List of governors of the Falkland Islands

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

From	To	Name
1764	1767	Louis Antoine de Bougainville

From	To	Name
1767	1768	Capt. John MacBride, 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

From	To	Name
1829	1831	Luis Vernet
1832	1832	Juan Esteban Mestivier †

From	To	Name
1841	1843	Lt. Richard Clement Moody

Flag of the governor of the Falkland Islands, 1876–1925

Flag of the governor of the Falkland Islands, 1925–1948

Current flag of the governor of the Falkland Islands, 1948–present

From	To	Name
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	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	Ernest Gordon Lewis CMG OBE
1975	1977	Neville Arthur Irwin French CMG MVO
1977	1980	James Roland Walter Parker CMG OBE
1980	2 April 1982	Sir Rex Masterman Hunt CMG


From	To	Name
2 April 1982	3 April 1982	General Oswaldo Jorge García (interim)
3 April 1982	14 June 1982	Brigadier General Mario Benjamín Menéndez

From	To	Name
14 June 1982	25 June 1982	Major General Sir Jeremy Moore KCB OBE MC*

From	To	Name
25 June 1982	16 October 1985	Sir Rex Masterman Hunt CMG

Then Governor Colin Roberts (centre) in his uniform as governor, Christ Church Cathedral, Remembrance Sunday 2016

From	To	Name
1985	1988	Sir Gordon Wesley Jewkes KCMG
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 Edden Huckle
2010	2014	Nigel Robert Haywood CVO
2014	2017	Colin Roberts CVO
2017	2022	Nigel James Phillips CBE
2022	Incumbent	Alison Mary Blake CMG

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