Governors of Western Australia

Name Period of Service Captain Sir James Stirling 1828 - 1839 John Hutt 1839 - 1846 Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Clarke 1846 - 1847 Captain Charles Fitzgerald 1848 - 1855 Arthur Edward Kennedy (Afterwards Sir) 1855 - 1862 John Stephen Hampton 1862 - 1868 Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine 1 1868 - 1869 Frederick Aloysius Weld 1869 - 1875 Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson 1875 - 1877 Major-General Sir Harry St. George Ord 1878 - 1880 Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson 1880 - 1883 Sir Frederick Napier Broome 1883 - 1889 Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson 1890 - 1895 Lieut.-Colonel Sir Gerard Smith 1895 - 1900 Captain Sir Arthur Lawley 1901 - 1902 Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford 1903 - 1909 Sir Gerald Strickland 1909 - 1913 Major-General Sir Harry Barron 1913 - 1917 Sir William Grey Ellison - Macartney 1917 - 1920 Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate 1920 - 1924 Colonel Sir William Robert Campion 1924 - 1931 Lieut.-Governor The Hon. Sir James Mitchell 1933 - 1948 Lieut.-General Sir Charles Henry Gairdner 1951 - 1963 Major-General Sir Douglas Anthony Kendrew 1963 - 1973 Air Commodore Sir Hughie Idwal Edwards 1974 - 1975 Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle 1975 - 1980 Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge 1980 - 1983 Professor Gordon Stanley Reid 1984 - 1989 Hon Sir Francis Theodore Page Burt 1990 - 1993 Major-General Michael Philip Jeffery 1993 - 2000 Lieut. General John Sanderson 2000 - 2005 Dr Kenneth Comninos Michael 2006 - 2011 Mr Malcolm McCusker AO QC 2011 -

Footnote 1 By Letters Patent issued on 20 July 1868 Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine was appointed Governor but he did not take up the appointment and on 14 April 1869 Frederick Aloysius Weld was appointed “in the room of Sir Benjamin Pine”.

Sources : Black, David and John Mandy (editors). The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook.Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2002.

Governors and Premiers of Western Australia Perth, W.A. : Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, 2002.

Fact Sheets No. 3: Governors of Western Australia Compiled by the Western Australian Parliamentary Library, August 2011 Scope Note 3: Governors of Western Australia

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