List of colonial governors and administrators of Kenya

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This article contains a list of chairmen, administrators, commissioners and governors of British Kenya Colony.

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The office of Governor of Kenya was replaced by the office of Governor-General in 1963 and then later replaced by a President of Kenya, upon Kenya becoming a Republic in 1964. For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of Kenya.

Chairmen/Administrators of the Imperial British East Africa Company

#Name
(birth–death)
Took officeLeft officeNotes
Chairmen
1 SirWilliam Mackinnon
(1823–1893)
3 Sep 18881889
Administrators
1 George Mackenzie
(1844–1910)
3 Sep 1889May 1890
2 Francis de Winton
(1835–1901)
May 1890Feb 1891
- George Mackenzie
(1844–1910)
Feb 1891Jun 1891
  • Acting Administrator
3 Ernest Berkeley
(1857–1932)
Jun 1891Sep 1891
4 Lloyd Mathews
(1850–1901)
Sep 1891Feb 1892
5 SirGerald Portal
(1858–1894)
Feb 1892May 1893
6 John Pigott 1893Jul 1895
  • Indian Land Acquisition Act, 1894

Commissioners and Governors of the East Africa Protectorate/Kenya

#Name
(birth–death)
Took officeLeft officeNotes
Commissioners and Governors of the East Africa Protectorate
7 SirArthur Henry Hardinge
(1859–1933)
1 Jul 18957 Oct 1900
8 Trevor Ternan 7 Oct 190030 Dec 1900
  • Acting Commissioner
9 SirCharles Eliot
(1861–1931)
30 Dec 190020 May 1904
10 Frederick John Jackson
(1860–1929)
20 May 19041 Aug 1904
  • Acting Commissioner
11 SirDonald William Stewart
(1860–1905)
1 Aug 19041 Oct 1905
10Frederick John Jackson
(1860–1929)
1 Oct 190512 Dec 1905
  • Commissioner
12 SirJames Hayes Sadler
(1827–1910)
12 Dec 190512 Apr 1909
13 Sir Charles Calvert Bowring
(1872–1945)
12 Apr 190916 Sep 1909
14 SirPercy Girouard
(1867–1932)
16 Sep 190917 Jul 1912
  • Second Maasai Treaty
13 Sir Charles Calvert Bowring
(1872–1945)
17 Jul 19123 Oct 1912
  • Acting Governor
15 SirHenry Conway Belfield
(1855–1923)
3 Oct 191214 Apr 1917
13Sir Charles Calvert Bowring
(1872–1945)
14 Apr 19171 Feb 1919
  • Acting Governor
16 SirEdward Northey
(1868–1953)
1 Feb 191911 Jun 1920
Governors of The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya
16 SirEdward Northey
(1868–1953)
11 Jun 192028 Aug 1922
  • East Africa Protectorate renamed The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya.
  • 10 mile coastal strip under the domain of the Sultan of Zanzibar becomes a Protectorate.
  • Founding of Reform Party
17 SirRobert Coryndon
(1870–1925)
31 Aug 192210 Feb 1925
18 Edward Brandis Denham
(1876–1938)
10 Feb 19253 Oct 1925
19 Edward Grigg
(1879–1955)
3 Oct 192527 Sep 1930
  • Native Lands Trust Ordinance
  • Rudolf Province ceded from Uganda
  • Coryndon Museum opened
  • Health care established for all races (by Joan Grigg) [1]
20 SirHenry Monck-Mason Moore
(1887–1964)
27 Sep 193013 Feb 1931
  • Governor
21 SirJoseph Byrne
(1874–1942)
13 Feb 193122 Dec 1936
22 SirArmigel Wade
(1880–1966)
22 Dec 19366 Apr 1937
  • Governor
23 SirRobert Brooke-Popham
(1878–1953)
6 Apr 19379 Jan 1940
24 Walter Harragin
(1890–1966)
30 Sep 19399 Jan 1940
  • Acting Governor
20SirHenry Monck-Mason Moore
(1887–1964)
9 Jan 194025 Oct 1944
25 SirPhilip Mitchell
(1890–1964)
11 Dec 194421 Jun 1952
26 Henry Steven Potter
(1904–1976)
21 Jun 195229 Sept 1952
  • Acting Governor
27 SirEvelyn Baring
(1903–1973)
30 Sept 19524 Oct 1959
28 Walter Coutts
(1912–1988)
4 Oct 195923 Oct 1959
  • Acting Governor
29 SirPatrick Muir Renison
(1911–1965)
23 Oct 195917 Nov 1962
30 Sir Eric Griffith-Jones
(1913–1979)
17 Nov 19624 Jan 1963
  • Acting Governor
31 Malcolm MacDonald
(1901–1981)
4 Jan 196312 Dec 1964

See also

References

  1. Williams, Susan (2004). "Grigg [née Dickson-Poynder], Joan Alice Katherine, Lady Altrincham (1897–1987), organizer of maternity and nursing services in Africa" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76425. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 2021-01-24.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)