List of colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus


This article lists the colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus.
Hitherto Ottoman Cyprus, a territory of the Ottoman Empire, a British protectorate under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878. The United Kingdom declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914 and annexed Cyprus. Turkey recognised British possession of Cyprus by the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923 and the island became a Crown Colony on 10 March 1925. Following the London and Zurich Agreements of 19 February 1959 Cyprus became an independent republic on 16 August 1960, and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1961.

List of High Commissioners (1878–1925)

Name
PortraitFromTo
Lord John Hay
12 July 187822 July 1878
Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley
22 July 187823 June 1879
Sir Robert Biddulph
23 June 18799 March 1886
Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer
9 March 18865 April 1892
Sir Walter Joseph Sendall
5 April 189223 April 1898
Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
23 April 189817 October 1904
Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman
17 October 190412 October 1911
Hamilton Goold-Adams
12 October 19118 January 1915
Sir John Eugene Clauson
8 January 191531 December 1918
Sir Malcolm Stevenson
31 December 1918
10 March 1925

List of Governors (1925–1960)

Name
PortraitFromTo
Sir Malcolm Stevenson
10 March 192530 November 1926
Sir Ronald Storrs
30 November 192629 October 1932
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
29 October 19328 November 1933
Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer
8 November 19334 July 1939
William Denis Battershill
4 July 19393 October 1941
Charles Campbell Woolley
3 October 194124 October 1946
Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster
24 October 19464 August 1949
Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright
4 August 19491954
Sir Robert Perceval Armitage
195425 September 1955
Sir John Alan Francis Harding
25 September 195522 October 1957
Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot
3 December 195716 August 1960

Deputy Governors