1839 – April 1840 Henry George Macleod – April 1840 – 1846 George Francis Robert Harris, 3rd Baron Harris – 1846 – 1854 Legendre Charles Bourchier (acting) – 1854 Sir Charles Elliot – 10 March 1854 – 1856 B. Brooks (acting) – 1856 – 1857 Robert William Keate – 26 January 1857 – 1864 ? Thompson (acting) -1864 Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton – 6 September 1864 – 1866 Edward Everard Rushworth (acting) – 1866 Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon – 7 November 1866 – 1870 James Robert Longden – 25 June 1870 – 1874 William Wellington Cairns – 2 May 1874 – 1874 John Scott Bushe (1st time) (acting) – 1874 Henry Turner Irving (1st time) – 20 November 1874 – 1876 John Scott Bushe (2nd time) (acting) – 1876 – 1877 William Des Vœux (acting) – 1877 – 1878 Henry Turner Irving (2nd time) – 1878 – 1880 William Rowland Pyne (acting) – 1880 William Alexander George Young (acting) – 1880 Sir Sanford Freeling – 2 November 1880 – 1884 John Scott Bushe (3rd time) (acting) – 1884 Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee (acting) – 19 June 1884 – 8 August 1884 John Scott Bushe (4th time) (acting) – 1884 – 1885 Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock – 24 January 1885 – 1885 David Wilson (acting) 1885 Sir William Robinson – 9 October 1885 – 1889 (continued as Governor of Trinidad and Tobago until 1891) See also List of governors of Tobago List of governors of Trinidad and Tobago List of governors-general of Trinidad and Tobago List of presidents of Trinidad and Tobago List of prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago References External links Worldstatesman.com Governors Trinidad