List of colonial governors of the British Virgin Islands

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|colspan = "3"|English colony

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|1666|| ||

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|1741||John Pickering|| President

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|1742 to 1750||John Hunt|| President

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|1750 to 1751||James Purcell|| President

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|1751 to 1775||John Purcell|| President

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|1775 to 1782||John Nugent|| President

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|1782 to 1811||...|| President

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|1811 to 18..||Richard Hetherington|| President

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|colspan = "3"|Part of the Leeward Islands

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|1833 to 1839|| ||

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|1839 to 1850||Edward Hay Drummond Hay|| President

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|1852 to 1854||John Cornell Chads|| President

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|1854 to 1857||Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright|| President

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|1859 to 1861||Thomas Price|| President

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|1861 to 1864||James Robert Longden|| President

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|1866 to 1869||Sir Arthur Carlos Henry Rumbold|| President

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|1869 to 1872||Alexander Wilson Muir|| President

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|1873 to 1879||Richard Mahoney Hickson|| President

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|1879 to 1882||John Kemys Spencer-Churchill|| President

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|1882 to 1884||Richard Henry Kortright Dyett|| President

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|1884 to 1887||Fredrick Augustus Pickering|| President

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|1887 to 1893||Edward John Cameron|| Administrator

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|1894 to 1896||Alexander R. Mackay|| Administrator

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|1896 to 1903||Nathaniel George Cookman|| Administrator

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|1903 to 1910||Robert Stephen Earl|| Administrator

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|1910 to 1919||Thomas Leslie Hardtman Jarvis|| Administrator

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|1919 to 1922||Herbert Walter Peebles|| Administrator

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|1922 to 1923||R. Hargrove|| Administrator

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|1923 to 1926||Otho Lewis Hancock|| Administrator

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|1926 to 1934||Frank Cecil Clarkson|| Administrator

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|1934 to 1946||Donald Percy Wailling|| Administrator

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|1946 to 1954||John Augustus Cockburn Cruikshank|| Administrator

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|1954 to 1956||Henry Howard|| Administrator

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|1956 to 1959||Geoffrey Poole Allsebrook|| Administrator

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|1959 to 1 January 1960||Gerald Jackson Bryan|| Administrator

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|1 January 1960||colspan = "3"|Dissolution of the Leeward Islands||

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|1 January 1960 to 1962||Gerald Jackson Bryan|| Administrator

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|1962 to 1967||Martin Samuel Staveley|| Administrator

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|1967 to 1971||John Sutherland Thomson|| Administrator

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|1971 to 1974||Derek George Cudmore|| Governor

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|1974 to 1978||Walter Wilkinson Wallace|| Governor

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|1978 to 1981||James Alfred Davidson|| Governor

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|1982 to 1986||David Robert Barwick|| Governor

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|1986 to 1991||J. Mark A. Herdman|| Governor

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|14 October 1991 to 21 June 1995||Peter Alfred Penfold|| Governor

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|21 June 1995 to 1998||David Mackilligin|| Governor

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|3 July 1998 to 5 October 2002||Frank Savage|| Governor

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|5 October 2002 to 14 October 2002||Elton Georges|| Acting Governor

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|14 October 2002 to 18 April 2006||Tom Macan|| Governor

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|18 April 2006 to 5 August 2010||David Pearey|| Governor

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|20 August 2010 to 1 August 2014||William Boyd McCleary|| Governor

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|15 August 2014 to 22 August 2017||John S. Duncan OBE|| Governor

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|22 August 2017 to present||Augustus Jaspert|| Governor

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