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The following is a list of governors of the Falkland Islands . Historically, several countries have had leaders on the islands with varying titles and degrees of power.
From | To | Name |
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1764 | 1767 | Louis Antoine de Bougainville |
From | To | Name |
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1767 | 1768 | Capt. John MacBride, HMS Jason |
1768 | 1769 | Capt. Rayner |
1769 | 1770 | Capt. Anthony Hunt, HMS Tamar |
1770 | 1770 | Capt. George Farmer, HMS Favourite |
1771 | 1772 | Capt. John Burr, HMS Hound |
1773 | 1776 | Lt. Samuel Wittewrong Clayton |
From | To | Name |
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1767 | 1773 | Felipe Ruíz Puente |
1773 | 1774 | Domingo Chauria |
1774 | 1777 | Francisco Gil Lemos |
1777 | 1779 | Ramón de Carassa |
1779 | 1781 | Salvador de Medina |
1781 | 1783 | Jacinto de Altolaguirre |
1783 | 1784 | Fulgencio Montemayor |
1784 | 1786 | Augustín Figueroa |
1786 | 1787 | Pedro de Mesa y Casto |
1787 | 1788 | Ramón Clairac |
1788 | 1789 | Pedro de Mesa y Casto |
1789 | 1790 | Ramón Clairac |
1790 | 1791 | Juan José de Elizalde |
1791 | 1792 | Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto |
1792 | 1793 | Juan José de Elizalde |
1793 | 1794 | Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto |
1794 | 1795 | José Aldana Ortega |
1795 | 1796 | Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto |
1796 | 1797 | José Aldana Ortega |
1797 | 1798 | Luis de Medina Torres |
1798 | 1799 | Francisco Javier de Viana |
1799 | 1800 | Luis de Medina Torres |
1800 | 1801 | Francisco Javier de Viana |
1801 | 1802 | Ramón Fernández Villegas |
1802 | 1803 | Bernardo Bonavía |
1803 | 1804 | Antonio Leal de Ibarra |
1804 | 1805 | Bernardo Bonavía |
1805 | 1806 | Antonio Leal de Ibarra |
1806 | 1809 | Bernardo Bonavía |
1809 | 1810 | Gerardo Bordas |
1810 | 1811 | Pablo Guillén |
From | To | Name |
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1829 | 1831 | Luis Vernet |
1832 | 1832 | Juan Esteban Mestivier † |
From | To | Name |
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1833 | 1838 | Lt. Henry Smith |
1838 | 1839 | Lt. Robert Lowcay |
1839 | 1839 | Lt. Robinson |
1839 | 1841 | Lt. John Tyssen |
From | To | Name |
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1841 | 1843 | Lt. Richard Clement Moody |
From | To | Name |
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1843 | 1848 | Lt. Richard Clement Moody |
1848 | 1855 | Lt. George Rennie |
1855 | 1862 | Capt. Thomas Edward Laws Moore |
1862 | 1866 | Capt. James George Mackenzie |
1866 | 1870 | Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson |
1870 | 1876 | Colonel George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy |
1876 | 1880 | Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan |
1880 | 1891 | Thomas Kerr |
1891 | 1897 | Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy |
1897 | 1904 | Sir William Grey-Wilson |
1904 | 1915 | Sir William Lamond Allardyce |
1915 | 1920 | Sir William Douglas Young |
1920 | 1927 | Sir John Middleton |
1927 | 1931 | Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson |
1931 | 1934 | Sir James O'Grady |
1935 | 1941 | Sir Herbert Henniker-Heaton |
1941 | 1946 | Sir Allan Wolsey Cardinall |
1946 | 1954 | Sir Geoffrey Miles Clifford |
1954 | 1957 | Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur |
1957 | 1964 | Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith |
1964 | 1970 | Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard |
1971 | 1975 | Ernest Gordon Lewis |
1975 | 1977 | Neville Arthur Irwin French |
1977 | 1980 | James Roland Walter Parker |
1980 | 2 April 1982 | Sir Rex Masterman Hunt |
From | To | Name |
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2 April 1982 | 3 April 1982 | General Oswaldo Jorge García (interim) |
3 April 1982 | 14 June 1982 | Brigadier General Mario Benjamín Menéndez |
From | To | Name |
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14 June 1982 | 25 June 1982 | Major General Sir Jeremy Moore |
From | To | Name |
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25 June 1982 | 16 October 1985 | Sir Rex Masterman Hunt |
From | To | Name |
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1985 | 1988 | Sir Gordon Wesley Jewkes |
1988 | 1992 | William Hugh Fullerton |
1992 | 1996 | David Everard Tatham |
1996 | 1999 | Richard Peter Ralph |
1999 | 2002 | Donald Alexander Lamont |
2002 | 2006 | Howard John Stredder Pearce |
2006 | 2010 | Alan Edden Huckle |
2010 | 2014 | Nigel Robert Haywood |
2014 | 2017 | Colin Roberts |
2017 | 2022 | Nigel James Phillips |
2022 | 2025 | Alison Mary Blake |
2025 | Incumbent | Colin Martin-Reynolds |