Southern Nigeria Administrators


Bight of Benin Consuls
Louis Fraser
May 1852 - 1853
Benjamin Campbell
1853 - Apr 1859
George Brand
Apr 1859 - 1860
Henry Hand
1860 - Jan 1861
Henry Grant Foote
Jan 1861 - May 1861
William McCoskry
May 1861 - 6 Aug 1861
Bight of Biafra Consuls
from 1861 includes Bight of Benin
John Beecroft
30 Jun 1849 - 10 Jun 1854
James Lynslager
10 Jun 1854 - 1855
Thomas Joseph Hutchinson
1855 - 1861
Richard Francis Burton
1861 - Dec 1864
Charles Livingstone
Dec 1864 - 1873
George Hartley
1873 - 1878
David Hopkins
1878 - 13 Sep 1879
Edward Hyde Hewett
13 Sep 1879 - 5 Jun 1885
Consuls General
Edward Hyde Hewett
5 Jun 1885 - 1 Jan 1891
Synge
1 Jan 1891 - 3 Aug 1891
Commissioners
Claude Maxwell MacDonald
3 Aug 1891 - 1896
Ralph Denham Rayment Moor
1893 - 13 May 1893
Ralph Denham Rayment Moor
1896 - 1 Jan 1900
Phillips
Nov 1896 - 4 Jan 1897
High Commissioners
Ralph Denham Rayment Moor
1 Jan 1900 - Aug 1904
Henry Gallwey
1900
Walter Egerton
Aug 1904 - 28 Feb 1906
Governors
Walter Egerton
28 Feb 1906 - 1912
James Thorburn
1907
Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard
1912 - 1 Jan 1914


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