TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
See also ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 1848 - 1945 ANGLICAN CHURCH IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Until 1899 Trinidad and Tobago was divided into : - Trinidad - Tobago __________________________________________________________________________________TRINIDAD
BRITISH DEPENDENCY OF TRINIDAD
The island of Trinidad - a Spanish possession since the early 16th century - was occupied by British forces in 1797. It was formally ceded by Spain in 1802, by the Treaty of Amiens. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Governors 1846 - 1854 George Francis Robert Harris, Baron Harris 1810 - 1872 1854 L. Bourchier* 1854 - 1856 Adm. Sir Charles Elliot 1801 - 1875 1856 - 1857 B. Brooks* 1857 - 1864 Robert William Keate 1814 - 1873 1864 ... Thompson* 1864 - 1866 Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton 1814 - 1877 1866 E. E. Bushworth* 1866 - 1870 Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon 1829 - 1912 1870 - 1874 James Robert Longden 1827 - 1891 1874 William Wellington Cairns 1828 - 1888 1874 John Scott Bushe* 1826 - 1887 1874 - 1876 Henry Turner Irving 1833 - 1923 1876 - 1877 John Scott Bushe* (2x) 1877 - 1878 G. M. Desvoeux* 1878 - 1880 Henry Turner Irving (2x) 1880 William Rowland Pyne* 1838 - 1885 1880 William A. G. Young* 1880 - 1884 Sir Sanford Freeling 1828 - 1894 1884 John Scott Bushe* (3x) 1884 Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee* 1827 - 1884 1844 - 1885 John Scott Bushe* (4x) 1885 Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock 1844 - 1908 1885 David Wilson* 1885 - 1891 Sir William Robinson 1836 - 1912 1891 - 1897 Sir Frederick Napier Broome 1842 - 1896 1897 - 1899 Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham 1842 - 1914
TOBAGO
BRITISH DEPENDENCY OF TOBAGO
The island of Tobago was claimed and settled by different European nations (Courland, England, France, the Netherlands and Spain) until 1684 when it was declared neutral territory by England and France. Despite this agreement it was occupied by the British in 1762 and formally ceded to them by France in 1763 (Treaty of Paris). The island now became a separate British colony, which was reoccupied by France in 1781 - 1793 and in 1802 - 1803 and which became part of the administrative union of the Windward Islands in 1833. In 1886 a major sugar crisis ruined Tobago and as part of a reconstruction program the island was detached from the Windward Islands and placed under the authority of Trinidad (1889). __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Lieutenant Governors 1845 - 1850 Maj. Laurence Graeme 1... - 1850 1850 - 1851 ...* 1851 David Robert Ross 1... - 1851 1852 Dominick Daly 1798 - 1868 1852 - 1854 Henry Yates* 1854 - 1856 Willoughby J. Shortland 1804 - 1869 1856 James Kirk* 1856 - 1857 James Henry Keens* 1857 - 1864 James Vickery Drysdale 1864 - 1865 ...* 1865 - 1872 Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright 1817 - 1899 1872 - 1875 Herbert Taylor Ussher 1836 - 1880 1875 - 1877 Col. Robert William Harley 1877 - 1880 LtCol. Augustus Fredrick Gore 1826 - Administrators 1880 - 1882 Edward Laborde 1882 - 1883 ...* 1883 - 1884 John Worrell Carrington 1847 - 1913 1884 - 1885 ...* 1885 Lorraine Gudded Hay 1885 - 1887 Robert Baxter Llewelyn 1845 - 1919 1887 - 1888 ...* 1888 - 1889 Lorraine Gudded Hay (2x) Commissioners (subordinated to the Governors of Trinidad) 1889 - 1892 Lorraine Gudded Hay s.a. 1892 Thomas Crossley Rayner* 1860 - 1914 1892 - 1899 William Low
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
BRITISH DEPENDENCY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
In 1899 the island of Tobago lost the last remnants of its separate administration and was annexed to Trinidad, becoming a ward of that colony. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Governors 1899 - 1900 Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham 1842 - 1914 1900 - 1904 Sir Cornelius Alfred Maloney 1848 - 1913 1904 - 1908 Sir Henry Moore Jackson 1849 - 1908 1909 - 1916 Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte 1852 - 1925 1916 - 1921 LtCol. Sir John Robert Chancellor 1870 - 1952 1922 - 1924 BrigGen. Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson 1873 - 1950 1924 - 1930 Sir Horace Archer Byatt 1875 - 1933 1930 - 1936 Sir Alfred Claud Hollis 1874 - 1961 1936 - 1938 Sir Arthur George Murchison Fletcher 1878 - 1954 1938 - 1942 Maj. Sir Hubert Winthrop Young 1885 - 1950 1942 - 1947 Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford 1890 - 1969
ANGLICAN CHURCH IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
The first attempt to introduce the Anglican religion in Trinidad and Tobago toke place in 1781 when an mission was established on Tobago. It was however only after the British occupation of Trinidad in 1797 that Anglicanism became really important, without however replacing Catholicism as main religion. The community was under the diocese of London until 1824 when it became subject to the new diocese of Barbados. Trinidad became a separate diocese - which in 1883 became part of the selfgoverning province of the West Indies - in 1872. The diocese also was in charge of the small Anglican community in Venezuela. __________________________________________________________________________________HEADS OF THE COMMUNITY
Bishops 1872 - 1889 Richard Rawle 1812 - 1889 1889 - 190. Thomas Hayes 1... - 1904 1904 - 191. John Francis Welsh 191. - 1918 ... 1918 - 1945 Arthur Henry Anstey, from 1943 to 1945 also Archbishop of the West Indies
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