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

Date fromDate toHolderSource
16551655 William Penn (1621-1670)HJ-DB
16551657 William Goodson (1610-1680)HJ-DB
16561657 Christopher Myngs (1625-1666)HJ-DB
16621664 Christopher Myngs (1625-1666)HJ-DB
16631663 Thomas WhetstoneHJ-DB
16691669 Henry Morgan (1635-1688)HJ-DB
16921692Sir Francis Wheler (d.1693/94)HJ-DB
17021702/11/04 John Benbow (1652/53-1702)HJ-DB
17031705 William WhetstoneHJ-DB
17061706 William KerrHJ-DB
17071709 Charles Wager (1666-1743)HJ-DB
1710/01/04  Jonathan Spann (c.1661-1712) ADM 6/11/18ADM 6/11
17121712/07 James Littleton (1668-1722/23) ADM 107/3/65HJ-DB
1712/03/14 Sir Hovenden Walker (1666-1725) ADM 6/11/199ADM 6/11
1716/09/14  Bartholomew Candler (d.1722) ADM 6/12/77ADM 6/12
1719/05/181720 Edward Vernon (1684-1757) ADM 6/12/171ADM 6/12
1725/02/021725/09/13 Thomas Scott (d.1725) ADM 6/13/85ADM 6/13
1727/12/16  Edward St Loe (c.1682-1729) ADM 6/13/185ADM 6/13
1727/12/161728/03/14 Edward St Loe (c.1682-1729) ADM 6/13/185ADM 6/13
17281728 Edward Hopson (1671-1728)HJ-DB
1728/03/151729 Edward St Loe (c.1682-1729) ADM 6/13/199ADM 6/13
17291729 William Smith (c.1674-1756)HJ-DB
17291729 William Smith (d.1756)E-WIKI
1729/06/201730The Hon. Charles Stewart (1681-1740/41) ADM 6/14/30ADM 6/14
1732/02/21  Richard Lestock (1678/79-1748) ADM 6/14/102ADM 6/14
1732/06/151735Sir Chaloner Ogle (1681-1750) ADM 6/14/112HPO
1734/12/131737/08/19 Digby Dent (c.1680-1737) ADM 6/14/199HJ-DB
1737/12/091738 Charles Browne (c.1678-1753) ADM 6/15/85ADM 6/15
17391742 Edward Vernon (1684-1757)HJ-DB
1742/12/02 Sir Chaloner Ogle (1681-1750) ADM 6/16/120ADM 6/16
1743/10/03 Sir Chaloner Ogle (1681-1750) ADM 6/16/223ADM 6/16
1744/05/291746/09/16 Thomas Davers (1689-1746) ADM 6/16/311

Renewed 19.6.1744 as Vice-Admiral of the White

TRN3
1746/101747 Cornelius Mitchell (d.1749)HJ-DB
17471747 Digby Dent (1710-1761)HJ-DB
1747/06/061749 Charles Knowles (1704-1777) ADM 6/17/233

Recommissioned 12.9.1747. ADM 6/17/267.

ADM 6/19
1748/11/041752The Hon. George Townshend (1716-1769) ADM 6/17/404HJ-DB
1752/01/14  Thomas Coates (1712-1767) ADM 6/18/21ADM 6/18
17551757/07The Hon. George Townshend (1716-1769)HJ-DB
1755/01/30  Thomas Brodrick (1704-1769) ADM 6/18/126ADM 6/18
1757/071760 Thomas Coates (1712-1767)E-WIKI
1760/01/241761/11/20 Charles Holmes (1711-1761) ADM 6/19/131HPO
17621762Sir James Douglas (1703-1787)HJ-DB
17621764 Augustus Keppel (1725-1786)HJ-DB
1763/07/141766/11/25Sir William Burnaby (1710-1776) ADM 6/19/520ADM 50
1766/06/071769 William Parry (c.1705-1779) ADM 6/20/123HJ-DB
1769/05/161770/05/26 Arthur Forrest (c.1716-1770) ADM 6/20/237HJ-DB
1770/08/01  George Mackenzie (d.1780) ADM 6/20/285ADM 6/20
1771/01/23 Sir George Brydges Rodney (Baronet ) (1719-1792) ADM 6/20/342

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

ADM 6/20
1774/03/29  Clark Gayton (1712-1787) ADM 6/21/21ADM 6/21
1777/06/111781/07/19Sir Peter Parker (1715-1811) ADM 6/21/291ADM 6/21
1781/07/191783 Joshua Rowley (1734-1790) ADM 6/22/314ADM 6/22
1783/08/141784/02/12 James Gambier (1723-1789) ADM 6/23/111ADM 6/23
1784/08/261786 Alexander Innes (c.1713-1786) ADM 6/23/240ADM 6/23
17851785 John Pakenham (1743-1807)HJ-DB
1785/09/081789 Alan Gardner (1742-1809) ADM 6/23/297ADM 6/23
1789/02/111793 Philip Affleck (1726-1799) ADM 6/23/510ADM 6/23
1792/10/051795 John Ford (c.1738-1796) ADM 6/24/176ADM 6/24
1794/11/081796 William Parker (1740/41-1802) ADM 6/25/105ADM 6/25
1796/08/241800Sir Hyde Parker (1739-1807) ADM 6/26/23ADM 6/26
18001801The Hon. Hugh Seymour (1759-1801)HJ-DB
18021802 Robert MontaguHJ-DB
18031804 John Thomas Duckworth (1748-1817)HJ-DB
18041808 James Richard Dacres (1749-1810)E-WIKI
18041808 Richard Dacres (1761-1837)HJ-DB
18091811 Bartholomew Samuel Rowley (1763-1811)HJ-DB
18111813 Charles Stirling (1760-1833)HJ-DB
18131814 William BrownHJ-DB
18141816 Alexander Inglis Cochrane (1758-1832)HJ-DB
18161817 John Erskine Douglas (1758-1847)HJ-DB
18171820Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762-1820)HJ-DB
18201823Sir Charles Rowley (1770-1845)E-WIKI
18231823Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen (1771-1849)HJ-DB
18241827Sir Lawrence William HalsteadHJ-DB
18281829 Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (1774-1840)HJ-DB
18291832 Edward Griffith Colpoys (1767-1832)HJ-DB
18331833 Arthur FarquharHJ-DB

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