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Governors
(and Lieutenant-Governors) of the Swan River Colony, and the State of Western Australia
James Stirling, Lieutenant-Governor 1828-1832, Governor 1832-1839
John Hutt, 1839-1846
Andrew Clarke, 1846-1847
Frederick Irwin (acting), 1847-1848
Charles Fitzgerald, 1848-1855
Arthur Kennedy, 1855-1862
John Hampton, 1862-1868
Benjamin Pine, 1868-1869
Frederick A. Weld, 1869-1875
William Robinson, 1875-1877
Harry Ord, 1877-1880
William Robinson, 1880-1883
Frederick Napier Broome, 1883-1890
William Robinson, 1890-1895
Gerard Smith, 1895-1901
Arthur Lawley, 1901-1903
Frederick Bedford, 1903-1909
Gerald Strickland, 19909-1913
Harry Barron, 1913-1917
William Ellison-Macartney, 1917-1920
Francis Newdegate, 1920-1924
William Campion, 1924-1931
n/a*, 1931-1948
James Mitchell, 1948-1951
Charles Gairdner, 1951-1963
Douglas Kendrew, 1963-1974
Hughie Edwards, 1974-1975
Wallace Kyle, 1975-1980
Richard Trowbridge, 1980-1983
Gordon Reid, 1984-1989
Francis Burt, 1990-1993
Michael Jeffery, 1993-2000
John Sanderson 2000-2005
Ken Michael, 2006-2011
Malcolm McCusker, 2011-2014
Kerry Sanderson , 2014-2018
Kim Beazley, 2018-present
- The post of Governor was not filled between 1931 and 1948. Sir John Northmore was administrator until 29 June 1932. He was Lieutenant-Governor until 10 July 1933, and was succeeded as Lieutenant-Governor by Sir James Mitchell until 4 October 1948. Mitchell was appointed Governor from 5 October 1948.
References and Links
Government House page for former governors - much better than this one.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 29 June, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/governors.html (it was last updated on 26 July, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.