List of governors of the Isle of Wight

• 1509–1520: Sir Nicholas Wadham (1472-1542) of Merryfield and Edge, "Captain of the Isle of Wight". • 1520–1538: Sir James Worsley • 1538–1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (later Earl of Essex) • 1540–1553: Richard Worsley • 1553–1558: Sir William Girling • 1558–1560: William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester • 1560–1565: Richard Worsley (reappointed) • 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 • 1857–1888: Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley • 1889–1896: Prince Henry of Battenberg • 1896–1944: Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom • 1957–1965: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington • 1965–1974: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Lord Lieutenant 1974–1979) • 1992–1995: David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone ==Lieutenant-governors of the Isle of Wight==

• c.1689–1693: William Stephens • 1694–1701: Joseph Dudley • 1702–1710: Anthony Morgan • 1710–1714: Henry Holmes • 1715–1729: Anthony Morgan • 1733–1751: Charles Armand Powlett • 1754–1762: Henry Holmes • 1763–1766: John Stanwix • ?1766–1768: John Mompesson • 1768–1795: William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe • 1798–1808: Sir William Medows • 1808–1812: Francis Edward Gwyn • 1812–1815: Charles Leigh • 1815–1839: Mervyn Archdall ==Deputy Governors==

• 1899–1910: Thomas Belhaven Henry Cochrane • 1910–1913: Francis John Stuart Hay-Newton • 1913–1928: Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson ==See also==