Governor of the Falkland Islands

The Governor of the Falkland Islands is the local representative of the British Crown in the Falkland Islands. Historically, Argentina, France and Spain have also had control and local representatives.

List of Governors

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The flag of the Governor of the Falkland Islands
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Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Port Egmont
1767 1768 Captain John McBride, HMS Jason
1768 1769 Capt. Rayner
1769 1770 Capt. Anthony Hunt, HMS Tamar
1770 1770 Capt. George Farmer, HMS Favourite
1771 1772 Capt. John Burr, HMS Hound
1773 1774 Lt. Samuel Wittewrong Clayton
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Administrator of the French Settlement of Fort St. Louis
1764 1767 Antoine Louis de Bougainville
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Military Administrators of the Spanish Settlement of Port Soledad
1767 1773 Felipe Ruíz Puente
1773 1774 Domingo Chauria
1774 1777 Francisco Gil Lemos
1777 1779 Ramón de Carassa
1779 1781 Salvador de Medina
1781 1783 Jacinto de Altolaguirre
1783 1784 Fulgencio Montemayor
1784 1786 Augustín Figueroa
1786 1787 Pedro de Mesa y Casto
1787 1788 Ramón Clairac
1788 1789 Pedro de Mesa y Casto
1789 1790 Ramón Clairac
1790 1791 Juan José de Elizalde
1791 1792 Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto
1792 1793 Juan José de Elizalde
1793 1794 Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto
1794 1795 José Aldana Ortega
1795 1796 Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto
1796 1797 José Aldana Ortega
1797 1798 Luis de Medina Torres
1798 1799 Francisco Javier de Viana
1799 1800 Luis de Medina Torres
1800 1801 Francisco Javier de Viana
1801 1802 Ramón Fernández Villegas
1802 1803 Bernardo Bonavía
1803 1804 Antonio Leal de Ibarra
1804 1805 Bernardo Bonavía
1805 1806 Antonio Leal de Ibarra
1806 1809 Bernardo Bonavía
1809 1810 Gerardo Bordas
1810 1811 Pablo Guillén
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Argentine Governors of Port Soledad
1820 1821 Daniel Jewitt
1821 1822 Guillermo Mason
1823 1828 Pablo Areguatyi
1829 1831 Louis Vernet
1832 1832 Juan Esteban Mestivier
1832 1833 Capt. Jose Maria Pinedo
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Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Fort Louis
1833 1833 William Dickson (interim)
1833 1838 Lt. Henry Smith
1838 1839 Lt. Robert Lowcay
1839 1839 Lt. Robinson
1839 1841 Lt. John Tyssen
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Lieutenant Governor of the Falkland Islands at Anson's Harbour
1841 1843 Lt. Richard Clement Moody
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Governor of the Falkland Islands at Port Stanley
1843 1848 Lt. Richard Clement Moody
1848 1855 Lt. George Rennie
1855 1862 Capt. Thomas Edward Laws Moore
1862 1866 Capt. James George Mackenzie
1866 1870 William Cleaver Francis Robinson, CMG
1870 1876 Colonel George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy
1876 1880 Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan
1880 1886 Thomas Kerr, CMG
1886 1887 Arthur Cecil Stuart Barkly
1887 1891 Thomas Kerr, CMG
1891 1897 Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy, KCMG
1897 1904 Sir William Grey-Wilson, KCMG
1904 1915 Sir William Lamond Allardyce, KCMG
1915 1920 Sir William Douglas Young, KBE, CMG
1920 1927 Sir John Middleton, KBE, CMG
1927 1931 Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson, KCMG
1931 1934 Sir James O'Grady, KCMG
1935 1941 Sir Herbert Henniker-Heaton, KCMG
1941 1946 Sir Allan Wolsey Cardinall, KBE, CMG
1946 1954 Sir Geoffrey Miles Clifford, KBE, CMG, ED
1954 1957 Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur, KCMG, CVO
1957 1964 Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith, KCMG
1964 1970 Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard, KCMG, MBE
1971 1975 Sir Ernest Gordon Lewis, CMG, OBE
1975 1977 Sir Neville Arthur Irwin French, CMG, MVO
1977 1980 Sir James Roland Walter Parker, CMG, OBE
1980 2 Apr 1982 Sir Rex Masterman Hunt, CMG
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Argentine Military Commander at Puerto Argentino
2 Apr 1982 General Oswaldo Jorge Garcia (interim)
3 Apr 1982 14 Jun 1982 Brigadier General Mario Benjamín Menéndez
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British Military Commander at Port Stanley
14 Jun 1982 25 Jun 1982 Brigadier General John Jeremy Moore
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Civil Commissioner of the Falkland Islands at Port Stanley
25 Jun 1982 16 Oct 1985 Rex Masterman Hunt, CMG
Governors of the Falkland Islands at Stanley (and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
From To Name
1985 1988 Gordon Wesley Jewkes, CMG
1988 1992 William Hugh Fullerton, CMG
1992 1996 David Everard Tatham, CMG
1996 1999 Richard Peter Ralph, CMG, CVO
1999 2002 Donald Alexander Lamont
2002 present Howard John Stredder Pearce, CMG

External links

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See also: Governor of the Falkland Islands, Argentina, British Crown, Falkland Islands, France, George Rennie (sculptor and politician), Henry Smith, Robinson, Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy