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Governors and Predecessors
The following is a list of the persons who have served the Islands from 1750 to the present as Chief Magistrates, Commissioners, Administrators and Governors.
Chief Magistrates of Custodes
- 1750 William Cartwright
- 1776 William Bodden
- 1823 James Coe the Elder
- 1829 John Drayton
- 1842 James Coe the Younger
- 1855 William Eden
- 1879 William Bodden Webster
- 1888 Edmund Parsons
Commissioners
- 1898 Frederick Shedden Sanguinnetti, ISO
- 1907 George Stephenson Shirt Hirst
- 1912 Arthur C. Robinson
- 1919 Hugh Houston Hutchings
- 1929 Captain G.H. Frith
- 1931 Ernest Arthur Weston
- 1934 Allen Wolsey Cardinall, CMG (later Sir Allen)
- 1940 Albert Colinridge Panton Snr, MBE (acting)
- 1941 John Penry Jones
- 1946 Ivor Otterbein Smith (later CMG, OBE)
- 1952 Andrew Morris Gerrard, CMG
- 1956 Alan Hilliard Donald
- 1960 Jack Rose, MBE, DFC (Later CMG)
Administrators
- 1962 Jack Rose, MBE, DFC (Later CMG)
- 1964 John Alfred Cumber, CMG (later Sir John)
- 1968 Athelstan Charles Ethelwulf Long, CMG, CBE
Governors
- 1971 Athelstan Charles Ethelwulf Long, CMG, CBE
- 1972 Kenneth Roy Crook (later CMG)
- 1974 Thomas Russell, CMG, CVO
- 1982 George Peter Lloyd, CMG, CVO
- 1987 Alan James Scott, CVO, CBE
- 1992 Michael Edward John Gore, CVO, CBE
- 1995 John Wynne Owen, MBE (later CMG)
- 1999 Peter John Smith, CBE
- 2002 Bruce Harry Dinwiddy, CMG
- 2005 Stuart D.M. Jack, CVO
- 2010 Duncan Taylor, CBE
- 2013 Helen Kilpatrick, CB
- 2018 Anwar Choudhury
- 2018 Martyn Roper, OBE
- 2023 Jane Owen
