Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of Tasmania

1804 - 1810 Colonel David Collins, Lt-Gov (South)¹

1804 - 1808 Lieutenant Colonel William Paterson, Lt-Gov (North)

1808 - 1810 Captain John Brabyn, Cmdt (North)

1810 Lieutenant Edward Lord, RM, Cmdt (South)

1810 - 1812 Major G A Gordon, Cmdt (North)

1810 - 1812 Captain J Murray, Cmdt (South)

June 1812 Captain J Ritchie, Cmdt (North)2

1812 - 1813 Major A E Geils, Cmdt

1813 - 1817 Colonel Thomas Davey, Lt-Gov

1817 - 1824 Colonel William Sorell, Lt-Gov

1824 - 1836 Colonel George Arthur, Lt-Gov

1837 - 1843 Sir John Franklin, KCH, RN, Lt-Gov

1843 - 1846 Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt, Lt-Gov

1847 - 1855 Sir William Denison, Lt-Gov

1855 - 1861 Sir Henry Fox Young, CB, Governor-in-Chief

1861 - 1869 Colonel Sir Thomas Gore Browne, CB

1869 - 1874 Sir Charles du Cane, KCMG,Governor and Commander-in-Chief

1875 - 1880 Sir Frederick Weld, GCMG

1880 - 1881 Sir John Henry Lefroy, KCMG, CB

1881 - 1886 Major Sir George Strahan, KCMG

1887 - 1892 Sir Robert Hamilton, KCB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief

1893 - 1900 The Viscount Gormanston, GCMG

1901 - 1904 Captain Sir Arthur Havelock, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE

1904 - 1909 Sir Gerald Strickland, GCMG

1909 - 1913 Major General Sir Harry Barron, KCMG, CVO

1913 - 1917 The Right Honourable Sir William Ellison-Macartney, KCMG

1917 - 1920 Sir Francis Newdegate, KCMG

1920 - 1922 Sir William Allardyce, KCMG

1924 - 1930 Sir James O'Grady

1933 - 1945 Sir Ernest Clark, GCMG, KCG, CBE

1945 - 1951 Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, KCB, KCMG, DSO

1951 - 1958 The Right Honourable Sir Ronald Cross, Bt, KCMG, KCVO

1959 - 1963 The Lord Rowallan, KT, KBE, MC, TD

1963 - 1968 Lieutenant General Sir Charles Gairdner, CBE, KCMG, KCVO, CB

1968 - 1973 Lieutenant General Sir Edric Bastyan, KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB

1973 - 1982 The Honourable Sir Stanley Burbury, KCMG, KCVO, KBE3

1982 - 1987 Sir James Plimsoll, AC, CBE

1987 - 1995 General Sir Phillip Bennett, AC, KBE, DSO

1995 - 2003 The Honourable Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, KCVO4

2003 - 2004 Mr Richard Butler, AC5

2004 - 2008 The Honourable William Cox, AC, RFD, ED

2008 - 2014 The Honourable Peter Underwood, AC

2014 - 2021 Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, AC

• 1Before the arrival of Colonel David Collins as Van Diemen's Land's first Lieutenant-Governor, the Colony was under the control of Lieutenant John Bowen, RN, as its Commandant.
• 2On 1st July 1812, the north of Van Diemen's Land was united with the south and administered from Hobart. Captain Ritchie had been Lieutenant Governor for only one month.
• 3Sir Stanley Burbury was the first Australian born Governor.
• 4Sir Guy Green was the first Tasmanian born Governor.
• 5Resigned from office on the 9th August 2004.