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Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, including the garrison at Holy Island (during English occupation of the Royal Burgh):

Governors of Berwick-upon-Tweed

For Scotland

For England

For Scotland

For England

For Great Britain (post 1707 Act of Union)

  • 1707–1711: Edmund Maine
  • 1713–1715: Sir Henry Belasyse
  • 1715–1718: Charles Wills
  • 1718–1719: George MacCartney
  • 1719–1732: Joseph Sabine
  • 1732–1733: George Wade
  • 1733–1735: Rich Russell
  • 1735–1740: Philip Honywood
  • 1740–1741: Thomas Whetham
  • 1742: James Tyrrell
  • 1742–1753: Thomas Howard
  • 1753–1765: John Guise
  • 1765–1778: Robert Monckton
  • 1778: Sir John Clavering (in fact Clavering had died in the East Indies the previous year)
  • 1778–1780: Sir John Mordaunt
  • 1780–1795: Hon. John Vaughan
  • 1795–1808: Hon. William Howe, later Viscount Howe
  • 1808–1833: Banastre Tarleton
  • 1833–1850: Sir James Bathurst

Lieutenant-Governors

  • 1702–1705: Edward Nott
  • 1705: William Dobyns
  •  ?–1733: Rich Russell
  • 1733–1737: James St. Clair
  • 1737–1747: John Price
  • 1749–1764: John Barrington
  • 1765?-1767: Roderick Gwynne
  • 1767–1793: William Hill
  • 1793–1794: Gerard Lake
  • 1794–1795: Edmund Stevens
  • 1795–?1842: George Ludlow
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