Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, third Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (died 1834)

Richard Goodwin Keats

Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator

Admiral of the Blue Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, GCB was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He retired in 1812 due to ill health and was made Commodore-Governor of…

List of governors of Newfoundland and Labrador

The following is a list of governors, commodore-governors, and lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Newfoundland and Labrador came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in…