Governor

Governor was the title given to a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state; furthermore the title applied to officials with a similar mandate as representatives of a chartered company which had been granted exercise of sovereignty, even with its own armed forces, in a colonial area. In federations a governor or govenors were the appointed or elected politician who governed a constitutive state.

Weatherby Swann was appointed by the King of England to the position of Governor of Port Royal, Jamaica.