BERMUDA
See also ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN BERMUDA 1848 - 1945
         ANGLICAN CHURCH IN BERMUDA
BRITISH DEPENDENCY OF BERMUDA
Bermuda, until then formally subject to Spain, was occupied by the English in 1609.
First privately owned - by the Virginia Company and afterwards by the Governor and
Company of London for the Plantation of the Somers Islands - it became an English
Colony in 1684.
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BRITISH CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Governors

(also Commanders-in--Chief)

1846 - 1854   Sir Charles Elliot                             1801 - 1875
1854          Montgomery Williams*
1854 - 1861   Freeman Murray                                 1805 - 1885
1861 - 1866   Harry St. George Ord                           1819 - 1885
1866 - 1867   W. G. Hamley*
1867          Arnold Thompson*
1867 - 1870   Frederick Edward Chapman                       1815 - 1893
1870          W. F. Brett*
1870 - 1871   Thomas Gore Browne                             1809 - 1887
1871          A. A. C. Fisher*
1871 - 1877   Sir John Henry Lefroy                          1817 - 1890
1877 - 1882   Sir Robert Michael Laffan                      1821 - 1882
1882 - 1888   Thomas Lionel John Galwey                      1822 - 1906
1888 - 1892   Edward Newdigate Newdegate                     1825 - 1902
1892 - 1896   Thomas Casey Lyons                             1830 - 1897
1896 - 1902   Sir (1900) George Digby Barker                 1833 - 1914
1902 - 1904   Sir Henry Le Guay Geary                        1837 - 1918
1904 - 1907   Sir Robert Macgregor Stewart                   1842 - 1919
1907 - 1908   Sir (1908) Josceline Heneage Wodehouse         1852 - 1930
1908 - 1912   Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener                 1859 - 1912
1912 - 1917   Sir George Mockworth Bullock                   1851 - 1926
1917 - 1922   Sir James Willcocks                            1857 - 1926
1922 - 1927   Sir Joseph John Asser                          1867 - 1949
1927 - 1930   Sir Louis Jean Bols                            1867 - 1930
1931 - 1936   Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt                       1871 - 1939
1936 - 1939   Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard            1876 - 1965
1939 - 1941   Sir Denis John Charles Kirwan Bernard          1882 - 1956
1941 - 1943   Edward George William Tyrwhitt Knollys, 
              Viscount Knollys                               1895 - 1966
1943 - 1945   David George Brownlow Cecil, Viscount 
              Burghley                                       1905 - 1981


ANGLICAN CHURCH IN BERMUDA
The first Anglicans settled on Bermuda in the early 17th century.
Their community was subject to the Diocese of London until 1825, to the Canadian
Diocese of Nova Scotia until 1839 and finally to the Diocese of Newfoundland until
1925 when Bermuda became a separate extra-provincial diocese.

Bishops

1839 - 1925   The Bishops of Newfoundland
1925 - 1949   Arthur Heber Browne



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