Falklands Information - History

`GOVERNORS OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS`

`Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Port Egmont`
`1767 - 1768`	`Capt. John McBride, HMS Jason`
`1768 - 1769`	`Capt. Rayner`
`1769 - 1770`	`Capt. Anthony Hunt, HMS Tamar`
`1770`	`Capt. George Farmer, HMS Favourite`
`1771 - 1772`	`Capt. John Burr, HMS Hound`
`1773 - 1774`	`Lt. Samuel Wittewrong Clayton`
`Administrator of the French Settlement of Fort St. Louis`
`1764 - 1767`	`Antoine Louis de Bougainville`
`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`
`Argentine Governors of Port Soledad`
`1820 - 1821`	`Daniel Jewitt`
`1821 - 1822`	`Guillermo Mason`
`1823 - 1828`	`Pablo Areguatyi`
`1821 - 1831`	`Louis Vernet`
`1832`	`Juan Esteban Mestivier`
`1832-1833`	`Capt. Jose Maria Pinedo`
`Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Fort Louis`
`1833`	`William Dickson (interim)`
`1833 - 1838`	`Lt. Henry Smith`
`1838 - 1839`	`Lt. Robert Lowcay`
`1839`	`Lt. Robinson`
`1839 - 1841`	`Lt. John Tyssen`
`Lieutenant Governor of the Falkland Islands at Anson's Harbour`
`1841 - 1843`	`Lt. Richard Clement Moody`
`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`
`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`
`British Military Commander at Port Stanley`
`14 Jun 1982 - 25 Jun 1982`	`Brigadier General John Jeremy Moore`
`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)`
`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`	`Howard John Stredder Pearce, CMG`

Source 'History of the Falkland Islands' by Mary Cawkell, published 2001 by Anthony Nelson

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