List of colonial governors of the British Virgin Islands


List of Colonial Heads of the British Virgin Islands
TermIncumbentNotes
English colonyEnglish colonyEnglish colony
1666
1741John PickeringPresident
1742 to 1750John HuntPresident
1750 to 1751James PurcellPresident
1751 to 1775John PurcellPresident
1775 to 1782John NugentPresident
1782 to 1811...President
1811 to 18..Richard HetheringtonPresident
Part of the Leeward IslandsPart of the Leeward IslandsPart of the Leeward Islands
1833 to 1839
1839 to 1850Edward Hay Drummond HayPresident
1852 to 1854John Cornell ChadsPresident
1854 to 1857Cornelius Hendricksen KortrightPresident
1859 to 1861Thomas PricePresident
1861 to 1864James Robert LongdenPresident
1866 to 1869Sir Arthur Carlos Henry RumboldPresident
1869 to 1872Alexander Wilson MuirPresident
1873 to 1879Richard Mahoney HicksonPresident
1879 to 1882John Kemys Spencer-ChurchillPresident
1882 to 1884Richard Henry Kortright DyettPresident
1884 to 1887Fredrick Augustus PickeringPresident
1887 to 1893Edward John CameronAdministrator
1894 to 1896Alexander R. MackayAdministrator
1896 to 1903Nathaniel George CookmanAdministrator
1903 to 1910Robert Stephen EarlAdministrator
1910 to 1919Thomas Leslie Hardtman JarvisAdministrator
1919 to 1922Herbert Walter PeeblesAdministrator
1922 to 1923R. HargroveAdministrator
1923 to 1926Otho Lewis HancockAdministrator
1926 to 1934Frank Cecil ClarksonAdministrator
1934 to 1946Donald Percy WaillingAdministrator
1946 to 1954John Augustus Cockburn CruikshankAdministrator
1954 to 1956Henry Anthony Camillo HowardAdministrator
1956 to 1959Geoffrey Poole AllsebrookAdministrator
1959 to 1 January 1960Gerald Jackson BryanAdministrator
1 January 1960Dissolution of the Leeward Islands
1 January 1960 to 1962Gerald Jackson BryanAdministrator
1962 to 1967Martin Samuel StaveleyAdministrator
1967 to 1971John Sutherland ThomsonAdministrator
1971 to 1974Derek George CudmoreGovernor
1974 to 1978Walter Wilkinson WallaceGovernor
1978 to 1981James Alfred DavidsonGovernor
1982 to 1986David Robert BarwickGovernor
1986 to 1991J. Mark A. HerdmanGovernor
14 October 1991 to 21 June 1995Peter Alfred PenfoldGovernor
21 June 1995 to 1998David MackilliginGovernor
3 July 1998 to 5 October 2002Frank SavageGovernor
5 October 2002 to 14 October 2002Elton GeorgesActing Governor
14 October 2002 to 18 April 2006Tom MacanGovernor
18 April 2006 to 5 August 2010David PeareyGovernor
20 August 2010 to 1 August 2014William Boyd McClearyGovernor
15 August 2014 to 22 August 2017John S. Duncan OBEGovernor
22 August 2017 to presentAugustus JaspertGovernor