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Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of the Isle of Wight:

Governors of the Isle of Wight

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• 1538-1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (later Earl of Essex)

• 1558-?: John Paulet, 2nd Baron St John (later Marquess of Winchester)

• 1633-1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
• 1642-1647: Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
• 1647-1647: Captain Hammond
• 1648-1659: Col. William Sydenham
• 1660: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
• 1660-1661: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
• 1661-1667: Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
• 1668-1692: Sir Robert Holmes
• 1693: Hon. Thomas Tollemache
• 1693-1707: John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
• 1707-1710: Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton
• 1710-1715: General John Richmond Webb
• 1715-1726: William Cadogan (later Earl Cadogan)
• 1726-1733: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• 1733-1734: John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
• 1734-1742: John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington
• 1742-1746: Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• 1746-1762: John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth
• 1763-1764: Thomas Holmes, 1st Baron Holmes
• 1764-1766: Hans Stanley
• 1766-1770: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton
• 1770-1780: Hans Stanley
• 1780-1782: Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
• 1782-1791: Harry Paulet, 6th Duke of Bolton
• 1791-1807: Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton
• 1807-1841: James Harris, 2nd Earl of Malmesbury
• 1841-1857: William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury

• 1889-1896: Prince Henry of Battenberg
• 1896-1944: Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom

• 1957-1965: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
• 1969-1974: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Lord Lieutenant from 1974-79)

• 1992-1995: David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone

Sources

• The London Gazette
• Robert Walcott, English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)