List of governors of the Gold Coast

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This is a list of colonial administrators in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) from the start of English presence in 1621 until Ghana's independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. In addition to the Gold Coast Colony, the governor of the Gold Coast was for most of the period also responsible for the administration of the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Protectorate and the League of Nations/United Nations mandate/trust territory of British Togoland.

Governors of the Gold Coast (1621–1751)

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Portrait Name Took office Left office
  Sir William St John 1621 1623
  William Greenhill 1660 Unknown
  Henry Greenhill 1680 1685
  Henry Nurse 1685 1695
  John Bloome 1691 1697
  Baggs 1697 1701
  Sir Dalby Thomas 1703 1711

Governors of the Committee of Merchants of the Gold Coast (1751–1822)

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Portrait Name Took office Left office
  Thomas Melvil 23 June 1751 23 January 1756
  William Tymewell 23 January 1756 17 February 1756
  Charles Bell 17 February 1756 15 October 1757
  Nassau Senior 15 October 1757 10 May 1761
  Charles Bell 10 May 1761 15 August 1763
  William Mutter 15 August 1763 1 March 1766
  John Hippersley 1 March 1766 11 August 1766
  Gilbert Petrie 11 August 1766 21 April 1769
  John Crossle 21 April 1769 11 August 1770
  Richard Miles 20 January 1777 25 March 1780
  John Roberts 25 March 1780 20 May 1781
  John B. Weuves 20 May 1781 29 April 1782
  Richard Miles 29 April 1782 29 January 1784
  James Morgue 29 January 1784 24 January 1787
  Thomas Price 24 January 1787 27 April 1787
  Thomas Morris 27 April 1787 20 June 1789
  William Fielde 20 June 1789 15 November 1791
  John Gordon 15 November 1791 31 March 1792
  Archibald Dalzel 31 March 1792 16 December 1798
  Jacob Mould 16 December 1798 4 January 1799
  John Gordon 4 January 1799 28 April 1800
  Archibald Dalzel 28 April 1800 30 September 1802
  Jacob Mould 30 September 1802 8 February 1805
  George Torrane 8 February 1805 4 December 1807
  Edward White 4 December 1807 21 April 1816
  Joseph Dawson 21 April 1816 19 January 1817
  John Hope Smith 19 January 1817 27 March 1822

Governors of the Gold Coast (1822–1828)

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Governors of the Committee of Merchants of the Gold Coast (1828–1843)

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Governors of the Gold Coast (1843–1960)

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In 1843 a governor was appointed subordinate to the Governor of Sierra Leone until 1850. After the Third Anglo-Ashanti War of 1873–74, the Gold Coast was formally declared a crown colony.

In 1957, the Gold Coast Colony, the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Protectorate and the British Togoland Trust Territory, became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations called Ghana. The Governor-General of Ghana served as the representative of the Queen of Ghana, whose formal title in Ghana was ‘Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Ghana and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth’. The entire dominion formed part of Her Majesty's dominions until the country became a republic in 1960.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "No. 27245". The London Gazette. 9 November 1900. p. 6854.

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