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The Governors of New South Wales

Reign

UK Ministries  - Prime

Minister

Secretary of State

NSW - Governor

 

 

(For Home Affairs)

 

George III (1760)

Pitt, William (1783-1801)

 

 

 

 

Sydney, Lord (1789 - 1789)

Phillip, Captain Arthur (Jan 1788)

 

 

Grenville, Lord (1789 - 1791)

 

 

 

Dundas, Henry (1791 - 1794)

 

 

 

 

*Grose, Major Francis (Dec 1792)

 

 

Portland, Duke of (1794 - 1801)

*Paterson, Captain William (Dec 1794)

 

 

 

Hunter, Captain John (Sept 1795)

 

 

 

King,  Captain Philip Gidley (Sept 1800)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(For War & Colonies)

 

 

Addington, Henry (March 1801- 1804)

Hobart, Lord (1801 - 1804)

 

 

Pitt, William (1804-1806)

Camden, Earl (1804 - 1805))

 

 

 

Castlereagh, Visc. (1805 - 1806))

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grenville, Lord (Feb 1806- 1807)

Windham, William (1806 - 1807)

Bligh, Captain William (Aug 1806)

 

 

 

 

 

Portland, Duke of (Mch 1807- 1809)

Castlereagh, Visc. (1807 - 1809)

 

 

 

 

*Johnston, Major George (Jan 1808)

 

Perceval, Spencer (Oct 1809 - 1812)

Liverpool, Earl of (1809 - 1812)

*Foveaux, Major Joseph (Sept 1808)

 

 

 

*Paterson, Lieut. Col. William (Jan 1809)

 

Liverpool, Earl of (Jun 1812 - 1827)

Bathurst, Earl (1812 - 1827)

Macquarie, Major Gen. Lachlan (Jan 1810)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George IV (1820)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brisbane, Major Gen. Thomas (Dec 1821)

 

 

 

*Stewart, Lieutenant Col. William 

(Dec 1825)

 

Canning, George (April 1827 - 1827)

Goderich, Visc. (May 1827)

Darling, Lieut. Gen. Ralph (Dec 1825)

 

Goderich, Visc. (Sept 1827 - 1828)

Huskisson, William (1827 - 1828)

 

 

Wellington, Duke of (Jan 1828 - 1830)

Murray, Sir George (1828 - 1830)

 

 

 

 

 

William IV (1830)

Grey, Earl (Nov 1830 - 1834)

Goderich, Vis. (1830 - 1833)

 

 

 

 

*Lindesay, Colonel Patrick (Oct 1831)

 

 

 

Bourke, Major Gen. Richard (Dec 1831)

 

 

Stanley, Lord (1833 - 1834)

 

 

Melbourne, Visc. (July 1834)

Spring-Rice, Thomas (1834)

 

 

Peel, Sir Robert (Dec 1834 - 1835)

Aberdeen, Lord (1834 - 1835)

 

 

Melbourne, Visc. (Apr 1835 - 1841)

Glenelg, Lord (1835 - 1839)

 

 

 

 

 

Victoria (1837)

 

 

*Snodgrass, Lieut. Col. Kenneth (Dec 1837)

 

 

 

Gipps, Sir George (Feb 1838)

 

 

Normanby, Marquis of (1839)

 

 

 

Russell, Lord J (1839 - 1841)

 

 

Peel, Sir Robert (Sept 1841 - 1846)

Stanley, Lord (1841 - 1845)

 

 

 

Gladstone, W.E. (1845 - 1846)

 

 

Russell, Lord John (June 1846 - 1852)

Grey, Earl (1846 - 1852)

*O'Connell, Maurice (July 1846)

 

 

 

Fitz Roy, Sir Charles (Aug 1846)

 

 

 

 

 

Derby, Earl of  (Feb 1852 - 1852)

Pakington, J.S. (1852)

 

 

Aberdeen, Earl of (Dec 1852 - 1855)

Newcastle, Duke of (1852 - 1854)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(for the Colonies)

 

 

 

Grey, Sir George (1854)

 

 

Palmerston, Visc. (Feb 1855 - 1858)

Herbert, Sydney (Feb 1855)

Denison, Sir William (Jan 1855 - Jan 1861)

 

 

Russell, Lord J (May 1855)

 

 

 

Molesworth, Sir William (July 1855)

 

 

 

Labouchere, Henry (Nov 1855)

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