List of superintendents of the provinces of New Zealand
This list includes all superintendents of the provinces of New Zealand from 1848 to 1877. The term of office of some superintendents extends beyond the entry into force of the Abolition of the Provinces Act on November 1, 1876, since the new county councils had to be elected first and not until January 1, 1877 took over their office.
1848 to 1953 (Lieutenant Governors)
New Munster
- January 28, 1848 - March 7, 1853: Edward John Eyre (1815-1901)
New Ulster
- February 14, 1848 - January 8, 1851 George Dean Pitt (1781-1851)
- April 26, 1851 - March 7, 1853 Robert Henry Wynyard (1802--1864)
1853 to 1877 (superintendent)
Auckland
- July 12, 1853 - January 5, 1855 Robert Henry Wynyard
- March 15, 1855 - November 1855 William Brown (1809/10 - 1898)
- November 15, 1855 - September 17, 1856 John Logan Campbell (1820--1912)
- November 11, 1856 - December 1862 John Williamson (1815--1875)
- December 11, 1862 - September 22, 1865 Robert Graham (1820-1885)
- October 25, 1865 - March 2, 1867 Frederick Whitaker (1812-1891)
- April 18, 1867 - December 1869 John Williamson
- December 2, 1869 - November 1873 Thomas Bannatyne Gillies (1828-1889)
- November 20, 1873 - February 16, 1875 John Williamson
- February 1875 - March 1875 George Maurice O'Rorke (1830-1916)
- March 24, 1875 - January 1, 1877 George Gray (1812--1898)
Canterbury
- July 20, 1853 - October 1857 James Edward Fitzgerald (1818-1896)
- October 24, 1857 - February 1863 William Sefton Moorhouse (1825-1881)
- March 1863 - May 1866 Samuel Bealey (1821-1909)
- May 30, 1866 - May 1868 William Sefton Moorhouse
- May 22, 1868 - January 1, 1877 William Rolleston (1831-1903)
Hawke's Bay
- April 23, 1859 - March 1861 Thomas Henry Fitzgerald (1824-1888)
- April 8, 1861 - December 5, 1862 John Chilton Lambton Carter (1816--1872)
- February 26, 1863 - September 23, 1869 Donald McLean (1820--1877)
- September 24, 1869 - January 1, 1877 John Davies Ormond (1832-1917)
Marlborough
- May 1, 1860 - July 20, 1861 William Adams
- August 28, 1861 - February 18, 1863 William Douglas Hall Baillie (1827-1922)
- March 25, 1863 - July 30, 1864 Thomas Carter
- September 19, 1864 - October 1865 Arthur Penrose Seymour (1832-1923)
- October 23, 1865 - February 1870 William Henry Eyes (1819-1907)
- March 28, 1870 - January 1, 1877 Arthur Penrose Seymour
Nelson
- August 1, 1853 - September 1856 Edward William Stafford (1819-1901)
- December 12, 1856 - January 28, 1865 John Perry Robinson (1809--1865)
- March 1865 - February 4, 1867 Alfred Saunders (1820-1905)
- April 1867 - January 1, 1877 Oswald Curtis (1821-1902)
Otago
- December 26, 1853 - December 1859 William Cargill (1784--1860)
- January 3, 1860 - March 6, 1861 James Macandrew (1819? - 1887)
- May 17, 1861 - April 15, 1863 John Larkins Cheese Richardson (1810-1878)
- April 16, 1863 - June 23, 1865 John Hyde Harris (1826--1886)
- August 11, 1865 - February 26, 1867 Thomas Dick
- February 27, 1867 - January 1, 1877 James Macandrew
Southland
(The province splits off from Otago in 1861 and reunited with this province in 1870)
- August 3, 1861 - November 1864 James Alexander Robertson Menzies (1821-1888)
- March 13, 1865 - November 1869 John Parkin Taylor (1812--1875)
- November 10, 1869 - September 1870 William Wood
New Plymouth / Taranaki
- July 18, 1853 - December 13, 1856 Charles Brown
- February 3, 1857 - June / July 1861 George Cutfield
- June / July 1861 - August 8, 1865 Charles Brown
- September 7, 1865 - September 8, 1869 Henry Robert Richmond (1829--1890)
- October 2, 1869 - January 1, 1877 Frederic Alonzo Carrington (1808-1901)
Wellington
- July 2, 1853 - March 14, 1870 Isaac Earl Featherston (1813--1876)
- April 28, 1871 - January 1, 1877 William Fitzherbert (1810-1891)
Westland
- January 17, 1874 - January 1, 1877 James Alexander Bonar (1840-1901)