Governor of the Falkland Islands
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Justin A Kuntz
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/* Lieutenant Governor of the Falkland Islands at Anson's Harbour */ Oops, wrong wikilink, corrected it.
{{Politics of the Falkland Islands}}
Nowadays, the '''Governor of the Falkland Islands''' is the local representative of the [[British Crown]] in the [[Falkland Islands]]. Historically, [[Argentina]], [[France]] and [[Spain]] have also had control and local representatives.
==List of Governors==
[[Image:Flag of the Governor of the Falkland Islands.svg|thumb|200px|The current flag of the Governor of the Falkland Islands.]]
===Administrator of the French Settlement of Fort St. Louis===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 1764 || 1767 || [[Antoine Louis de Bougainville]]
|}
===Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Port Egmont===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 1767 || 1768 || [[Captain John McBride]], HMS Jason
|-
| 1768 || 1769 || Capt. [[Rayner]]
|-
| 1769 || 1770 || Capt. [[Anthony Hunt]], HMS Tamar
|-
| 1770 || 1770 || Capt. [[George Farmer]], HMS Favourite
|-
| 1771 || 1772 || Capt. [[John Burr]], HMS Hound
|-
| 1773 || 1776 || Lt. [[Samuel Wittewrong Clayton]]
|}
===Military Administrators of the Spanish Settlement of Port Soledad===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 1767 || 1773 || [[Felipe Ruíz Puente]]
|-
| 1773 || 1774 || [[Domingo Chauria]]
|-
| 1774 || 1777 || [[Francisco Gil Lemos]]
|-
| 1777 || 1779 || [[Ramón de Carassa]]
|-
| 1779 || 1781 || [[Salvador de Medina]]
|-
| 1781 || 1783 || [[Jacinto de Altolaguirre]]
|-
| 1783 || 1784 || [[Fulgencio Montemayor]]
|-
| 1784 || 1786 || [[Augustín Figueroa]]
|-
| 1786 || 1787 || [[Pedro de Mesa y Casto]]
|-
| 1787 || 1788 || [[Ramón Clairac]]
|-
| 1788 || 1789 || [[Pedro de Mesa y Casto]] (second time)
|-
| 1789 || 1790 || [[Ramón Clairac]]
|-
| 1790 || 1791 || [[Juan José de Elizalde]]
|-
| 1791 || 1792 || [[Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto]]
|-
| 1792 || 1793 || [[Juan José de Elizalde]]
|-
| 1793 || 1794 || [[Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto]]
|-
| 1794 || 1795 || [[José Aldana Ortega]]
|-
| 1795 || 1796 || [[Pedro Pablo Sanguinetto]] (second time)
|-
| 1796 || 1797 || [[José Aldana Ortega]]
|-
| 1797 || 1798 || [[Luis de Medina Torres]]
|-
| 1798 || 1799 || [[Francisco Javier de Viana]]
|-
| 1799 || 1800 || [[Luis de Medina Torres]] (second time)
|-
| 1800 || 1801 || [[Francisco Javier de Viana]]
|-
| 1801 || 1802 || [[Ramón Fernández Villegas]]
|-
| 1802 || 1803 || [[Bernardo Bonavía]]
|-
| 1803 || 1804 || [[Antonio Leal de Ibarra]]
|-
| 1804 || 1805 || [[Bernardo Bonavía]]
|-
| 1805 || 1806 || [[Antonio Leal de Ibarra]]
|-
| 1806 || 1809 || [[Bernardo Bonavía]]
|-
| 1809 || 1810 || [[Gerardo Bordas]]
|-
| 1810 || 1811 || [[Pablo Guillén]]
|}
===Argentine Governors of Port Soledad (Port Louis)===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 1823 || 1828 || [[Pablo Areguatyi]]
|-
| 1829 || 1831 || [[Luis Vernet]]
|-
| 1832 || 1832 || [[Juan Esteban Mestivier]]
|}
===Military Administrators of the British Settlement of Fort Louis===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 1833 || 1833 || [[William Dickson (Falklands)|William Dickson]] (interim)
|-
| 1833 || 1838 || Lt. [[Henry Smith (Falkland Islands Governor)|Henry Smith]]
|-
| 1838 || 1839 || Lt. [[Robert Lowcay]]
|-
| 1839 || 1839 || Lt. Robinson
|-
| 1839 || 1841 || Lt. [[John Tyssen]]
|}
===Lieutenant Governor of the Falkland Islands at [[Port Louis, Falkland Islands|Anson's Harbour]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
!
|-
| 1841 || 1843 || Lt. [[Richard Clement Moody]]
|}
===Governor of the Falkland Islands at [[Stanley, Falkland Islands|Port Stanley]]===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 1843 || 1848 || Lt. [[Richard Clement Moody]]
|-
| 1848 || 1855 || Lt. [[George Rennie (sculptor and politician)|George Rennie]]
|-
| 1855 || 1862 || Capt. [[Thomas Edward Laws Moore]]
|-
| 1862 || 1866 || Capt. [[James George Mackenzie]]
|-
| 1866 || 1870 || [[William Cleaver Francis Robinson]], CMG
|-
| 1870 || 1876 || Colonel [[George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy]]
|-
| 1876 || 1880 || [[Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan]]
|-
| 1880 || 1886 || [[Thomas Kerr (governor)|Thomas Kerr]], CMG
|-
| 1886 || 1887 || [[Arthur Cecil Stuart Barkly]]
|-
| 1887 || 1891 || [[Thomas Kerr(governor)|Thomas Kerr]], CMG
|-
| 1891 || 1897 || Sir [[Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy]], KCMG
|-
| 1897 || 1904 || Sir [[William Grey-Wilson]], KCMG
|-
| 1904 || 1915 || Sir [[William Lamond Allardyce]], KCMG
|-
| 1915 || 1920 || Sir [[William Douglas Young]], KBE, CMG
|-
| 1920 || 1927 || Sir [[John Middleton (administrator)|John Middleton]], KBE, CMG
|-
| 1927 || 1931 || Sir [[Arnold Weinholt Hodson]], KCMG
|-
| 1931 || 1934 || Sir [[James O'Grady]], KCMG
|-
| 1935 || 1941 || Sir [[Herbert Henniker-Heaton]], KCMG
|-
| 1941 || 1946 || Sir [[Allan Wolsey Cardinall]], KBE, CMG
|-
| 1946 || 1954 || Sir [[Geoffrey Miles Clifford]], KBE, CMG, ED
|-
| 1954 || 1957 || Sir [[Oswald Raynor Arthur]], KCMG, CVO
|-
| 1957 || 1964 || Sir [[Edwin Porter Arrowsmith]], KCMG
|-
| 1964 || 1970 || Sir [[Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard]], KCMG, MBE
|-
| 1971 || 1975 || Sir [[Ernest Gordon Lewis]], CMG, OBE
|-
| 1975 || 1977 || Sir [[Neville Arthur Irwin French]], CMG, MVO
|-
| 1977 || 1980 || Sir [[James Roland Walter Parker]], CMG, OBE
|-
| 1980 || 2 Apr 1982 || Sir [[Rex Masterman Hunt]], CMG
|}
===Argentine Military Commander at Puerto Argentino===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|+
|-
|2 Apr 1982 || 3 Apr 1982 || General [[Oswaldo Jorge Garcia]] (interim)
|-
|3 Apr 1982 || 14 Jun 1982 || Brigadier General [[Mario Benjamín Menéndez]]
|}
===British Military Commander at Port Stanley===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 14 Jun 1982 || 25 Jun 1982 || Brigadier [[Jeremy Moore|John Jeremy Moore]]
|}
===Civil Commissioner of the Falkland Islands at Port Stanley===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
|25 Jun 1982 || 16 Oct 1985 || Sir [[Rex Masterman Hunt]], CMG
|}
===Governors of the Falkland Islands at Stanley (and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands from 1985)===
{| class="wikitable"
!From
!To
!Name
|-
| 1985 || 1988 || [[Gordon Wesley Jewkes]], CMG
|-
| 1988 || 1992 || [[William Hugh Fullerton]], CMG
|-
| 1992 || 1996 || [[David Everard Tatham]], CMG
|-
| 1996 || 1999 || [[Richard Peter Ralph]], CMG, CVO
|-
| 1999 || 2002 || [[Donald Alexander Lamont]]
|-
|2002 ||2002 || [[Russ Jarvis]] (''acting'')
|-
|2002 ||2006 || [[Howard John Stredder Pearce]], CMG
|-
|2006 ||2006 || [[Harriet Hall]] (''acting'')
|-
|2006 ||present || [[Alan Huckle]]
|}
==External links==
* [http://www.falklands.gov.fk/organisation.php Falkland Islands Government - Organisation]
*[http://www.falklands.info/background/governors.html Falkland Island info]
*[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Falklands.html World Statesmen]
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