List of the Colonial Heads of Cyrenaica (Libya)
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
| Term | Incumbent | Notes
|
|---|---|---|
| 1843 | Foundation of the Sanusiya Order | |
| Awlad Sayyidi ‘Abd Allah Dynasty, (al-Khattabi al-Mujahiri al-Hasani al-Idrisi lineage) | ||
| 1843 to 7 September 1859 | Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad ibn ‘Ali as-Sanusi | |
| 7 September 1859 to 2 June 1902 | Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Sanusi | |
| 2 June 1902 to 21 August 1918 | Sheikh Sayyid Ahmad ibn Sayyid Muhammad ash-Sharif as-Sanusi | |
| 21 August 1918 to 25 October 1920 | Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad Idris as-Sanusi | |
| 25 October 1920 to 1929 | Emir Sayyid Muhammad Idris as-Sanusi 1st Term | |
| 1911 to 1913 | Ottavio Briccola, Governor | |
| October 1913 to 1918 | Giovanni Battista Ameglio, Governor | |
| 5 August 1918 to 1919 | Vincenzo Garioni, Governor | |
| 1920 | Italy claims sovereignty | |
| 5 August 1919 to 23 November 1921 | Giacomo De Martino, Governor | |
| 23 November 1921 to October 1922 | Luigi Pintor, Governor | |
| October 1922 to December 1922 | Eduardo Baccardi, Governor | |
| 7 January 1923 to 1924 | Luigi Bongiovanni, Governor | |
| 1924 to 2 December 1926 | Ernesto Mombelli, Governor | |
| 2 December 1926 to 1928 | Attilio Teruzzi, Governor | |
| January 1929 to March 1930 | Domenico Siciliani, Deputy Governor (to Pietro Badoglio) | |
| March 1930 to May 1934 | Rodolfo Graziani, marchese di Neghelli, Deputy Governor (to Pietro Badoglio) | |
| 1 January 1934 | Incorporated into Libya | |
| June 1934 to April 1935 | Guglielmo Nasi, Governor | |
| 1941 | British Administration | |
| February 1941 to 1942 | Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, Governor | |
| 1943 to 1945 | Duncan Cameron Cumming, Administrator | |
| 30 October 1945 to 1946 | Peter Bevil Edward Acland, Administrator | |
| October 1946 | Sanusi emir recognized by UK administering the territory for the UN | |
| 1946 to 1948 | James William Norris Haugh, Administrator | |
| 1948 to 1 June 1949 | Eric Armar Vully de Candole, Administrator | |
| 1 June 1949 | Emirate of Cyrenaica recognized | |
| 1 June 1949 to 17 September 1949 | Eric Armar Vully de Candole, Administrator | |
| 17 September 1949 to 1951 | Eric Armar Vully de Candole, Resident | |
| October 1946 to 24 December 1951 | Emir Sayyid Muhammad Idris as-Sanusi | 2nd Term |
| 24 December 1951 | Incorporated into Libya | |
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, colonial and/or governors:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)