Daniel Searle was an Americantobacco planter, who played an important role in the history of Barbados by becoming governor of the island in 1652 when it was submitted by the New Model Army during the Barbados Expedition. until 1660.
He was appointed governor of the island in 1652 when it made his bid to Sir George Ayscue, commanding a squadron of Parliament. In December 1654, he was named among the three civil commissars who were to share the direction of Western Design with Admirals Venables and Penn. During the passage of the fleet to Barbados in 1655, before the conquest of Jamaica, he authorized the lifting of a volunteer regiment by Colonel Lewis Morris but remained there too.
He remained Governor of Barbados until the English Restoration of 1660, when Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham succeeded him. He retained his seat as a member of the colony council.