List of Speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas

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The first Speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas was appointed in 1729 following the establishment of the General Assembly. The first Speaker was John Colebrooke.[1]

List of speakers

Name Entered Office
John Colebrooke29 September 1729
James Scott21 August 1734
Florentius Cox1743
John Mackintosh23 February 1749
James Stowe9 November 1750
Samuel Green9 January 1753
Charles Marshall27 August 1753
Esward Stiles1760
Daniel Larouch11 February 1760
James Gould18 March 1862
Ebenezer Love8 July 1766
Robert Sterling1 December 1766
George Fraser10 November 1768
Robert Sterling13 December 1768
Nicholas Garner7 April 1772
Parr Ross17 December 1776
Nicholas Garner12 February 1782
John Boyd20 April 1784
Thomas Roker1 February 1785
John Kelsall19 September 1794
Thomas Roker6 October 1795
Archibald Campbell7 November 1797
Alexander Campbell Wylly30 October 1798
James Webster17 November 1800
Alexander Campbell Wylly6 October 1801
James Webster16 March 1802
William Kerr22 October 1811
Alexander Young3 November 1812
James Webster3 November 1813
Lewis Kerr5 November 1816
Thomas Browne Wylly10 December 1828
George Campbell Anderson31 May 1831
John Gray Meadows6 June 1838
George Campbell Anderson6 June 1839
Bruce Lockhart Burnside6 November 1866
George Campbell Anderson14 February 1867
Ormond Drimmie Malcolm24 June 1868
Robert Henry Sawyer15 December 1897
Francis Abraham Holmes30 May 1898
Harcourt Malcolm2 February 1914
William Christopher Barnett Johnson29 December 1936
Audrey Kenneth Solomon1 September 1942
Asa Hubert Pritchard4 November 1946
Robert Hallam Symonette6 December 1962
Alvin Rudolph Braynen9 February 1967
Arlington Butler18 October 1972
Clifford Darling20 October 1977
Milo Butler Jr.14 November 1991
Vernon Symonette2 September 1992
Rome Italia Johnson9 April 1997
Oswald Ingraham22 May 2002
Alvin Smith23 May 2007
Kendal Major23 May 2012
Source: Hart (1729–2002 period)

References

  1. Dwight C. Hart (2004) The Bahamian Parliament, 1729-2004: Commemorating the 275th anniversary, Jones Publishing, p118
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