BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

BRITISH DEPENDENCY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
The Eastern Virgin Islands became an English dependency in 1666. 
They became part of the administrative union - later (1871) federal colony - of the
Leeward Islands in 1833.
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BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS
(All subordinated to the British administrators of the Leeward Islands)

Presidents

1839 - 1850   Edward Hay Drummond Hay                       1815 - 1884 
1850 - 1852   ... 
1852 - 1854   John Cornell Chads 

Administrator

1854 - 1857   Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright               1817 - 1899 

Presidents

1857 - 1861   Thomas Price 
1861 - 1864   James Robert Longden                          1827 - 1891
1866 - 1869   Sir Arthur Carlos Henry Rumbold*              1820 - 1869 
1869 - 1872   Alexander Wilson Muir*
1873 - 1879   Richard Mahoney Hickson
1879 - 1882   John Kemys Spencer Churchill                  1835 - 1913
1882 - 1884   Richard Henry Kortright Dyett
1884 - 1887   Fredrick Augustus Pickering                   18.. - 1926

Commissioners

1887 - 1894   Edward John Cameron                           1858 - 1947
1894 - 1896   Alexander R. Mackay
1896 - 1903   Nathaniel George Cookman
1903 - 1910   Robert Stephen Earl
1910 - 1919   Thomas Leslie Hardtman Jarvis
1919 - 1922   Maj. Herbert Walter Peebles                   1877 - 1955
1922 - 1923   R. Hargrove
1923 - 1926   Otho Lewis Hancock                            1893 - 
1926 - 1934   Frank Cecil Clarkson                          1882 -
1934 - 1946   Donald Percy Wailling


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