King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands 890114 225392651 2008-07-13T13:03:33Z JackofOz 33566 dates '''King of the Cocos Islands''' was a title given by the press to '''John Clunies-Ross''', a [[Scotland|Scottish]] sea captain. He went to live on the [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]] in [[1827]]. [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] granted the islands in perpetuity to the Clunies-Ross family in 1886. Thus, the title to the islands was claimed by his descendants until [[1978]] when John Cecil Clunies-Ross (King Ross V) sold the islands to the [[Australia|Commonwealth of Australia]], which had already been administering them since [[1955]]. Ross V currently lives in [[Perth, Western Australia]] but his son John George Clunies-Ross (born 1957) lives on [[West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands|West Island]]. == List of Kings of the Cocos Islands == {| table class="wikitable" !'''Order''' !'''King''' !'''Reign''' !'''Lived''' |- |1.||John Clunies-Ross (Ross I)||[[1827]]-[[26 May]] [[1854]]||[[1786]]-[[26 May]] [[1854]] |- |2.||John George Clunies-Ross (Ross II)||[[1854]]-[[1871]]||[[1823]]-[[1872]] |- |3.||George Clunies-Ross (Ross III)||[[1872]]-[[7 July]] [[1910]]||[[20 June]] [[1842]]-[[7 July]] [[1910]] |- |4.||Sydney Clunies-Ross (Ross IV)||[[1910]]-[[14 August]] [[1944]]||[[1868]]-[[14 August]] [[1944]] |- |5.||John Cecil Clunies-Ross (Ross V)||[[1944]]-[[1978]]||b. [[1928]] |} ==External links== *[http://uqconnect.net/~zzhsoszy/states/oceania/cocosislands.html Cocos Island page at Genealogical Gleanings] *[http://www.abc.net.au/dynasties/txt/s1223072.htm Clunies-Ross Dynasty] *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6730047.stm The man who lost a 'coral kingdom'] [[Category:Cocos (Keeling) Islands]] [[Category:Historic monarchies]] [[Category:1827 establishments]] [[Category:1978 disestablishments]] [[de:Clunies-Ross]]