"As in all the other colonies, the king appointed the governor in South Carolina. "
It was only in 1719 that the Crown appointed Royal Governors . Before that, in 1633 when it was founded, the governor was appointed by the eight English nobles - Lords Proprietors, (Edward Hyde, George Monck, William Craven, John Berkeley, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Sir George Carteret, Sir William Berkeley and Sir John Colleton) . Later in 1691, the Colonial Proprietors decided that only one governor and one assemly was not enough for the Carolina chart , so they appointed a governor for the whole of Carolina and a deputy governor for the North of the colony.
However, these eight men had a power compared to the king's . They were conferred “full and absolute power...for the good and happy government of the said province”.
