What is List of colonial heads of The Gambia?
This is a list of '''colonial [[administrator]]s in [[The Gambia]]''' from when [[Fort James]] was created by the [[United Kingdom]] in 1815 until The Gambia's [[independence]] in 1965. ==Commandants of Fort James (1815–1829)== * [[Alexander Grant]], 1815–1821 ==Lieutenant Governors of The Gambia (1829–1843)== In 1821, The Gambia became a British [[colony]]. A [[lieutenant governor]] was appointed in 1829. They reported to the [[List of colonial heads of Sierra Leone|Governor of Sierra Leone]]. * [[Alexander Findlay]], 1829–1830 * [[George Rendall]], 1830–1837 * [[Thomas Lewis Ingram]], 1837–1838, ''first time'' * [[William Mackie]], 1838–1839 * Thomas Lewis Ingram, 1839–1840, ''second time'' * Sir [[Henry Vere Huntley]], 1840–1841 * Thomas Lewis Ingram, 1841–1843, ''third time'' ==Governors of The Gambia (1843–1866)== Between 1843 and 1866, a governor was appointed who was [[independent]] of the Governor of Sierra Leone. * [[Henry Froude Seagram]], 1843 * [[Edmund Norcott]], 1843–1844 * [[Charles Fitzgerald]], 1844–1847 * Sir [[Richard Graves MacDonnell]], 1847–1851 * Sir [[Arthur Edward Kennedy]], 1851–1852 * [[Luke Smythe O'Connor]], 1852–1859 * [[George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy]], 1859–1866 ==Administrators of The Gambia (1866–1901)== In 1866 the job of governor was replaced with that of an administrator who reported to the Governor of Sierra Leone. * [[Charles George Edward Patey]], 1866–1869 * [[Alexander Bravo]], 1869–1871 * [[Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan]], 1871–1873 * [[Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright]], 1873–1875 * Sir [[Samuel Rowe]], 1875–1877 * [[Valerius Skipton Gouldsbury]], 1877–1884 * Sir [[Cornelius Alfred Moloney]], 1884–1886 * Sir [[James Shaw Hay]], 1886–1888 * Sir [[Gilbert Thomas Carter]], 1888–1891 * Sir [[Robert Baxter Llewelyn]], 1891–1900 * Sir [[George Chardin Denton]], 1900–11 January 1901 ==Governors of The Gambia (1901–1965)== In 1901, an independent governor was again created. * Sir George Chardin Denton, 11 January 1901–21 December 1911, ''continued'' * [[Henry Lionel Galw