This is a list of colonial governors of Virginia. Some of these governors never visited the New World and governed through deputies resident in the colony.

Contents

1 Virginia Company of London Governors (1607-1624) 2 Crown Governors (1624-1652) 3 Commonwealth of England Governors (1652-1660) 4 Crown Governors (1660-1775) 5 See also

Virginia Company of London Governors (1607-1624)

• Edward Maria Wingfield (1607)
• John Ratcliffe (1608)
• Matthew Scrivener (1608)
• John Smith (1608-1609)
• George Percy (1609-1610)
• Thomas Gates (1610)
• Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1610-1611)
  • George Percy (1611)
  • Thomas Dale (1611, 1614-1616)
  • Thomas Gates (1611-1614)
  • George Yeardley 1616-1617, 1619-1621)
  • Samuel Argall (1617-1619)
  • Francis Wyatt (1621-1624)

Crown Governors (1624-1652)

• Francis Wyatt (1624-1626, 1639-1642)
• George Yeardley (1626-1627)
• Francis West (1627-1629)
• John Pott (1629-1630)
• John Harvey (1630-1635, 1637-1639)
• John West (1635-1637)
• William Berkeley (1642-1652)
• Richard Kemp (1644-1645)

Commonwealth of England Governors (1652-1660)

• Richard Bennett (1652-1655)
• Edward Digges (1655-1656)
• Samuel Mathews (1656-1660)
• William Berkeley (1660)

Crown Governors (1660-1775)

• William Berkeley (1669-1677)
• Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway (1677-1683)
• Francis Howard , 5th Baron Howard of Effingham (1683-1692)
• Edmund Andros (1692-1698)
• Francis Nicholson (1698-1705)
• Edward Nott (1705-1706)
• Edmund Jenings (1706-1708)
• Robert Hunter (1707-1709)
• George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1710-1737, absentee)
  • Lieutenant Governor: Alexander Spotswood (1710-1722)
• Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1737-1754)
  • Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751-January 1758)
• John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, (1756-1759)
  • Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751 to January 1758)
• Jeffery Amherst (1759-1768)
• John Blair (1768)
• Norborne Berkeley , Baron de Botetourt (1768-1770)
• William Nelson (1770-1771)
• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1771-June 1775)

See also

• Virginia
• Virginia Company of London
• Virginia Colony
• List of Governors of Virginia