BARBADOS
See also ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN BARBADOS 1848 - 1945 ANGLICAN CHURCH IN BARBADOS
BRITISH COLONY OF BARBADOS
The uninhabited island of Barbados was annexed by the English in 1625 and colonized in 1627. It was privately owned by the Carlisle and Willoughby families until 1662 when it became a crown dependency. (1) The island was the center of the administrative union of the Windward Islands from 1833 to 1885. (1) The Willoughby continued to be entitled to part of the export duties until 1833. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS
Governors (also Governors-in-Chief of the Windward Islands 1833 - 1885) 1846 - 1848 LtCol. Sir William Reid 1791 - 1858 1848 - 1856 William Macbean George Colebrooke 1787 - 1870 1856 - 1859 Francis Hincks 1807 - 1885 1859 - 1868 James Walker 1809 - 1885 1868 - 1875 Rawson William Rawson 1812 - 1899 1875 Sanford Freeling* 1828 - 1894 1875 - 1876 Sir John Pope Hennessy 1834 - 1891 1876 - 1880 George Cumine Strahan 1838 - 1889 1880 D. J. Gamble* 1880 - 1885 William Robinson 1836 - 1912 1885 - 1889 Sir Charles Cameron Lees 1831 - 1898 1889 - 1891 Sir Walter Joseph Sendall 1833 - 1904 1891 - 1900 Sir James Shaw Hay 1839 - 1924 1900 - 1904 Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson 1851 - 1925 1904 - 1911 Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter 1848 - 1927 1911 - 1918 Sir Leslie Probyn 1862 - 1938 1918 - 1925 Ltgen. Sir (1920) Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien 1859 - 1935 1925 - 1933 Sir (1927) William Charles Fleming Robertson 1867 - 1938 1933 Harry Scott Newlands 1884 - 1933 1933 - 1938 Sir (1934) Mark Aitchison Young 1886 - 1974 1928 ...* 1938 - 1941 Sir (1939) Eubule John Waddington 1890 - 1957 1941 - 1947 Sir Henry Grattan Bushe 1886 - 1961
ANGLICAN CHURCH IN BARBADOS
The Anglican religion was introduced on Barbados in 1627 when the English settled it. The island was subject to the diocese of London until 1824 when a separate diocese of Barbados - which became part of the selfgoverning province of the West Indies in 1883 - was established. (1) (1) At first the diocese also included British Guiana, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and the Windward Islands. But later new dioceses were detached from its jurisdiction : - 1842 : Antigua (for the Leeward Islands) British Guyana - 1872 : Trinidad (and Tobago) - 1878 : the Windward Islands __________________________________________________________________________________HEADS OF THE COMMUNITY
Bishops (also Bishops of the Windward Islands 1878 - 1927) 1842 - 1869 Thomas Parry 1795 - 1870 1869 - 1873 ... 1873 - 1881 John Mitchinson 1833 - 1918 1882 - 18.. Herbert Bree 1900 - 1916 William Proctor Swaby, also Archbishop of the West Indies in 1916 1844 - 1916 1917 - 1927 Alfred Packenham Berkeley 1927 - 1945 David Williams Bentley 1945 - 1951 William James Hughes
HOME INDEX