. 1918)
Jan 1882 - 28 Mar 1882
Robert William Harley (3rd time) (s.a.)
Administrators
28 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) (s.a.)
4 Sep 1886 - 1 May 1887
Irwin Charles Maling (2nd time) (s.a.)
1 May 1887 - May 1888 Henry
Rawlins Pipon
Schooles (b. 1850 -
d. 1913)
(1st time)
May
1888
Edward Daniel Laborde (2nd time) (s.a.)
May 1888 - Jun
1888 Henry
Rawlins Pipon
Schooles (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1 Jun 1888 - Dec 1888
John Elliott (acting)
23 Dec 1888 - 27 Dec
1888 F.M. Chadwick (acting)
27 Dec 1888 - 11 Jan 1889 Robert Baxter Llewelyn
(1st time) (b. 1845 - d. 1919)
(acting)
11 Jan 1889 - Nov 1889
Edward Daniel Laborde (3rd time)
(s.a.)
(acting)
Nov 1889 - Sep 1890
Robert Baxter Llewelyn (2nd
time) (s.a.)
Sep 1890 - Nov 1890
Lawrence Riky Fyfe
(b. 1845 - d. 1892)
Nov 1890 - 1891
Edward Rawle Drayton (1st time) (b. 1859 -
d. 1927)
1891 - Jun 1892
Henry Rawlins Pipon
Schooles (s.a.)
(3rd time)
Jun 1892 - Sep 1892
Edward Rawle Drayton
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Sep 1892
Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury
(b. 1839 - d. 1896)
(1st
time)
Sep 1892
Edward Pakenham Brooks
(b. 1849 - d. 1896)
Sep 1892 - Nov 1892 Clement
Courtenay Knollys (b.
1849 – d. 1905)
Nov 1892 - Feb
1893 John
Hartley
Sandwith
(b. 1846 - d. 1895)
Feb 1893 - Jul 1893 Edward
Rawle Drayton (3rd time) (s.a.)
Jul 1893
Valesius Skipton
Gouldsbury
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Jul 1893 - Apr 1894
Edward Rawle Drayton (4th time) (s.a.)
Apr 1894 - Nov
1894 Henry
Rawlins Pipon
Schooles (s.a.)
(4th time)
Nov 1894 - Jun 1895 Edward
Rawle Drayton (5th time) (s.a.)
Jun 1895 - Oct
1895 Valesius
Skipton
Gouldsbury
(s.a.)
(3rd time)
Oct 1895 - Feb
1897 Edward
Rawle Drayton (6th time) (s.a.)
Feb 1897 - May
1897 Harry
Langhorne Thompson (1st time)(b. 1857 - d. 1902)
May 1897 - 1898
Leslie Probyn (1st
time)
(b. 1862 - d. 1938)
1898 - Jun 1899
Edward Rawle Drayton (7th
time) (s.a.)
Jun 1899 - Nov 1899 Harry
Langhorne Thompson (2nd time)(s.a.)
1899 - 1900
Edward Rawle Drayton (8th time)
(s.a.)
Mar 1900 - 1900
Leslie Probyn (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
1900
Edward Rawle Drayton
(9th time) (s.a.)
May 1900
C. Falconer Anton (1st time)
1900 - 1901
Edward Rawle Drayton (10th
time) (s.a.)
Jan 1901 (10 days)
Leslie Probyn (3rd
time)
(s.a.)
1901 - Jun 1901
Edward Rawle Drayton (11th time) (s.a.)
Jun 1901 (12 days)
C. Falconer Anton (2nd time)
1901 - 1908
Edward Rawle Drayton (12th
time) (s.a.)
1908 (42 days)
Daniel Thomas Tudor (1st time)
(b. 1866 - d. 1928)
1908 - 1910
Edward Rawle Drayton (13th
time) (s.a.)
1910 (57 days)
Daniel Thomas Tudor (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1910 - 1915
Edward Rawle Drayton (14th
time) (s.a.)
Sep 1915 - Oct 1915 Edward
Daniel Laborde (acting) (b. 1863 - d.
19..)
Oct 1915 -
1930
Herbert
Ferguson
(b. 1874 - d. 1953)
Apr 1930 -
1935
Hilary Rudolph Robert
Blood (b. 1893
- d. 1967)
15 Oct 1935 -
1940
William Leslie
Heape
(b. 1896 - d. 1972)
19 Jun 1940 - 2 Jun
1942 Charles Henry Vincent Talbot
(b. 1902 - d. 19..)
2 Jun 1942 - 26 Aug 1942 Terrence
Bertrand Comissiong (b. 1893 -
d. 1956)
(acting)
26 Aug 1942 - Jun 1951 George
Conrad
Green
(b. 1897 - d. 1976)
Jun 1951 - 2 Aug 1951 John Montague
Stow (acting) (b.
1911 - d. 1997)
2 Aug 1951 -
1957
Wallace
Macmillan
(b. 1913 - d. 1992)
18 Mar 1955 - 1955
Cyprian Bernard Gibbs
(b.
1910 - d. 2006)
(acting for Macmillan)
Mar 1957 - 1962
James Monteith
Lloyd
(b. 1911 - d. 1995)
26 Sep 1962 -
1964
Lionel Achille Pinard
(b. 1912 - d. 1998)
30 Jan 1964 - 2 Mar
1967 Ian Graham
Turbott
(b. 1922 - d. 2016)
Governors
3 Mar 1967 - 1 Jun 1968 Ian
Graham
Turbott
(s.a.)
(from 1 Jan 1968, Sir Ian
Graham Turbott)
1 Jun 1968 - 8 Jun 1968 Thomas Joseph
Gibbs (acting) (b. 1894 - d.
19..) GULP
8 Jun 1968 - 21 Jan 1974 Hilda Louise Bynoe
(f)
(b. 1921 - d. 2013)
(from 1 Jan 1969, Dame Hilda Louise Bynoe)
24 Jan 1974 - 7 Feb
1974 Leo Victor de Gale
(acting) (b.
1921 - d. 1986)
King/Queen¹
7 Feb 1974
-
the King/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 Godwin Scoon
(b. 1935 - d. 2013)
(from 8 Mar 1979, Sir Paul Godwin Scoon)
(detained and prevented from
exercising functions 20-25 Oct 1983)
31 Jul 1992 - 8 Aug 1996
Reginald Oswald
Palmer
(b. 1923 - d. 2016)
(from 6 Sep 1992, Sir Reginald
Oswald Palmer)
(acting to 6 Aug 1992)
8 Aug 1996 - 18 Nov 2008 Daniel
Charles Williams
(b. 1935 - d. 2024)
(from 9 Aug 1996, Sir Daniel Charles Williams)
18 Nov 2008 - 27 Nov 2008 Vacant
27 Nov 2008 - 3 May
2013 Carlyle Arnold Glean
(b. 1932 - d. 2021)
(from 10 Feb 2009, Sir Carlyle Arnold
Glean)
3 May 2013 - 7 May 2013 Lawrence
Joseph
(acting)
(b. 1944)
7 May 2013
-
Cécile Ellen Fleurette La
Grenade
(f)
(b. 1952)
(from 14 May 2013, Dame Cécile Ellen
Fleurette La Grenade)
Leader of Government Business
1951 - 1954
Eric Matthew Gairy (1st time)
(b. 1922 - d. 1997) GULP
1955 - Sep 1957
Eric Matthew Gairy (2nd
time) (s.a.)
GULP
Chief ministers
Sep 1957 - 1958
Herbert Augustus
Blaize (1st time) (b. 1918 - d. 1989) GNP
1958 - 1 Jan
1960
Eric Matthew Gairy
(s.a.)
GULP
1 Jan 1960 - 29 Mar 1961 Herbert Augustus
Blaize (2nd time) (s.a.)
GNP
29 Mar 1961 - 16 Aug 1961 George
Elliott Dunbar Clyne
(b. 1920 - d. 1984) GULP
16 Aug 1961 - 19 Jun 1962 Eric Matthew
Gairy (3rd time)
(s.a.)
GULP
19 Jun 1962 - 21 Sep 1962 governor's
rule
21 Sep 1962 - 2 Mar 1967 Herbert Augustus
Blaize (3rd time)
(s.a.)
GNP
Premiers
3 Mar 1967 - 26 Aug 1967
Herbert Augustus Blaize
(s.a.)
GNP
26 Aug 1967 - 7 Mar 1974
Eric Matthew
Gairy
(s.a.)
GULP
Prime ministers
7 Mar 1974 - 13 Mar 1979
Eric Matthew
Gairy
(s.a.)
GULP
(from 11 Jun 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 Winston Bernard Coard
(b.
1944)
NJ
(acting for Bishop)
19 Oct 1983 - 25 Oct
1983 Hudson
Austin
(b. 1938 - d. 2022) Mil
(head of Revolutionary Military Council)
9 Dec 1983
- 4 Dec 1984 Nicholas Alexander
Brathwaite (b. 1925 - d.
2016) 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 - d. 2012) NDC
22 Jun 1995 - 9 Jul
2008 Keith Claudius Mitchell (1st time) (b.
1946)
NNP
9 Jul 2008 - 20 Feb
2013 Tillman Joseph Thomas
(b. 1945)
NDC
20 Feb 2013 - 24 Jun
2022 Keith Claudius Mitchell (2nd time)
(s.a.)
NNP
24 Jun 2022 -
Dickon Amiss Thomas Mitchell
(b.
1978)
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) Mil
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 - 8 Sep 2022: "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";
(c) from 8 Sep 2022: "By the Grace of God,
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland and of Grenada and of His 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: GULP
= Grenada United Labor Party (democratic socialist,
authoritarian in 1972-1979, est.1950); NDC
= National Democratic Congress (liberal,
center-left, est.1987); NNP =
New National Party (conservative, center-right, est.Aug
1984); Mil = Military;
- Former parties:
GNP = Grenada National Party
(conservative, merged into NNP, 1955-Aug 1984);
NJ = New JEWEL Movement (New
Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation
"New Jewel", Marxist-Lenninist communist, 11 Mar
1973-1983)
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