Norfolk Island Administrators


Lieutenant governors
Philip Gidley King
6 Mar 1788 - 24 Mar 1790
Robert Ross
24 Mar 1790 - Nov 1791
Philip Gidley King
4 Nov 1791 - Oct 1796
John Townson
Oct 1796 - Nov 1799
Thomas Rowley
Nov 1799 - Jun 1800
Joseph Foveaux
26 Jun 1800 - 9 Sep 1804
John Piper
9 Sep 1804 - Jan 1810
Thomas Alexander Crane
Jan 1810 - 15 Feb 1814
Superintendent
William Hutchinson
15 Feb 1813 - 15 Feb 1814
Commandants
Richard Turton
6 Jun 1825 - Mar 1826
Vance Young Donaldson
Mar 1826 - Aug 1827
Thomas Edward Wright
Aug 1827 - Nov 1828
Robert Hunt
Nov 1828 - Feb 1829
Joseph Wakefield
Feb 1829 - 29 Jun 1829
John Thomas Morisset
29 Jun 1829 - 1834
Foster Fyans
1834
Joseph Anderson
1834 - Apr 1839
Thomas Bunbury
Apr 1839 - Jul 1839
Thomas Ryan
Jul 1839 - Mar 1840
Alexander Maconochie
17 Mar 1840 - 1844
Joseph Childs
8 Feb 1844 - 5 Aug 1846
John Giles Price
6 Aug 1846 - 18 Jan 1853
Rupert Deering
Jan 1853 - Sep 1853
H. Day
Sep 1854 - 5 May 1855
Caretaker
Thomas Samuel Stewart
5 May 1855 - 8 Jun 1856
Chief magistrates
George Martin Frederick Young
8 Jun 1856 - 1857
Isaac Christian
1858
George Martin Frederick Young
1859
Thomas Buffett
1860 - 1861
Arthur Quintal II
1862 - 1865
William Quintal
1866
John Buffett
1867 - 1870
David Buffett
1871
William Quintal
1872 - 1873
Fletcher Christian Nobbs
1874 - 1875
Francis Mason Nobbs
1876 - 1880
John Buffett
1881 - 1882
Francis Mason Nobbs
1883 - 1884
Arthur Quintal II
1885
Stephen Christian
1886 - 1887
Henry Seymour Buffett
1888
Stephen Christian
1889 - 1890
Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams
1891 - 1892
Stephen Christian
1893
Francis Mason Nobbs
1894
1895 - 1896
6 Jun 1825 - Mar 1826
Administrators
Warner Wright Spalding
1896 - 1898
Charles McArthur King
1898 - 1903
Walton Drake
1903 - 1907
Charles Sinclair Elliot
1907 - 1913


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