Appendix 2: Civil and military establishment of St Helena

Military

Governor: Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe

Deputy Adjutant-General: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Reade

Military Secretary: Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Wynyard

Aide-de-camp: Major Gideon Gorrequer

Inspector of Coasts and Volunteers: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lyster

Deputy Inspector of Hospitals: Dr Alexander Baxter, succeeded in 1828 by Dr Thomas Shortt

General Officer Commanding the Troops: Brigadier-General Sir George Bingham, succeeded in 1820 by Brigadier-General John Pine-Coffin

 

Orderly officers at Longwood

10 December 1815 to 24 July 1817: Captain T. Poppleton

25 July 1817 to 16 July 1818: Captain Henry Blakeney

16 July 1818 to 25 July 1818: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lyster

25 July 1818 to 5 September 1818: Captain Henry Blakeney

5 September 1818 to 9 February 1820: Captain George Nicholls

10 February 1820 to 26 April 1821: Captain Engelbert Lutyens

26 April 1821 to 6 May 1821: Captain William Crokat

Naval

Admirals commanding the St Helena station

15 October 1815 to 19 June 1816: Rear-Admiral Sir George Cockburn

17 June 1816 to 4 July 1817: Rear-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm

20 June 1817 to 20 July 1820: Rear-Admiral Robert Plampin

14 July 1920 to 11 September 1821: Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert

Civil

Governor: Sir Hudson Lowe

Members of Council

Sir William Doveton

Robert Leech

Thomas Brooke

Thomas Greentree

Sir George Bingham

Commissioners

Arrived June 1816

Austrian: Barthelémy Baron de Sturmer (left 11 July 1818)

French: Claude Marquis de Montchenu (left 29 July 1821)

Russian: Alexandre Comte de Balmain (left 3 May 1820)

 

 

Source: Arnold Chaplin A St Helena’s Who’s Who (London 1919)