List of heads of state of Barbados

The succession to the Barbadian throne was the same as the succession to the British throne.

No.	Monarch (Birth–Death)	Portrait	Reign			Royal House	Prime Minister
			Reign start	Reign end	Duration
1	Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022)		30 November 1966	30 November 2021	55 years	Windsor	Barrow Adams St. John Barrow Sandiford Arthur Thompson Stuart Mottley

Under the Constitution of Barbados, before its amendment in 2021, the governor-general was the viceregal representative of the monarch in Barbados and exercised most of the powers of the monarch. The governor-general was appointed for an indefinite term, serving at the pleasure of the monarch. Since Barbados was granted independence by the Barbados Independence Act 1966, rather than being first established as a semi-autonomous Dominion and later promoted to independence by the Statute of Westminster 1931, the governor-general had always been appointed solely on the advice of the Cabinet of Barbados, without the involvement of the British government, with the sole exception of John Montague Stow, the last colonial governor, who served as governor-general temporarily until he was replaced by Sir Arleigh Winston Scott. In the event of a vacancy the chief justice served as administrator of the government.

Status

No.	Portrait	Governor-General (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Prime Minister	Monarch
			Took office	Left office	Tenure
1		Sir John Montague Stow (1911–1997)	30 November 1966	18 May 1967	169 days	Barrow	Elizabeth II (1966–2021)
2		Sir Arleigh Winston Scott (1900–1976)	18 May 1967	9 August 1976 (Died in office)	9 years, 83 days	Barrow
–		Sir William Randolph Douglas (1921–2003)	9 August 1976	17 November 1976	100 days	Barrow Adams
3		Sir Deighton Lisle Ward (1909–1984)	17 November 1976	9 January 1984 (Died in office)	7 years, 53 days	Adams
–		Sir William Randolph Douglas (1921–2003)	9 January 1984	24 February 1984	46 days	Adams
4		Sir Hugh Springer (1913–1994)	24 February 1984	6 June 1990	6 years, 102 days	Adams St. John Barrow Sandiford
5		Dame Nita Barrow (1916–1995)	6 June 1990	19 December 1995 (Died in office)	5 years, 196 days	Sandiford Arthur
–		Sir Denys Williams (1929–2014)	19 December 1995	1 June 1996	165 days	Arthur
6		Sir Clifford Husbands (1926–2017)	1 June 1996	31 October 2011	15 years, 152 days	Arthur Thompson Stuart
–[a]		Sir Elliott Belgrave (born 1931)	1 November 2011	30 May 2012	211 days	Stuart
–[a]		Dame Sandra Mason (born 1949)	30 May 2012	1 June 2012	2 days	Stuart
7		Sir Elliott Belgrave (born 1931)	1 June 2012	30 June 2017	5 years, 29 days	Stuart
–[b]		Sir Philip Greaves (born 1931)	1 July 2017	8 January 2018	191 days	Stuart
8		Dame Sandra Mason (born 1949)	8 January 2018	30 November 2021	3 years, 326 days	Stuart Mottley

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