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Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica - Greater Antilles - British

Date fromDate toHolderSource
1655 
William PennBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1644-1670
HJ-DB
16551657
William GoodsonBritish
Naval Sailor
Ship Owner
Service 1650-1659
HJ-DB
16561657
Christopher MyngsBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1651-1655
HJ-DB
16621664
Christopher MyngsBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1651-1655
HJ-DB
1663 
Thomas WhetstoneBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1656-1659
HJ-DB
1669 
Henry MorganBritish
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Pirate
Administrator
Service 1635-1688
HJ-DB
1692/101693/10
Sir Francis WhelerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1678-1689
ADM 6/3/60		HJ-DB
17021702/11/04
John BenbowBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1678-1702
ADM 6/3/41		HJ-DB
17031705
William WhetstoneBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1689-1705
ADM 6/4/71		HJ-DB
1706 
William KerrBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1688-1720
HJ-DB
17071709
Charles WagerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1692-1734
HJ-DB
1710/01/04 
Jonathan SpannBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1679-1711
ADM 6/11/18		ADM 6/11
17121712/07
James LittletonBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1692-1719
ADM 107/3/65		HJ-DB
1712/03/14 
Sir Hovenden WalkerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1688-1715
ADM 6/11/199		ADM 6/11
1716/09/14 
Bartholomew CandlerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1705-1718
ADM 6/12/77		ADM 6/12
1719/05/181720
Edward VernonBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1702-1746
ADM 6/12/171		ADM 6/12
1725/02/021725/09/13
Thomas ScottBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1695-1723
ADM 6/13/85		ADM 6/13
1727/12/16 
Edward St LoeBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1695-1728
ADM 6/13/185		ADM 6/13
1727/12/161728/03/14
Edward St LoeBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1695-1728
ADM 6/13/185		ADM 6/13
1728 
Edward HopsonBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1682-1730
HJ-DB
1728/03/151729
Edward St LoeBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1695-1728
ADM 6/13/199		ADM 6/13
1729 
William SmithBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1691-1747
HJ-DB
1729 
William SmithBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1713-1747
E-WIKI
1729/06/201730
The Hon. Charles StewartBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1701-1736
ADM 6/14/30		ADM 6/14
1732/02/21 
Richard LestockBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1701-1746
ADM 6/14/102		ADM 6/14
1732/06/151735
Sir Chaloner OgleBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1697-1749
ADM 6/14/112		HPO
1734/12/131737/08/19
Digby DentBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1697-1737
ADM 6/14/199		HJ-DB
1737/12/091738
Charles BrowneBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1693-1740
ADM 6/15/85		ADM 6/15
17391742
Edward VernonBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1702-1746
HJ-DB
1742/12/02 
Sir Chaloner OgleBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1697-1749
ADM 6/16/120		ADM 6/16
1743/10/03 
Sir Chaloner OgleBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1697-1749
ADM 6/16/223		ADM 6/16
1744/05/291746/09/16
Thomas DaversBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1704-1746
ADM 6/16/311

Renewed 19.6.1744 as Vice-Admiral of the White

TRN3
1746/101747
Cornelius MitchellBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1720-1748
HJ-DB
1747 
Digby DentBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1726-1758
HJ-DB
1747/06/061749
Charles KnowlesBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1718-1770
ADM 6/17/233

Recommissioned 12.9.1747. ADM 6/17/267.

ADM 6/19
1748/11/041752
The Hon. George TownshendBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1729-1765
ADM 6/17/404		HJ-DB
1752/01/14 
Thomas CoatesBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1722-1762
ADM 6/18/21		ADM 6/18
17551757/07
The Hon. George TownshendBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1729-1765
HJ-DB
1755/01/30 
Thomas BrodrickBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1723-1759
ADM 6/18/126		ADM 6/18
1757/071760
Thomas CoatesBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1722-1762
E-WIKI
1760/01/241761/11/20
Charles HolmesBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1734-1761
ADM 6/19/131		HPO
1762 
Sir James DouglasBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1732-1782
HJ-DB
17621764
Augustus KeppelBritish
Naval Sailor
Marine
Service 1743-1783
HJ-DB
1763/07/141766/11/25
Sir William BurnabyBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1722-1770
ADM 6/19/520		ADM 50
1766/06/071769
William ParryBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1728-1778
ADM 6/20/123		HJ-DB
1769/05/161770/05/26
Arthur ForrestBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1740-1744
ADM 6/20/237		HJ-DB
1770/08/01 
George MackenzieBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1740-1779
ADM 6/20/285		ADM 6/20
1771/01/23 
Sir George Brydges Rodney (Baronet )British
Naval Sailor
Service 1740-1782
ADM 6/20/342

Also in the Gulph of Mexico from the Mississippi to Cape Florida

ADM 6/20
1774/03/29 
Clark GaytonBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1723-1782
ADM 6/21/21		ADM 6/21
1777/06/111781/07/19
Sir Peter ParkerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1743-1799
ADM 6/21/291		ADM 6/21
1781/07/191783
Joshua RowleyBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1747-1787
ADM 6/22/314		ADM 6/22
1783/08/141784/02/12
James GambierBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1743-1800
ADM 6/23/111		ADM 6/23
1784/08/261786
Alexander InnesBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1733-1786
ADM 6/23/240		ADM 6/23
1785 
John PakenhamBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1765-1805
HJ-DB
1785/09/081789
Alan GardnerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1755-1808
ADM 6/23/297		ADM 6/23
1789/02/111793
Philip AffleckBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1743-1799
ADM 6/23/510		ADM 6/23
1792/10/051795
John FordBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1753-1795
ADM 6/24/176		ADM 6/24
1794/11/081796
William ParkerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1762-1852
ADM 6/25/105		ADM 6/25
1796/07/22 
John Thomas DuckworthBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1759-1817

vice rear-admiral Parker returned to England ill.

NRS169
1796/08/241800
Sir Hyde ParkerBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1751-1805
ADM 6/26/23		ADM 6/26
18001801
The Hon. Hugh SeymourBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1776-1797
HJ-DB
1801/09/161802
Robert MontaguBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1779-1825
RNB1823
18031804
John Thomas DuckworthBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1759-1817
HJ-DB
18041808
James Richard DacresBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1762-1808
E-WIKI
18041808
Richard DacresBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1775-1807
HJ-DB
18091811
Bartholomew Samuel RowleyBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1779-1811
HJ-DB
18111813
Charles StirlingBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1778-1813
HJ-DB
18131814
William BrownBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1788-1815
HJ-DB
18141816
Alexander Inglis CochraneBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1778-1830
HJ-DB
18161817
John Erskine DouglasBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1778-1838
HJ-DB
18171820
Sir Home Riggs PophamBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1783-1820
HJ-DB
18201823
Sir Charles RowleyBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1789-1825
E-WIKI
1823 
Sir Edward William Campbell Rich OwenBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1793-1846
HJ-DB
18241827
Sir Lawrence William HalsteadBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1781-1837
HJ-DB
18281829
The Hon. Charles Elphinstone FleemingBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1793-1837
HJ-DB
18291832
Edward Griffith ColpoysBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1794-1822
HJ-DB
1833 
Arthur FarquharBritish
Naval Sailor
Service 1798-1818
HJ-DB

Other Commander-in-Chief locations

Baltic Sea, Barbados & the Leeward Islands, Basque Roads, Black Sea, Cape of Good Hope, Chatham, China, Cork, Devonport, Dunkirk, East Indies, English Channel, France, Gibraltar, Kronshtadt, Le Havre, Leith, Newfoundland, North America, North America & West Indies, North Sea, Nova Scotia, Pacific Ocean, Plymouth, Plymouth Dockyard, Portsmouth, Portugal, Ribadeo, River Medway and The Nore, Sheerness, South America, Thames, Thames and Medway, Thames, Medway and The Nore, The Channel Islands, The Downs, The Mediterranean Sea, The Nore, Weser, Elbe and Ems, West Indies,

Sources


IDNameAuthorType
ADM 50ADM 50 1702-1916 Admiralty: Admirals' Journals Document
ADM 6/11ADM 6/11 Commission and Warrant Book 1709 10 Nov.-1714 13 Oct. Archive
ADM 6/12ADM 6/12 Commission and Warrant Book 1714 14 Oct.-1721 Jan. Archive
ADM 6/13ADM 6/13 Commission and Warrant Book 1721 Feb.-1728 3 Oct. Archive
ADM 6/14ADM 6/14 Commission and Warrant Book 1728 4 Oct.-1735 23 Dec. Archive
ADM 6/15ADM 6/15 Commission and Warrant Book 1735 26 Dec.-1742 4 Jan. Archive
ADM 6/16ADM 6/16 Commission and Warrant Book 1742 Jan 4 - 1745 Sept 18 Archive
ADM 6/18ADM 6/18 Commission and Warrant Book 1751 May-1758 Oct.  Archive
ADM 6/19ADM 6/19 Commission and Warrant Book 1758 Nov.-1763 Archive
ADM 6/20ADM 6/20 Commission and Warrant Book 1764-1773 Archive
ADM 6/21ADM 6/21 Commission and Warrant Book 1774 Jan.-1779 June  Archive
ADM 6/22ADM 6/22 Commission and Warrant Book 1779 July-1782 Archive
ADM 6/23ADM 6/23 Commission and Warrant Book 1783-1789 Aug.  Archive
ADM 6/24ADM 6/24 Commission and Warrant Book 1789 Sep.-1793  Archive
ADM 6/25ADM 6/25 Commission and Warrant Book 1794-1796 Apr.  Archive
ADM 6/26ADM 6/26 Commission and Warrant Book 1796 May-1798 Archive
E-WIKIWikipediaVarious, Web Site
HJ-DBHistoric JamaicaFrank Cundall, Book
HPOHistory of Parliament online Web Site
NRS169NRS Vol 169 - Papers And Correspondence Of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth Volume 1 Book
RNB1823Royal Navy BiographyJohn Marshall, Digital Book
TRN3The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present Vol IIIWilliam Laird Clowes, Digital Book
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