King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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'''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]]
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