Grenada

 

    Adopted 1974

 

15 Aug 1498               Discovered and claimed for Spain

20 Jun 1650               Annexed by France

05 Apr 1762               Annexed by Great Britan

03 Feb 1958 - 31 Mar 1962 Part of West Indies Federation

03 Mar 1967               Associated State

07 Feb 1974               Independence from UK

13 Mar 1979 - 25 Oct 1983 People's Revolutionary Government

25 Oct      - 06 Nov 1983 Occupied by the US

 

Govenors-general

07 Feb 1974 - 04 Oct 1978 Sir Leo Victor de Gale .............. 1921-1986

04 Oct 1978 - 06 Aug 1992 Sir Paul N. Scoon ................... 1935-

06 Aug 1992 - 08 Aug 1996 Reginald Oswald Palmer

08 Aug 1996 - 18 Nov 2008 Daniel Charles Williams

18 Nov 2008 -             Carlyle Arnold Glean

 

Prime Ministers

01 Aug 1967 - 13 Mar 1979 Eric Matthew Gairy .................. 1922-1997

13 Mar 1979 - 19 Oct 1983 Maurice Rupert Bishop ............... 1944-1983

                          (People's revolutianary government)

26 Sep      - 08 Oct 1983 Winston Bernard Coard ............... 1944-

                          (acting for Bishop)

19 Oct      - 25 Oct 1983 Hudson Austin ....................... 1938-

                          (Head of the Revolutionary Military Council)

09 Dec 1983 - 04 Dec 1984 Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite ....... 1925-

                          (1st Time)

04 Dec 1984 - 19 Dec 1989 Herbert Augustus Blaize ............. 1918-1989

20 Dec 1989 - 16 Mar 1990 Ben Joseph Jones .................... 1924-2005

16 Mar 1990 - 01 Feb 1995 Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite (2nd Time)

01 Feb      - 22 Jun 1995 George Ignatius Brizan .............. 1942-2012                      

22 Jun 1995 - 09 Jul 2008 Keith Claudius Mitchell

09 Jul 2008 -             Tillman Joseph Thomas

 

 

Commander of the US Forces

25 Oct     - 09 Dec 1983 Joseph Metcalf III ................... 1927-2007

Windward Islands

 

       1871               Federal colony of thw Windward Islands

01 Jul 1956               Territory

31 Dec 1959               Dissolved

 

Governors

1833 - 1836               Sir Lionel Smith

1836 - 1841               Sir Evan John Murray McGregor

1841                      Charles Henry Darling

1841 - 1846               Sir Charles Edward Grey

1846 - 1848               William Reid

1848 - 1856               William Macbean George Colebrooke

1856 - 1862               Francis Hincks

1862 - 1868               James Walker

1868 - 1875               Rawson William Rawson

1875 - 1876               Sir John Pope Hennessy

1876                      Sanford Freeling

1876 - 1880               George Cumine Strahan

1880 - 1885               William Robinson

1885 - 1888               Sir Walter Joseph Sendall

1888 - 1892               Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson

1892 - 1897               Sir Charles Bruce

1897 - 1900               Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney

1900 - 1906               Sir Robert Baxter Llewelyn

1906 - 1909               Sir Ralph Champneys Williams

1909 - 1914               William James Hayes Sadler

1914 - 1923               Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith

1923 - 1924               Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston

1924 - 1930               Sir Frederick Seton James

1930 - 1935               Sir Thomas Alexander Best

       1935 - 19 Jan 1937 Sir Selwyn MacGregor Grier

19 Jan 1937 - 18 May 1942 Sir Henry Bradshaw Popham

18 May 1942 - 1948        Sir Arthur Francis Grimble

1948 - 1953               Sir Robert Duncan Harris Arundell

1953 - 1955               Edward Betham Beetham

       1955 - 31 Dec 1959 Sir Colville Montgomery Deverell