List of governors of Fiji
Fiji was a British colony from 1874 to 1970 and an independent Commonwealth Realm in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1970 to 1987 . During this period the British monarch was the head of state, but in practice his functions were exercised by the governor prior to independence on October 10, 1970, and by the governor general prior to the proclamation of the republic on October 7, 1987.
List of governors
governor | Start day | Start month | Beginning year | End day | End month | End year | status |
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Sir Hercules Robinson | 10 | October | 1874 | June | 1875 | officially | |
Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon | June | 1875 | January | 1880 | |||
Sir William Des Vœux | January | 1880 | 1886 | ||||
Sir Charles Bulls Hugh Mitchell | 1887 | February | 1888 | ||||
Sir John Bates Thurston | February | 1888 | 7th | 1897 | |||
Sir George Thomas Michael O'Brien | 1897 | 1901 | |||||
William Lamond Allardyce | 1901 | 10 | September | 1902 | representative | ||
Sir Henry Moore Jackson | 10 | September | 1902 | 11 | October | 1904 | officially |
Sir Everard F. Im Thurn | 11 | October | 1904 | 21st | February | 1911 | |
Sir Francis Henry May | 21st | February | 1911 | 25th | July | 1912 | |
Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott | 25th | July | 1912 | 10 | October | 1918 | |
Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell | 10 | October | 1918 | 25th | April | 1925 | |
Sir Eyre Hutson | 25th | April | 1925 | 22nd | November | 1929 | |
Sir Arthur George Murchison Fletcher | 22nd | November | 1929 | 28 | 1936 | ||
Sir Arthur Frederick Richards | 28 | 1936 | August | 1938 | |||
Sir Harry Charles Luke | 16 | September | 1938 | 21st | July | 1942 | |
Sir Philip Euen Mitchell | 21st | July | 1942 | 1 | January | 1945 | |
Sir Alexander Grantham | 1 | January | 1945 | 1946 | |||
Leslie Freeston | 20th | January | 1948 | 6th | October | 1952 | |
Ronald Herbert Garvey | 6th | October | 1952 | 28 | October | 1958 | |
Kenneth Maddocks | 28 | October | 1958 | 6th | January | 1964 | |
Derek Jakeway | 6th | January | 1964 | December | 1968 | ||
Robert Foster | December | 1968 | 10 | October | 1970 |
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