Archives of Maryland Historical List Governors of Maryland, 1689-1715

Governors under Royal Government, 1689-1715

John Coode, 1689-1690

Leader of the Protestant Associators who seized the government on August 1, 1689.

Nehemiah Blakiston, 1691-1692

Appointed president of the Committee for the Government of Maryland when Coode went to England.

Sir Lionel Copley, 1692-1693

Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1693, 1694

Elected governor after the death of Copley, but had served only a week or two when Sir Edmund Andros arrived in Maryland to assume control of the government.

Sir Edmund Andros, 1693

Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, 1693-1694

Sir Edmund Andros, 1694

Remained in Maryland about a week.

Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1694

Appointed president of the council by Andros.

Francis Nicholson, 1694-1698/99

Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston, 1698/99-1702

Thomas Tench, 1702-1704

Appointed president of the council by Blackiston.

Colonel John Seymour, 1704-1709

Major General Edward Lloyd, 1709-1714

Elected president of the council when Colonel Francis Jenkins, who was senior member of the council and thus entitled to succeed Seymour, failed to assert his right promptly.

John Hart, 1714-1715