Editing History of Bermuda (section)

==Notable historical figures==

===until 1700===
* [[Henry Woodhouse (governor)|Henry Woodhouse]] (1573 in Norfolk – 1637 in Norfolk) was Governor of Bermuda between 1623 and 1627
* [[Philip Bell (governor)|Philip Bell]] (1590 in Norfolk – 1678 in Norfolk) was Governor of Bermuda from 1626 to 1629, of the Providence Island colony from 1629 to 1636, and of Barbados from 1640 to 1650 
* [[George Starkey]] (1628 in Bermuda – 1665 in London) was a Colonial American alchemist, medical practitioner, and writer of numerous commentaries and chemical treatises 
* [[John Bowen (pirate)|John Bowen]] (c.1660 in Bermuda – 1704 Mascarene Islands) was a pirate of Créole origin active during the Golden Age of Piracy
* [[Sir Charles Hotham, 4th Baronet]] (c.1663 in Bermuda – 1723) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament for Scarborough from 1695 to 1701 and for Beverley from 1702 to 1723
* [[Sybilla Righton Masters|Sybilla Masters]] (c.1676 in Bermuda – 1720) was an American inventor. Masters was the first person residing in the American colonies to be given an English patent

===1700 to 1800===
* [[St. George Tucker]] (1752 near Port Royal, Bermuda – 1827 Warminster, Virginia) was a lawyer and after the American Revolution, a professor of law at the [[College of William and Mary]]
* [[Hezekiah Frith]] (1763 in Bermuda – 1848) was a wealthy British ship owner with the reputation of a "gentleman privateer", who engaged in piracy during the 1790s. He built the Spithead House in [[Warwick, Bermuda]]
* [[John Dunscombe]] (1777 in Bermuda – 1847 in Liverpool) was a merchant and political figure in Newfoundland. He came to Newfoundland in 1808 and became a member of the Executive Council from 1833 to 1842
* [[Charles Stuart (abolitionist)|Captain Charles Stuart]] (1783 in Bermuda – 1865 in Canada) was an Anglo-Canadian abolitionist. After leaving the army, he was a writer, but was notable for his opposition to slavery.
* [[John R. Cooke]] (1788 in Bermuda – 1854) was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.

===1800 to 1900===
* [[Augustus William Harvey]] (1839 in Bermuda – 1903) was an industrialist and politician in Newfoundland. came to Newfoundland in 1853 and served in the Legislative Council of Newfoundland from 1870 to 1895 
* Ernest [[Graham Ingham]] (1851 in Bermuda – 1926) was an eminent Anglican bishop and author 
* [[Mary Ewing Outerbridge]] (1852–1886) was an American woman who imported the game of lawn tennis to the US from Bermuda
* [[John Smith (Medal of Honor, born 1854)|John Smith]] (born 1854 in Bermuda – ??) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]].
* [[Frank Percy Crozier]] CB, CMG, DSO (1879 in Bermuda – 1937 in London) was a British military officer who courted controversy
* [[Ernest Trimingham]] (1880 in Bermuda – 1942) was an actor from Bermuda. He was one of the first black actors in British cinema. 
* [[Edgar F. Gordon]] (1895 in Port of Spain, Trinidad – 1955 in Bermuda) was a physician, parliamentarian, civil rights activist and labour leader in Bermuda