List of governors of Plymouth

Not to be confused with List of governors of Plymouth Colony.

Plymouth Citadel from below
Admiralty House, Mount Wise, Plymouth, built in 1789–93, originally known as Government House, to serve as the home of the military Governor of Plymouth, at the height of fears of a French invasion following the French Revolution (1789)

The Governor of Plymouth was the military Captain or Governor of the Fortress of Plymouth.[1] The Governorship was abolished in 1842. The Lieutenant Governorship was vested in the General Officer Commanding Western District from 1793 to 1903, and in the Officer Commanding Plymouth Garrison from 1903 until that post was abolished.

  1. ^ "Stuart Expeditions". British Empire. Retrieved 13 December 2015.