Editing Lord-lieutenant (section)

==Colonial equivalents==
In the [[English overseas possessions|English colonies]], and subsequently the British Empire, the duties of a Lord-Lieutenant were generally performed by the [[Commander-in-Chief]] or the [[Governor]]. Both offices may have been occupied by the same person.

By way of an example, this is still the case in Britain's second, and oldest remaining, colony, [[Bermuda]], where the [[Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda|Royal Navy's headquarters, main base, and dockyard for the North America and West Indies Station]] was established following independence of the United States of America. The [[colony]] had raised militia and volunteer forces since official settlement in 1612 (with a troop-of-horse added later), and a small force of regular infantry from 1701 to 1783. Bermuda became an [[Imperial fortress]] (along with [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax in Nova Scotia]], [[Gibraltar]], and [[Malta]]), a large regular army garrison was built up after 1794, and the reserve forces faded away following the conclusion of the [[American War of 1812]] as the local government lost interest in paying for their upkeep. From this point until the 1960s, governors were almost exclusively senior British Army officers (particularly from the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers) who were also military Commanders-in-Chief (and initially also Vice-Admirals) of the regular military forces stationed in the colony and not simply the reserves. Attempts to rekindle the militia without a Militia Act or funds from the colonial government were made throughout the century under the authorisation of the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, but none proved lasting. The colonial government was finally compelled to raise militia and volunteer forces (the [[Bermuda Militia Artillery]] and the [[Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps]]) by Act in the 1890s (the [[Bermuda Cadet Corps]], [[Bermuda Volunteer Engineers]], and [[Bermuda Militia Infantry]] were added at later dates), and these fell under the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, as well as under operational control of his junior, the [[brigadier]] in charge of the Bermuda Command (or [[Bermuda Garrison]]), which included the regular as well as the part-time military (as opposed to naval) forces in the colony. Although the Royal Naval and the regular army establishments have been withdrawn from Bermuda, the [[Governor of Bermuda]] remains the Commander-in-Chief (though most recent office holders have not been career army officers) of the [[Royal Bermuda Regiment]] (a 1965 amalgam of the BMA and BVRC, which had both been reorganised in line with the [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] after the [[First World War]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.bm/governor-bermuda|title=The Governor of Bermuda|last=travis.smith-simons|date=3 March 2016|website=gov.bm|access-date=7 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210050132/https://www.gov.bm/governor-bermuda|archive-date=10 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thebermudian.com/heritage/heritage-heritage/the-good-governor/|title=The Good Governor |work=The Bermudian|last=Shorto|first=Gavin|date=5 April 2018|access-date=10 May 2018}}</ref>