List of colonial governors of Virginia - Definition and Overview

This is a list of colonial governors of Virginia. Some of these governors never visited the New World and governed through deputies resident in the colony.

Contents

1 Virginia Company of London Governors (1607-1624)

2 Crown Governors (1624-1652)

3 Commonwealth of England Governors (1652-1660)

4 Crown Governors (1660-1775)

5 See also

Virginia Company of London Governors (1607-1624)

Edward Maria Wingfield (1607)
John Ratcliffe (1608)
Matthew Scrivener (1608)
John Smith (1608-1609)
George Percy (1609-1610)
Thomas Gates (1610)
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1610-1611)
- George Percy (1611)
- Thomas Dale (1611, 1614-1616)
- Thomas Gates (1611-1614)
- George Yeardley 1616-1617, 1619-1621)
- Samuel Argall (1617-1619)
- Francis Wyatt (1621-1624)

Crown Governors (1624-1652)

Francis Wyatt (1624-1626, 1639-1642)
George Yeardley (1626-1627)
Francis West (1627-1629)
John Pott (1629-1630)
John Harvey (1630-1635, 1637-1639)
John West (1635-1637)
William Berkeley (1642-1652)
Richard Kemp (1644-1645)

Commonwealth of England Governors (1652-1660)

Richard Bennett (1652-1655)
Edward Digges (1655-1656)
Samuel Mathews (1656-1660)
William Berkeley (1660)

Crown Governors (1660-1775)

William Berkeley (1669-1677)
Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway (1677-1683)
Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham (1683-1692)
Edmund Andros (1692-1698)
Francis Nicholson (1698-1705)
Edward Nott (1705-1706)
Edmund Jenings (1706-1708)
Robert Hunter (1707-1709)
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1710-1737, absentee)
- Lieutenant Governor: Alexander Spotswood (1710-1722)
Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1737-1754)
- Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751-January 1758)
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, (1756-1759)
- Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751 to January 1758)
Jeffery Amherst (1759-1768)
John Blair (1768)
Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (1768-1770)
William Nelson (1770-1771)
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1771-June 1775)