Governor-General of the West Indies Federation
| Governor-General of the West Indies Federation | |
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| Style | His Excellency The Right Honourable |
| Residence | Governor's House, Port of Spain, Windward Islands |
| Appointer | Monarch of the United Kingdom |
| Formation | 3 January 1958 |
| First holder | The Baron Hailes |
| Final holder | The Baron Hailes |
| Abolished | 31 May 1962 |
The governor-general of the West Indies Federation was a post in the government of the West Indies. The federation, also known as the British Caribbean Federation, consisted of Antigua (with Barbuda), Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks & Caicos Islands. The federation was formed on 3 January 1958, and was formally dissolved on 31 May 1962.
The governor-general was constitutionally required to take advice from the prime minister of the West Indies Federation, but was by far the more powerful and prestigious of the two positions, containing almost all executive authority within the government and containing powers far beyond that of governors-general in the Dominions.[1]
Governor-general of the West Indies Federation (1958–1962)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Monarch | Prime Minister | ||
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| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 |  | The Lord Hailes (1901–1974) | 3 January 1958 | 31 May 1962 | 4 years, 148 days | Elizabeth II | Adams |
References
- ^ The Growth of the Modern West Indies. Gordon K. Lewis, Ian Randle Publishers, 2004. Pp. 386-90.
External links
- World Statesmen – West Indies Federation
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Governor-General of the Caribbean
- British West Indies
- Danish West Indies
- Dutch Caribbean
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
- French West Indies
- West Indies Federation
Indies
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Sea
- Aves Island
- San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank~
- Serranilla Bank~
continental
zone
- Quintana Roo
- Cozumel
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groupings
may include:
- Bermuda#
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Nicaragua
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| The Guianas |
N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.
^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.
†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.
ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.
#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.
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