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After 1763 Tobago was converted to a plantation economy by British settlers and enslaved Africans. Tobago came under French control in 1781 during the Anglo-French War, returned to British control in 1793 during the War of the First Coalition, but was returned to France in 1802. The island was recaptured by the British in 1803, and remained ...
Tobago was named Belaforme by Christopher Columbus "because from a distance it seemed beautiful". The Spanish friar Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa wrote that the Kalina (mainland Caribs) called the island Urupina because of its resemblance to a big snail, [4]: 84–85 while the Kalinago (Island Caribs) called it Aloubaéra, supposedly because it resembled the alloüebéra, a giant snake which ...
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Alexander Brown (Lt Governor of Tobago) – 12 November 1764 – July 1766; William Hill – 2 December 1766 – 16 October 1767; Roderick Gwynne – 16 October 1767 – 1769; Robert William Stewart – 1769–1771; William Young (Lt. Governor of Tobago) of Auchenskeoch Castle (Scotland) – 1771–1777; Peter Campbell (Lt Governor of Tobago ...
The history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Indigenous First Peoples. Trinidad was visited by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498, (he never landed in Tobago), and claimed in the name of Spain. Trinidad was administered by Spanish hands until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists.
Sir Solomon Hochoy TC GCMG GCVO OBE (20 April 1905 – 15 November 1983) was the last colonial governor of Trinidad and Tobago and the first governor-general upon the country's independence in 1962. He was the first non-European governor of a British crown colony and the first ethnically Han Chinese and nationally Caribbean person to become ...
Henry Iles Woodcock was Chief Justice of Tobago [1] ... until 1867. [3] Iles wrote a history of Tobago, published in 1867. ... Wikipedia® is a registered trademark ...
By 1899, Biggart owned the only pharmacy in the Windward district of Tobago, and was the only pharmacist in Tobago who had completed training in practical and theoretical chemistry at the government laboratory in Trinidad. [2]: 128–130 In 1889, Tobago was united with Trinidad under a single administrative unit under the Governor of Trinidad.