The Governor of Fort William was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison at Fort William in Inverness-shire. The office became a sinecure and was abolished in 1833.
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Governors of Fort William
1691: Colonel Hill
1725: Charles Sibourg
1733: George Wade (also Governor of Fort George and Fort Augustus)
1743: Humphrey Bland
1752: Richard Onslow
1759: William Kingsley
1769: John Burgoyne
1779: John Vaughan
1780: James Murray
1794: William Harcourt
1795: Edmund Stevens
Lieutenant-Governors of Fort William
... Campbell
1752: John Leighton
1764–1804: James Forbes, 16th Lord Forbes
1804–1812: Donald Macdonald
1812: Sir James Kempt