List of colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus
Governor of British Cyprus | |
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Coat of Arms of the Governor of Cyprus | |
Style | His Excellency |
Residence | Government House |
Appointer | King/Queen of the United Kingdom |
Precursor | High Commissioner of Cyprus |
Formation | 10 March 1925 |
First holder | Sir Malcolm Stevenson |
Final holder | Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot |
Abolished | 16 August 1960 |
Succession | President of Cyprus |
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Last flag of Cyprus under British colonial rule, adopted in 1922
The following is a list of colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus.
Hitherto a territory of the Ottoman Empire, a British protectorate under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878. The United Kingdom declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914 and annexed Cyprus. Turkey recognised British possession of Cyprus by the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923 and the island became a Crown Colony on 10 March 1925. Following the London and Zurich Agreements of 19 February 1959 Cyprus became independent on 16 August 1960.
List of High Commissioners (1878–1925)
Name (Birth–Death) |
Portrait | From | To |
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Lord John Hay (1827–1916) (acting) | ![]() | 12 July 1878 | 22 July 1878 |
Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833–1913) | ![]() | 22 July 1878 | 23 June 1879 |
Sir Robert Biddulph (1835–1918) | ![]() | 23 June 1879 | 9 March 1886 |
Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer (1836–1914) | ![]() | 9 March 1886 | 5 April 1892 |
Sir Walter Joseph Sendall (1832–1904) | ![]() | 5 April 1892 | 23 April 1898 |
Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith (1839–1928) | ![]() | 23 April 1898 | 17 October 1904 |
Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman (1851–1939) | ![]() | 17 October 1904 | 12 October 1911 |
Hamilton Goold-Adams (1858–1920) | ![]() | 12 October 1911 | 8 January 1915 |
Sir John Eugene Clauson (1866–1918) | ![]() | 8 January 1915 | 31 December 1918 (died in office) |
Sir Malcolm Stevenson (1878–1927) | ![]() | 31 December 1918 (acting to 31 July 1920) | 10 March 1925 |
List of Governors (1925–1960)
Name (Birth–Death) |
Portrait | From | To |
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Sir Malcolm Stevenson (1878–1927) | ![]() | 10 March 1925 | 30 November 1926 |
Sir Ronald Storrs (1881–1955) | ![]() | 30 November 1926 | 29 October 1932 |
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs (1876–1947) | ![]() | 29 October 1932 | 8 November 1933 |
Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer (1877–1958) | ![]() | 8 November 1933 | 4 July 1939 |
William Denis Battershill (1896–1959) | ![]() | 4 July 1939 | 3 October 1941 |
Charles Campbell Woolley (1893–1981) | ![]() | 3 October 1941 | 24 October 1946 |
Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster (1885–1961) | ![]() | 24 October 1946 | 4 August 1949 |
Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright (1895–1971) | ![]() | 4 August 1949 | 1954 |
Sir Robert Perceval Armitage (1906–1990) | ![]() | 1954 | 25 September 1955 |
Sir John Alan Francis Harding (1896–1989) | ![]() | 25 September 1955 | 22 October 1957 |
Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot (1907–1990) | ![]() | 3 December 1957 | 16 August 1960 |
Deputy Governors
- Sir George Evelyn Sinclair: 1955–1960
See also
References
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