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Field</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Government_House_(Nova_Scotia)" title="Government House (Nova Scotia)">Government House (Nova Scotia)</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_New_Hampshire" title="List of colonial governors of New Hampshire">Governor of the Province of New Hampshire</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1767–1775</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Benning_Wentworth" title="Benning Wentworth">Benning Wentworth</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Meshech_Weare" title="Meshech Weare">Meshech Weare</a> (as <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">Governor of New Hampshire</a>)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Nova_Scotia" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Nova Scotia">Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Nova Scotia</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1792–1808</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_III" title="George III">George III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Parr_(governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Parr (governor)">John Parr</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Pr%C3%A9vost" class="mw-redirect" title="George Prévost">George Prévost</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">9 August 1737<br /><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_New_Hampshire" title="Portsmouth, New Hampshire">Portsmouth, New Hampshire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">8 April 1820<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend dday deathdate">1820-04-09</span>)</span> (aged 82)<br /><a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Frances Atkinson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_1st_Baronet_signature.svg/128px-Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_1st_Baronet_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_1st_Baronet_signature.svg/192px-Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_1st_Baronet_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_1st_Baronet_signature.svg/256px-Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_1st_Baronet_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="585" data-file-height="138" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet</b> (9 August 1737 – 8 April 1820) was the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a> colonial governor of <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> at the time of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>. He was later also Lieutenant-Governor of <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>. He is buried in the <a href="/wiki/Crypt" title="Crypt">crypt</a> of <a href="/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Church_(Halifax,_Nova_Scotia)" title="St. Paul's Church (Halifax, Nova Scotia)">St. Paul's Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" title="Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Governor_John_Wentworth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Governor_John_Wentworth.jpg/250px-Governor_John_Wentworth.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Governor_John_Wentworth.jpg/330px-Governor_John_Wentworth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Governor_John_Wentworth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="485" /></a><figcaption>Wentworth by <a href="/wiki/John_Singleton_Copley" title="John Singleton Copley">John Singleton Copley</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Wentworth was born in <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_New_Hampshire" title="Portsmouth, New Hampshire">Portsmouth, New Hampshire</a>, on 9 August 1737.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His ancestry went back to some of the earliest settlers of the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_Hampshire" title="Province of New Hampshire">Province of New Hampshire</a>, and he was a grandson of <a href="/wiki/John_Wentworth_(lieutenant_governor,_born_1671)" title="John Wentworth (lieutenant governor, born 1671)">John Wentworth</a>, who served as the province's lieutenant governor in the 1720s, a nephew to Governor <a href="/wiki/Benning_Wentworth" title="Benning Wentworth">Benning Wentworth</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a descendant of "Elder" <a href="/wiki/William_Wentworth_(elder)" title="William Wentworth (elder)">William Wentworth</a>. His father Mark was a major landowner and merchant in the province, and his mother, Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth, was also from the upper echelons of New Hampshire society.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1751, he enrolled in <a href="/wiki/Harvard_College" title="Harvard College">Harvard College</a>, receiving a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> in 1755 and a <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a> in 1758.<sup id="cite_ref-DCB_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DCB-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time at Harvard, he was a classmate and became a close friend of future Founding Father and President of the United States <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1759, the young Wentworth made his first significant investment, joining a partnership in the purchase and development of land in the <a href="/wiki/Lake_Winnipesaukee" title="Lake Winnipesaukee">Lake Winnipesaukee</a> area. Wentworth sat on a committee of partners that oversaw the settlement of the community, which the investors named <a href="/wiki/Wolfeboro,_New_Hampshire" title="Wolfeboro, New Hampshire">Wolfeboro</a>. In 1763, his father sent him to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> to act on behalf of his merchant interests. Based on his father's introductions, he was soon mingling with the upper levels of British society. Among the connections he made was one with the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">Marquess of Rockingham</a>, a distant relative (although neither was apparently aware of this) and a leading <a href="/wiki/British_Whig_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="British Whig Party">Whig</a> politician. In 1765, Wentworth, still in London, was appointed by the province as one of its agents. That same year Rockingham became Prime Minister and led the repeal of the hated <a href="/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a>. Whether Wentworth influenced Rockingham's decision is uncertain, but New Hampshire's other agent, Barlow Trecothick, drafted with Rockingham a position paper on the matter, and Wentworth was clearly sympathetic to colonial opposition to the Stamp Act.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Wentworth's uncle Benning had spent many years of his governorship lining his pockets by <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_grants" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hampshire grants">selling land grants</a> to the west of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_River" title="Connecticut River">Connecticut River</a>, territory to which the province held dubious claim. In 1764, the Lords of Trade ruled that New Hampshire's western border was at the Connecticut River, decisively awarding the territory (the future state of <a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>) to the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">Province of New York</a>. The governor, however, refused to resign, leading the Lords of Trade to consider his recall. Wentworth interceded, and convinced them to allow his uncle the dignity of resigning in his nephew's favor.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In August 1766, he was commissioned as Governor and vice admiral of New Hampshire, and Surveyor General of the King's Woods in North America. Before he returned to North America he was awarded a Doctorate of Common Law by <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>. After a difficult crossing he arrived at <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a> in March 1767, where he proceeded to make the first major survey of the forests of Georgia and the Carolinas on behalf of the crown.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then made his way north overland, and was received in Portsmouth with pomp and ceremony on 13 June 1767.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governor_of_New_Hampshire">Governor of New Hampshire</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Governor of New Hampshire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under Wentworth's administration the growing province was divided into five counties to distribute administration and judicial functions to communities remote from Portsmouth. Wentworth was responsible for naming them, choosing names of current British leaders (including <a href="/wiki/Rockingham_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Rockingham County, New Hampshire">Rockingham</a>), but also named <a href="/wiki/Strafford_County,_New_Hampshire" title="Strafford County, New Hampshire">Strafford County</a> after one of his distant relatives, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford" title="Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford">Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wentworth_Gov_Sir_John.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Wentworth_Gov_Sir_John.JPG/220px-Wentworth_Gov_Sir_John.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Wentworth_Gov_Sir_John.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="263" data-file-height="192" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Mark_Wentworth_House" title="Mark Wentworth House">Wentworth House</a> was built by Mark Hunking Wentworth, and occupied by his son, Gov. John Wentworth, until he left New Hampshire after a cannon was pointed at the front door by revolutionaries<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>He also began the process of developing roads between the major population centers of the province, which had grown around the coast and the <a href="/wiki/Merrimack_River" title="Merrimack River">Merrimack</a> and Connecticut Rivers. Although the provincial assembly was reluctant to fund new roads, Wentworth used <a href="/wiki/Quitrent" class="mw-redirect" title="Quitrent">quitrents</a> collected on recently issued land grants to pay for the work. In 1771, he reported having constructed more than 200 miles (320 km) of roads at a cost of £500. The same year he convinced the assembly to appropriate £100 for surveyor <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Holland_(surveyor)" title="Samuel Holland (surveyor)">Samuel Holland</a> to produce the first detailed high quality map of the province. </p><p>Wentworth was ironically responsible for significant improvements to the provincial militia organization. When he arrived, the militia consisted of about 10,000 men, who were by his report "badly accoutred and scarcely at all disciplined". He expanded the militia, adding 1,600 men and three regiments to the force, and regularly attended regimental reviews. </p><p>Although Wentworth was successful in keeping New Hampshire from implementing harsh boycotts in response to the <a href="/wiki/Townshend_Acts" title="Townshend Acts">Townshend Acts</a>, he was clearly troubled by both colonial resistance to Parliamentary acts and by the introduction of troops into <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> in 1768. He wrote to Rockingham that the troop movement was likely to be problematic, and that government and other reforms were more likely to succeed. New Hampshire businessmen were eventually pressured into adopting a boycott of British goods when Massachusetts businessmen threatened to suspend trade with them. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" title="Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a> in late 1773 further inflamed tensions in New England, Wentworth successfully defused the threat of similar action in Portsmouth. After issuing careful instructions to the master of a ship arriving with a consignment of tea, Wentworth departed Portsmouth for <a href="/wiki/Dover,_New_Hampshire" title="Dover, New Hampshire">Dover</a>. During his absence the tea was landed and stored in the Portsmouth customs house. This removed the possibility of the tea being dumped as it had been in Boston, but the townspeople were still opposed to its presence. A committee of Portsmouth merchants negotiated its safe passage to <a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a>, and the tea was safely transported through the town and reembarked on a ship. </p><p>Wentworth's popularity in the province began to fall as tensions continued to rise in neighboring Massachusetts. When the Boston port was <a href="/wiki/Boston_Port_Act" title="Boston Port Act">closed</a> as punishment for the Tea Party, Massachusetts Governor <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gage" title="Thomas Gage">Thomas Gage</a> found it increasingly difficult to find workers willing to support the military (despite rampant unemployment caused by the port closure). He therefore asked Wentworth to assist in the procurement of carpenters in New Hampshire to build barracks for the troops. When his secretive methods to do so were exposed and publicized, local revolutionary committees denounced him as an "enemy to the community".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although he intuited that the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Paul_Revere" title="Paul Revere">Paul Revere</a> on 13 December 1774, was likely to cause trouble, he was unable to prevent the local militia, now effectively under control of the revolutionary committees, from marching on Fort William and Mary the next day and seizing the provincial armaments and gunpowder. Wentworth had warned the garrison before the event, and called for naval support afterward, but it arrived too late to be of use. </p><p>He eventually asked for further reinforcements but received none, and realized that any attempt to arrest the ringleaders of the rebellion would likely result in an uprising. He organized a small force of trusted men to act as guards of his person and property, and during early 1775 pressure on the province's <a href="/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)" title="Loyalist (American Revolution)">Loyalists</a> was prompting some of them to flee to the safety of the British Army presence in Boston. Despite the opening of hostilities with the <a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord" title="Battles of Lexington and Concord">Battles of Lexington and Concord</a> on 19 April (after which numerous New Hampshire militia went south to join the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Siege of Boston</a>), Wentworth convened the provincial assembly in late May. Composed primarily of rebel sympathizers, it refused to consider the <a href="/wiki/Conciliatory_Resolution" title="Conciliatory Resolution">Conciliatory Resolution</a> proposed by Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">Lord North</a> to defuse the crisis. Wentworth therefore prorogued the assembly, hoping that a delay would favorably change the atmosphere. It did not; on 30 May, rebel militia began occupying and fortifying Portsmouth. Captain Andrew Barclay of <i>HMS Scarborough</i> further exacerbated tensions by <a href="/wiki/Impressment" title="Impressment">impressing</a> local fishermen and seizing supplies for use by the troops in Boston. Wentworth managed to defuse the situation by convincing Barclay to release the fishermen. </p><p>On 13 June 1775, after his house was surrounded by a mob of armed men seeking to arrest a Loyalist militia officer, Wentworth and his family fled to Fort William and Mary, which was under the guns of the <i>Scarborough</i>. Conditions continued to deteriorate, and Wentworth boarded the <i>Scarborough</i> and sailed for Boston on 23 August. After sending his family to England, he remained in the city until it was evacuated to Halifax in March 1776. He remained with the fleet until <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> was captured in September 1776, and finally sailed to England in early 1778. The New Hampshire government established after his departure seized most of his property, but specially reserved to the family portraits and furniture from the Portsmouth mansion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Surveyor_General_of_the_King's_Woods"><span id="Surveyor_General_of_the_King.27s_Woods"></span>Surveyor General of the King's Woods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Surveyor General of the King's Woods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wentworth had hopes of being appointed Governor of Nova Scotia, replacing <a href="/wiki/Francis_Legge" title="Francis Legge">Francis Legge</a>. In March 1782, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">Lord North's</a> ministry fell and the King called on Rockingham and the <a href="/wiki/William_Petty,_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne" title="William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne">Earl of Shelburne</a> to form a new government and negotiate peace with the US Congress. Rockingham had in fact promised him the position and presented him to the King, who thanked Wentworth for his efforts to preserve royal government in New Hampshire. However, three months later Rockingham died, and Shelburne was free to appoint his own supporters, so the governorship went to <a href="/wiki/John_Parr_(governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Parr (governor)">John Parr</a>. Worse yet, Wentworth's office of Surveyor General of the King's Woods was eliminated as an economy measure.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was the low point of Wentworth's fortunes. All he could look forward to, like most Loyalists, was compensation for his losses in the former colonies and a small pension. However, Shelburne's ministry fell in April 1783, and the <a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish-Bentinck,_3rd_Duke_of_Portland" title="William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland">Duke of Portland</a>, one of Rockingham's former supporters, became the new minister of the treasury. Wentworth lobbied successfully to have his surveyor-generalship restored, and he returned to Halifax in the summer of that year. His wife, Frances, followed him in 1784. </p><p>The office of Surveyor General of the King's Woods had been regarded as a <a href="/wiki/Sinecure" title="Sinecure">sinecure</a> by most of its previous holders, but Wentworth took the job very seriously. The government had seen the forests of North America as an inexhaustible resource of timber for the construction of ships, buildings, wharves, and other purposes. But Wentworth was far-sighted enough to see that the pressure of human settlement was literally chipping away at the old-growth forests. In particular he was aware of the enormous demand by the Royal Navy for mast timber, the tall, straight pines that were suitable for masts, booms, and other rigging on sailing ships. And given that Britain had just lost about half of its forest lands in North America, he was determined that, for the defense of the realm, the remainder of the choice trees would be protected. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>For the next seven years Wentworth travelled through the woods of eastern British North America, displaying endurance and courage that were remarkable for a man who in 1783 was forty-six years old. He could truthfully declare that his journeys were so physically demanding he could never find any man who could stay with him through a whole trip. The timber reservations John Wentworth made between 1783 and 1791 not only provided the Royal Navy at a critical time with the masts to defeat Napoleon, but also laid the basis of future <a href="/wiki/Crown_land" title="Crown land">crown land</a> policies in what is now Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Upon his return from his travels to Halifax in Dec. 1786, he received a letter from <a href="/wiki/James_Monk" title="James Monk">James Monk</a> assuring him that he would soon be appointed lieutenant-governor of either Nova Scotia or <a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick,_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="New Brunswick, Canada">New Brunswick</a>. In the end, after a complicated series of appointments and reassignments, Wentworth was left the odd man out.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Frances_Wentworth_and_Prince_William">Frances Wentworth and Prince William</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Frances Wentworth and Prince William"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr._(Frances_Deering_Wentworth).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr._%28Frances_Deering_Wentworth%29.jpg/250px-Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr._%28Frances_Deering_Wentworth%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr._%28Frances_Deering_Wentworth%29.jpg/330px-Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr._%28Frances_Deering_Wentworth%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr._%28Frances_Deering_Wentworth%29.jpg/500px-Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr._%28Frances_Deering_Wentworth%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="861" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr." title="Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr.">Frances Wentworth</a>, by John Singleton Copley, 1765. At the time of this painting, she was Mrs. Theodore Atkinson.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_Mrs._Theodore_Atkinson_Jr." title="Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr.">Frances Wentworth</a> had been unhappy since her arrival in Nova Scotia. As ambitious as her husband, she took his and her misfortunes very hard. She also missed the sophisticated lifestyle she had enjoyed in England, missed her son who was being schooled in England, and was distressed by John's long absences.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/William_IV" title="William IV">Prince William Henry</a>, the third son of King <a href="/wiki/George_III" title="George III">George III</a>, made his first visit to Halifax in late 1786, while John Wentworth was away in <a href="/wiki/Cape_Breton_Island" title="Cape Breton Island">Cape Breton</a>. The Prince, later known as the "Sailor King", was at that time in command of <a href="/wiki/HMS_Pegasus_(1779)" title="HMS Pegasus (1779)">HMS <i>Pegasus</i></a>, and was already known as a hard drinker and womanizer, much to the distress of his royal father. Frances arranged to be introduced to Prince William. At the age of forty-one (the Prince was twenty-one), she was widely considered to be still quite beautiful, dressed at the height of fashion, and retained the sophistication she had gained in England. It is widely believed that shortly after this she became Prince William's mistress.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The affair was renewed when the Prince made a second visit to Halifax in the following year. </p><p>John learned of the affair, but did not raise any public scandal; Frances described him in a letter as the "most diffident of men." A scandal would not have furthered the interests of either of them. Nevertheless, he made his displeasure known to the King, most likely via the Prince's superior officer, Admiral <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Sawyer_(1730%E2%80%931798)" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Sawyer (1730–1798)">Herbert Sawyer</a>. Prince William soon departed for Québec.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lieutenant_Governor_of_Nova_Scotia">Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Government_House_NS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Government_House_NS.jpg/250px-Government_House_NS.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Government_House_NS.jpg/330px-Government_House_NS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Government_House_NS.jpg/440px-Government_House_NS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="292" /></a><figcaption>Government House as it appeared during the residence of the Wentworths.</figcaption></figure><p>The Wentworths sailed to England in the early summer of 1791, to try to sort out their deepening financial disorders. While there, news came that Lt. Gov. Parr had died. The couple immediately began lobbying for John to get the vacated post, and while his position appeared weak, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Dundas,_1st_Viscount_Melville" title="Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville">Henry Dundas</a> decided in his favor based on his experience.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wentworth became the first civilian governor of Nova Scotia. </p><p>During the previous decade hostility between the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Planters" title="New England Planters">Planters</a> and the newly arrived Loyalists nearly crippled the government. As well, the cost of settling the Loyalists had plunged the colony into debt. As a Loyalist himself, Wentworth favored them for higher offices, while being more even-handed with the distribution of lower offices. This began a Loyalist ascendancy that continued well into the 19th century. He stabilized the colony's finances by introducing an <a href="/wiki/Excise" title="Excise">excise duty</a> on all imports; by the end of 1793 even some of the principal of the debt had been paid off.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 1793, news arrived that war had broken out between Britain and <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">revolutionary France</a>. All but 200 men of the colony's garrison were sent to the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">West Indies</a>, and Wentworth was instructed to call out the <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> and to begin recruiting a provincial regiment of 600 men (later 800) for home defence, of which he was to be colonel. He set about the task with vigour, in spite of having no military experience. Despite difficulties, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_nova_scotia_regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal nova scotia regiment">Royal Nova Scotia Regiment</a> was brought up to a useful strength within a year and served until disbanded with the coming of peace in 1802.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1794, another royal prince arrived at Halifax, the fourth son of the King, <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward,_Duke_of_Kent_and_Strathearn" title="Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn">Prince Edward, Duke of Kent</a>, along with his mistress, <a href="/wiki/Madame_de_Saint-Laurent" title="Madame de Saint-Laurent">Julie, Madame de Saint-Laurent</a>. Edward had been appointed C-in-C of the King's forces in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Wentworth was pleased by this, as he had quarreled with the previous commander, Maj. Gen. Ogilvie. The Wentworths were also pleased to welcome Julie, which gratified the Prince, as she had been shunned by society in Québec, where he had been previously posted.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two couples formed a lasting friendship, which led to Wentworth offering the Prince the use of his small estate outside of town, which is today known as <a href="/wiki/Princes_Lodge,_Nova_Scotia" class="mw-redirect" title="Princes Lodge, Nova Scotia">Princes Lodge</a>. On a more practical level, Prince Edward's influence brought funding for the <a href="/wiki/Citadel_Hill_(Fort_George)" title="Citadel Hill (Fort George)">fortifications of Halifax</a> and much of the rest of the colony. He also gifted Halifax with its <a href="/wiki/Halifax_Town_Clock" title="Halifax Town Clock">Town Clock</a>, which he helped to design. The influx of government funding for the war effort led to prosperity throughout Nova Scotia. <a href="/wiki/Simeon_Perkins" title="Simeon Perkins">Simeon Perkins</a> of <a href="/wiki/Liverpool,_Nova_Scotia" title="Liverpool, Nova Scotia">Liverpool</a> outfitted a privateer ship named after Wentworth's son, the <i><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mary_Wentworth_(1798_ship)" title="Charles Mary Wentworth (1798 ship)">Charles Mary Wentworth</a></i>, which netted 19,000 pounds sterling on her second cruise.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Wentworths had been displeased with the state of their residence since John had come to the office. The building (on the site now occupied by <a href="/wiki/Province_House_(Nova_Scotia)" title="Province House (Nova Scotia)">Province House</a>) was a wood-frame construction built in 1758. Nearly 40 years later it was generally run-down and not large enough for major occasions. Beginning in 1796, Wentworth obtained funding from the Legislature for an entirely new building, built of stone, which would be both a residence and a public space, a few blocks to the southwest. <a href="/wiki/Government_House_(Nova_Scotia)" title="Government House (Nova Scotia)">Government House</a>, as it became known, eventually went three times over its initial budget, and the Wentworths did not finally move in until 1805, when the interior was still not finished.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This residence still serves as home to Nova Scotia's Lieutenant Governors today. </p><p>Wentworth also improved and expanded roads, increased support to Nova Scotia's poverty stricken <a href="/wiki/Mi%27kmaq_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Mi'kmaq people">Mi'kmaq people</a> and set up the first rescue station on <a href="/wiki/Sable_Island" title="Sable Island">Sable Island</a>. A less successful and costly initiative was a settlement of <a href="/wiki/Maroon_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maroon (people)">Maroons</a> from <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> who were instead resettled in <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a>. Wentworth initially enjoyed good relations with the legislature but in later years fell into an escalating confrontation with the informal leader of the country party, <a href="/wiki/William_Cottnam_Tonge" title="William Cottnam Tonge">William Cottnam Tonge</a>. The conflict, largely over which branch of government should allocate funds for road-building, grew into a constitutional struggle between the governor-in-council and the House of Assembly, controlled by Tonge. Wentworth assisted and drew support from powerful Halifax merchants but lost support elsewhere. With the war with France renewed in 1803 and conflict with the United States intensifying, London abruptly replaced Wentworth in 1808 with a military governor, General <a href="/wiki/George_Prevost" title="George Prevost">George Prevost</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DCB_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DCB-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wentworth was knighted and awarded a <a href="/wiki/Wentworth_baronets" title="Wentworth baronets">baronetcy</a> in 1795,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms, London, England, 16 May 1795.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also served as Grand Master of the Free Masons. He retired as governor of Nova Scotia in 1808 on a pension of 6500 dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-Morgan_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morgan-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_legacy">Family and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Family and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_John_Wentworth,_St._Paul%27s_Church,_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_St._Paul%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg/250px-Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_St._Paul%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_St._Paul%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg/330px-Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_St._Paul%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_St._Paul%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg/500px-Sir_John_Wentworth%2C_St._Paul%27s_Church%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="959" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Sir John Wentworth, <a href="/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Church_(Halifax)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Paul's Church (Halifax)">St. Paul's Church (Halifax)</a>, Nova Scotia</figcaption></figure> <p>John Wentworth and Frances Deering Wentworth were cousins.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frances had first married Theodore Atkinson, Junior, Secretary of the Colony of New Hampshire, who died at Portsmouth, 28 October 1769. John and Frances married two weeks later. Her name is preserved in the towns of <a href="/wiki/Francestown,_New_Hampshire" title="Francestown, New Hampshire">Francestown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deering,_New_Hampshire" title="Deering, New Hampshire">Deering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wentworth,_New_Hampshire" title="Wentworth, New Hampshire">Wentworth</a>. John's name is preserved in the community of <a href="/wiki/Wentworth,_Nova_Scotia" title="Wentworth, Nova Scotia">Wentworth</a> and the surrounding area. The couple had one son, Charles Mary Wentworth, who succeeded to the baronetcy.<sup id="cite_ref-Morgan_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morgan-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The son, who served as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Nova_Scotia" title="Legislative Council of Nova Scotia">Legislative Council</a> in Nova Scotia, died without issue in 1844, extinguishing the baronetcy.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Frances died at <a href="/wiki/Sunninghill,_Berkshire" title="Sunninghill, Berkshire">Sunninghill, Berkshire</a>, England, 14 February 1813, aged 68 and buried at <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Church,_Piccadilly" title="St James's Church, Piccadilly">St. James Churchyard</a> in <a href="/wiki/Piccadilly" title="Piccadilly">Piccadilly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greater_London" title="Greater London">Greater London</a>, England. John died at <a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a>, on 8 April 1820, aged 84. He was buried in <a href="/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Church_(Halifax)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Paul's Church (Halifax)">St. Paul's Church</a>, where a tablet exists to his memory. </p><p>Government House remains the official residence of Nova Scotia's Lieutenant-Governors.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Governor's Lady</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_H._Raddall" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas H. Raddall">Thomas H. Raddall</a>, is a novel based on the lives of John and Frances Wentworth. </p><p>Lieutenant Governor Wentworth employed a number of Maroons on his farm and in his household, as well as a few at Government House. Wentworth kept a Maroon mistress. They had at least one child, George Wentworth Colley (1804–1893). Wentworth's farm was located near the foot of Long Lake. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_New_Hampshire_historical_markers_(51%E2%80%9375)#53" title="List of New Hampshire historical markers (51–75)">New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 53</a>: Wentworth Estate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_New_Hampshire_historical_markers_(101%E2%80%93125)#116" title="List of New Hampshire historical markers (101–125)">New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 116</a>: College Road</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_New_Hampshire_historical_markers_(101%E2%80%93125)#123" title="List of New Hampshire historical markers (101–125)">New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 123</a>: The Governor's Road</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_New_Hampshire_historical_markers_(176%E2%80%93200)#186" title="List of New Hampshire historical markers (176–200)">New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 186</a>: Sawyer's Rock</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Route_109" title="New Hampshire Route 109">New Hampshire Route 109</a>, part of which is known as the Governor Wentworth Highway</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayo, p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayo, pp. 8–9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DCB-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DCB_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DCB_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFingard1983" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Fingard, Judith (1983). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wentworth_john_1737_1820_5E.html">"Wentworth, John"</a>. In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Canadian_Biography" title="Dictionary of Canadian Biography">Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a></i>. Vol. V (1801–1820) (online ed.). <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto_Press" title="University of Toronto Press">University of Toronto Press</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Wentworth%2C+John&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Canadian+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.aulast=Fingard&rft.aufirst=Judith&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biographi.ca%2Fen%2Fbio%2Fwentworth_john_1737_1820_5E.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+John+Wentworth%2C+1st+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayo pp. 9–12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayo, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGurney1902" class="citation book cs1">Gurney, C.S. 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Portsmouth, New Hampshire. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/portsmouthhistor00gurn/page/88">88</a>–89.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Portsmouth%2C+Historic+and+Picturesque&rft.place=Portsmouth%2C+New+Hampshire&rft.pages=88-89&rft.date=1902&rft.aulast=Gurney&rft.aufirst=C.S.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fportsmouthhistor00gurn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+John+Wentworth%2C+1st+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayo, p. 138</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, Brian C., <i>The Loyalist Governor</i>, Petheric Press, Halifax, 1983, p. 27</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, p. 32</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 40–41</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 36–37</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 41–43. The evidence for the affair is mainly from the diary of Lt. <a href="/wiki/William_Dyott" title="William Dyott">William Dyott</a>, who later became a general and aide-de-camp to King George. While in Halifax in 1787 Dyott served as an unofficial aide to the prince, as well as a companion and drinking partner. John Wentworth's biographer, Cuthbertson, as well as historian and novelist Thomas Raddall, believe the affair happened, while the Prince's biographer, Philip Ziegler, and author Philip Young, in his book <i>Revolutionary Ladies</i>, raise doubts.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, p. 43</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 50–53</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 58–59</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 62–64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 70–71</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 90–91</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, pp. 108–111</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Boileau, <i>The peaceful revolution: 250 years of democracy in Nova Scotia</i> (2008) p. 96</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Heraldic Journal</i>, p. 171</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=2234&ShowAll=1">Governor General of Canada – Public Register or Arms, Flags and Badges</a> (website – includes image of the arms) accessed 21 November 2015</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Morgan-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Morgan_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Morgan_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMorgan1903" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Henry_James_Morgan" title="Henry James Morgan">Morgan, Henry James</a>, ed. 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Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/349">349</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Types+of+Canadian+Women+and+of+Women+who+are+or+have+been+Connected+with+Canada&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pages=349&rft.pub=Williams+Briggs&rft.date=1903&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftypesofcanadianw01morguoft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+John+Wentworth%2C+1st+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cuthbertson, p 12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Heraldic Journal</i>, p. 172</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120122162322/http://lt.gov.ns.ca/government-house/the-story-of-government-house/">"The story of Government House"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 January</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+story+of+Government+House&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flt.gov.ns.ca%2Fgovernment-house%2Fthe-story-of-government-house%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+John+Wentworth%2C+1st+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Wentworth,_1st_Baronet&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMayo1921" class="citation book cs1">Mayo, Lawrence Shaw (1921). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/johnwentworthgov00mayo"><i>John Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire: 1767-1775</i></a>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1609815">1609815</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=John+Wentworth%2C+Governor+of+New+Hampshire%3A+1767-1775&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1921&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1609815&rft.aulast=Mayo&rft.aufirst=Lawrence+Shaw&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fjohnwentworthgov00mayo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+John+Wentworth%2C+1st+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCuthbertson1983" class="citation book cs1">Cuthbertson, Brian C. (1983). <i>The Loyalist Governor, Biography of Sir John Wentworth</i>. Halifax, NS: Petheric Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-919380-43-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-919380-43-3"><bdi>0-919380-43-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Loyalist+Governor%2C+Biography+of+Sir+John+Wentworth&rft.place=Halifax%2C+NS&rft.pub=Petheric+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=0-919380-43-3&rft.aulast=Cuthbertson&rft.aufirst=Brian+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+John+Wentworth%2C+1st+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWilderson1994" class="citation book cs1">Wilderson, Paul W. (1994). <i>Governor John Wentworth & the American Revolution: The English Connection</i>. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87451-656-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-87451-656-0"><bdi>0-87451-656-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Governor+John+Wentworth+%26+the+American+Revolution%3A+The+English+Connection&rft.place=Hanover%2C+NH&rft.pub=University+Press+of+New+England&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-87451-656-0&rft.aulast=Wilderson&rft.aufirst=Paul+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+John+Wentworth%2C+1st+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SXIFAAAAQAAJ&dq=parlut%20baronetcy%201795&pg=PA171"><i>The Heraldic Journal</i></a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Wentworth</a></b></i>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1764-00/Wentworth.htm">Biography in <i>BluPete's History of Nova Scotia</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://seacoastnh.com/Famous-People/Framers-of-Freedom/Governor-John-Wentworth/">Paul Wilderson, <i>"Governor John Wentworth"</i> at Seacoastnh.com</a> (A New Hampshire perspective)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/wentworthj.html">Biography at ns1763.ca</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Benning_Wentworth" title="Benning Wentworth">Benning Wentworth</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_New_Hampshire" title="List of colonial governors of New Hampshire">Governor of the Province of New Hampshire</a> </b><br />1767–1775 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>Vacant</b><div style="font-size:90%">abandoned in <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a></div><div style="font-size:90%">Title next held by</div><b><a href="/wiki/Meshech_Weare" title="Meshech Weare">Meshech Weare</a> </b><br /><small><i><b>as <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">President of the State of New Hampshire</a> </b></i></small> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Sir <a href="/wiki/Richard_Bulkeley_(office-holder)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Bulkeley (office-holder)">Richard Bulkeley</a><br />(acting)</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Nova_Scotia_lieutenant-governors" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Nova Scotia lieutenant-governors">Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia</a> </b><br />1792–1808 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Pr%C3%A9vost" class="mw-redirect" title="George Prévost">George Prévost</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ACE777;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_extant_baronetcies" title="List of extant baronetcies">Baronetage of Great Britain</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>New creation</b> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Wentworth_baronets" title="Wentworth baronets">Baronet</a> <br /> </b>(of Parlut)<b> </b><br />1795–1820 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" 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Scotia</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_Nova_Scotia" title="List of lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia">List of lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governors at Annapolis Royal (1710–1749)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Vetch" title="Samuel Vetch">Vetch</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Hobby" title="Charles Hobby">Hobby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Caulfeild" title="Thomas Caulfeild">Caulfeild</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Nicholson" title="Francis Nicholson">Nicholson</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Caulfeild" title="Thomas Caulfeild">Caulfeild</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Vetch" title="Samuel Vetch">Vetch</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Caulfeild" title="Thomas Caulfeild">Caulfeild</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Philipps" title="Richard Philipps">Philipps</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Doucett" title="John Doucett">Doucett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Armstrong" title="Lawrence Armstrong">Armstrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Cosby" title="Alexander Cosby">Cosby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mascarene" title="Paul Mascarene">Mascarene</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governors at Halifax (1749–1786)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Cornwallis" title="Edward Cornwallis">Cornwallis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peregrine_Hopson" title="Peregrine Hopson">Hopson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lawrence_(British_Army_officer)" title="Charles Lawrence (British Army officer)">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a 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Campbell</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Green_(merchant)" title="Benjamin Green (merchant)"><i>Green</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Francklin" title="Michael Francklin">Francklin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Legge" title="Francis Legge">Legge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Francklin" title="Michael Francklin">Francklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariot_Arbuthnot" title="Mariot Arbuthnot">Arbuthnot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Richard_Hughes,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet">Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Andrew_Hamond,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Andrew Hamond, 1st Baronet">Hamond</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Parr_(colonial_governor)" title="John Parr (colonial governor)">Parr</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Fanning_(colonial_administrator)" title="Edmund Fanning (colonial administrator)">Fanning</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lieutenant-governors<br />of Cape Breton Island (1784–1820)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Frederick_Wallet_DesBarres" title="Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres">Desbarres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Macarmick" title="William Macarmick">Macarmick</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/David_Mathews" title="David Mathews">Mathews</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Ogilvie_(colonial_administrator)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Ogilvie (colonial administrator) (page does not exist)">Ogilvie</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_Murray_(colonial_administrator)" title="John Murray (colonial administrator)">Murray</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/John_Despard" title="John Despard">Despard</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Nepean" title="Nicholas Nepean">Nepean</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hugh_Swayne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hugh Swayne (page does not exist)">Swayne</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Robert_Ainslie" title="George Robert Ainslie">Ainslie</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lieutenant-governors of Nova Scotia before<br />responsible government (1786–1848)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Parr_(colonial_governor)" title="John Parr (colonial governor)">Parr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bulkeley_(civil_servant)" title="Richard Bulkeley (civil servant)"><i>Bulkeley</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wentworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pr%C3%A9vost" class="mw-redirect" title="George Prévost">Prévost</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alexander_Croke" title="Alexander Croke"><i>Croke</i></a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Coape_Sherbrooke" title="John Coape Sherbrooke">Sherbrooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Stracey_Smyth" title="George Stracey Smyth"><i>Smyth</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Ramsay,_9th_Earl_of_Dalhousie" title="George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie">Dalhousie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Kempt" title="James Kempt">Kempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nickleson_Jeffery" title="Thomas Nickleson Jeffery"><i>Jeffrey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peregrine_Maitland" title="Peregrine Maitland">Maitland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nickleson_Jeffery" title="Thomas Nickleson Jeffery"><i>Jeffrey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Campbell_(British_Army_officer,_born_1776)" title="Colin Campbell (British Army officer, born 1776)">C. Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Cary,_10th_Viscount_Falkland" title="Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland">Falkland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Dickson" title="Jeremiah Dickson"><i>Dickson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Harvey_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Harvey (British Army officer)">Harvey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lieutenant-governors between responsible<br />government and Confederation (1848–1867)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Harvey_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Harvey (British Army officer)">Harvey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bazalgette" title="John Bazalgette"><i>Bazalgette</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Le_Marchant_(British_Army_officer,_born_1803)" title="John Le Marchant (British Army officer, born 1803)">Le Marchant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Phipps,_2nd_Marquess_of_Normanby" title="George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby">Phipps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Hastings_Doyle" title="Charles Hastings Doyle"><i>Doyle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Graves_MacDonnell" title="Richard Graves MacDonnell">MacDonnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Hastings_Doyle" title="Charles Hastings Doyle"><i>Doyle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenwick_Williams" title="Fenwick Williams">Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-Confederation<br />(1867–present)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fenwick_Williams" title="Fenwick Williams">Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Hastings_Doyle" title="Charles Hastings Doyle">Doyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Howe" title="Joseph Howe">Howe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adams_George_Archibald" title="Adams George Archibald">Archibald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Henry_Richey" title="Matthew Henry Richey">Richey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_McLelan" title="Archibald McLelan">McLelan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malachy_Bowes_Daly" title="Malachy Bowes Daly">Daly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Gilpin_Jones" title="Alfred Gilpin Jones">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duncan_Cameron_Fraser" title="Duncan Cameron Fraser">D. Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Drummond_McGregor" title="James Drummond McGregor">McGregor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_MacKeen" title="David MacKeen">MacKeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacCallum_Grant" title="MacCallum Grant">M. Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Robson_Douglas" title="James Robson Douglas">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cranswick_Tory" title="James Cranswick Tory">Tory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Stanfield" title="Frank Stanfield">Stanfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Harold_Covert" title="Walter Harold Covert">Covert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(Canadian_politician)" title="Robert Irwin (Canadian politician)">Irwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Francis_Mathers" title="Frederick Francis Mathers">Mathers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ernest_Kendall" title="Henry Ernest Kendall">Kendall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Alexander_Douglas_McCurdy" title="John Alexander Douglas McCurdy">McCurdy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alistair_Fraser" title="Alistair Fraser">A. Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Chester_Plow" title="Edward Chester Plow">Plow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Poole_MacKeen" title="Henry Poole MacKeen">MacKeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_de_Bedia_Oland" title="Victor de Bedia Oland">Oland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Gosse" title="Clarence Gosse">Gosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Elvin_Shaffner" title="John Elvin Shaffner">Shaffner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Abraham" title="Alan Abraham">Abraham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Crouse" title="Lloyd Crouse">Crouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Kinley" title="James Kinley">Kinley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myra_Freeman" title="Myra Freeman">Freeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayann_Francis" title="Mayann Francis">Francis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_James_Grant" title="John James Grant">J. 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