List of Governors of the Falkland Islands
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The following is a list of Governors of the Falkland Islands. Historically, several countries have had leaders on the islands with varying titles and degrees of power.
List of Governors
Administrator of the French Settlement of Fort St. Louis
From | To | Name |
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1764 | 1767 | Louis Antoine de Bougainville |
Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Port Egmont
From | To | Name |
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1767 | 1768 | Capt. 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 | 1776 | Lt. Samuel Wittewrong Clayton |
Military Administrators of the Spanish Settlement of Puerto Soledad
From | To | Name |
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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 |
Military and Civil Commander of Puerto Luis (Port Louis)
From | To | Name |
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1829 | 1831 | Luis Vernet |
1832 | 1832 | Juan Esteban Mestivier |
Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Fort Louis
From | To | Name |
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1833 | 1838 | Lt. Henry Smith |
1838 | 1839 | Lt. Robert Lowcay |
1839 | 1839 | Lt. Robinson |
1839 | 1841 | Lt. John Tyssen |
Lieutenant Governor of the Falkland Islands at Anson's Harbour
From | To | Name |
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1841 | 1843 | Lt. Richard Clement Moody |
Governor of the Falkland Islands at Port Stanley

The current flag of the Governor of the Falkland Islands.
From | To | Name |
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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 | Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson GCMG |
1870 | 1876 | Colonel George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy |
1876 | 1880 | Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan CMG |
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 GCMG |
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 April 1982 | Sir Rex Masterman Hunt KCMG |
Argentine Military Commanders at Puerto Argentino
Main article: Occupation of the Falkland Islands
From | To | Name |
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2 April 1982 | 3 April 1982 | General Oswaldo Jorge Garcia (interim) |
3 April 1982 | 14 June 1982 | Brigadier General Mario Benjamín Menéndez |
British Military Commander at Port Stanley
From | To | Name |
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14 June 1982 | 25 June 1982 | Major General Sir Jeremy Moore KCB OBE MC* |
Civil Commissioner of the Falkland Islands at Port Stanley
From | To | Name |
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25 June 1982 | 16 October 1985 | Sir Rex Masterman Hunt CMG |
Governors of the Falkland Islands at Stanley (and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands from 1985)
From | To | Name |
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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 | 2006 | Howard John Stredder Pearce CMG |
2006 | 2010 | Alan Huckle |
2010 | 2014 | Nigel Haywood CVO |
2014 | Present | Colin Roberts CVO |
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