Plymouth Citadel from belowAdmiralty House, Mount Wise, Plymouth, built in 1789–93, originally known as Government House, to serve as the home of the military Governor of Plymouth, at the height of fears of a French invasion following the French Revolution (1789)
The Governor of Plymouth was the military Captain or Governor of the Fortress of Plymouth.[1] The Governorship was abolished in 1842. The Lieutenant Governorship was vested in the General Officer Commanding Western District from 1793 to 1903, and in the Officer Commanding Plymouth Garrison from 1903 until that post was abolished.
1644 (?): Col. William II Gould (1615-1644)[2] of Floyer Hayes, Exeter, after whose tenure "Mount Gold" in Plymouth is named.[3] He was buried at St Andrew's, Plymouth.
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^No date given for governorship in Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.344-6, pedigree of Floyer of Floyer Hayes, p.422
^Bromley, Janet (2012). Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Pen & Sword. p. 510. ISBN 978-1848846753.
^"Pack, Sir Denis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21067. Retrieved 12 December 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)