PAST GOVERNORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 69, 22 March 1930, Page 13

PAST GOVERNORS.

HOBSON TO rERGUSSON. . COMPLETE.OFFICIAL LIST. -j t — | The- following i? a list, taken from the Official Year, Book, .of all the ViceRegal representatives' . who have, held office in New Zealand:— / , > Captain William Hobson,R.N., Lieu-tenant-Governor of New Zealand under Sir George, Gipps,. of New South Wales, from January 1840, to May 3, 1841, and Governor of New Zealand from May 3, 1841, :to date of death, September. 10, 1842. . - 'r « / . " • ' ' Captain Robert - Fitzroy, R.N., from December 26, 1843, to November 17, 1845. Captain: George Grey, who became Sir George Grey, K.C.8.,, in 1848, Governor from November '18, .1845, to January- lj 1848; Governor in Chief, over the Islands of New Zealand, Governor of the Province of New Ulster (North Island), and Governor of the Province of New Munster (South Island) from January 1, 1848, to March 7,1853; Governor of New

Zealand from March 7, 1853, to December 31, 1853. "> . " , Edward Johj. Eyre, Lieutenant ; Governor of New Munster from January 28, 1848, until duties-of Lieutenant-Gover-nor cea?ed on March 7,1858. " ' I-Major-General George Dean Pitt, Lieutenant-Governor of New Ulster from' February 14, IS4B, until date, of death, January 8, 1851. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard,. C.8.,. Lieutenant-Governor of New Ulster from April, 2G, 1851, until March 7, 1853. ~ ' Colonel Thomas -Gore Brown, from .September 6, 1855, to October 2, 1861. Sir George Ferguson" Bowen, from February 5,'1868, to March 19, 1873.' Sir . James Fel-gusson, from June 14, 1873, to December. 3„ 1874.. • , The Marquis, of , Normanby, from January 9, 1875, to February 21, 1879. *• The Hon. Sir > Arthur Hamilton Gordon, from November 29, 1880, to June 23, IS B2. • , ~; , ,■) Lieutenant-General'. Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, from January 20, 1883,'to.March 22> 1889. ■ •' •' ' '. The Earl of Onslow, from -May 2, 1889, to February 24, 1892. - ' The Earl'; of - Glasgow, from June; 7, 1892, to February 6, 1897. -

The Earl of Ranfurly, from August 10, 1897, to June 19, 1904. - • ; Baron.Plunket, from June 20, 1904, to June 8, 1910. : 1 Baron Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0.," "from June 22, 1910, to December 2, 1912. The Earl of -Liverpool, Governor from> December 19, 1912; Governor-General from June 28, 1917, to July 7, "1920. Viscount Jellicoe of GovernorGeneral from. September 27, 1920, to November," 25, 1924. • "••• ' '" • ' • General Sir Charles Fergusson, Gover-nor-GeneraL f rom December 13, 1924, to February 8, 1930; v >'