Governor of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha - List of Governors of Saint Helena - British Crown Governors

British Crown Governors

Following on from St Helena becoming a crown colony in 1834, the first governor was appointed in 1836.

  1. 1836 – Major General George Middlemore
  2. 1842 – Colonel Hamelin Trelawney
  3. 1846 – Major General Sir Patrick Ross
  4. 1851 – Colonel Sir Thomas Gore Browne
  5. 1856 – Sir Edward Hay Drummond Hay
  6. 1863 – Admiral Sir Charles Elliot
  7. 1870 – Vice Admiral Charles George Edward Patey
  8. 1873 – Hudson Ralph Janisch
  9. 1890 – W. Grey Wilson
  10. 1897 – Robert Armitage Sterndale
  11. 1903 – Lieutenant Colonel Henry Galway
  12. 1912 – Major Sir Harry Cordeaux
  13. 1920 – Colonel Sir Robert Peel
  14. 1925 - Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Iremonger (Acting Governor)
  15. 1925 – Sir Charles Harper
  16. 1932 – Sir Spencer Davis
  17. 1938 – Sir Guy Pilling
  18. 1941 – Major William Bain Gray
  19. 1947 – Sir George Joy
  20. 1954 – Sir James Harford
  21. 1958 - George Albert Lewis (acting to 1959)
  22. 1960 – Sir Robert Alford
  23. 1963 – Sir John Field
  24. 1969 – Sir Dermod Murphy
  25. 1971 – Sir Thomas Oates
  26. 1976 – Geoffrey Colin Guy
  27. 1981 – Sir John Dudley Massingham
  28. 1984 – Francis Eustace Baker
  29. 1988 – Robert F Stimson
  30. 1991 – Alan Hoole
  31. 1995 – David Leslie Smallman
  32. 1999 – David Hollamby
  33. 2004 – Michael Clancy
  34. 2007 – Andrew Gurr
  35. 2011 - Mark Andrew Capes

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