Proprietary Governors (1610-1728)
| Term |
Name |
Colony |
| 1610-1614 |
John Guy |
Cuper's Cove |
| 1615-1621 |
John Mason |
Cuper's Cove |
| 1618-1628 |
Robert Hayman |
Bristol's Hope |
| 1618-1620 |
Sir
Richard Whitbourne |
Renews |
| 1623-1626 |
Francis Tanfield |
South Falkland |
| 1621-1625 |
Edward Wynne |
Ferryland |
| 1625-1627 |
Sir
Arthur Aston |
Avalon |
| 1627-1629 |
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore |
Avalon |
| 1629-1632 |
Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore* |
Avalon |
| 1634-1638 |
William Hill |
Avalon |
| 1638-1651 |
Sir
David Kirke |
Newfoundland |
| 1653-1660 |
John Treworgie |
Newfoundland |
(*)de facto governor
French Gouverneurs of
Plaisance (1655-1713)
| Term |
Name |
| 1655 |
Sieur de Kéréon |
| 1660 |
Nicolas Gargot |
| 1662-1663 |
Thalour du Perron |
| 1664-1667 |
Bellot dit Lafontaine |
| 1667-1670 |
La Palme |
| 1670-1684 |
La Poippe |
| 1685-1690 |
Antoine Parat |
| 1690-1691 |
Louis de Pastour de Costebelle |
| 1690-1701 |
Jacques-François de Mombeton de Brouillan |
| 1697-1702 |
Joseph de Monic |
| 1702-1706 |
Daniel d'Auger de Subercase |
| 1706-1713 |
Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle |
Commodore-Governors (1729-1825)
| Term |
Name |
| 1729-1730 |
Henry Osborn |
| 1731-1731 |
George Clinton |
| 1732-1732 |
Edward Falkingham |
| 1733-1734 |
Robert MacCarty |
| 1734-1734 |
Viscount Muskerry |
| 1735-1737 |
FitzRoy Henry Lee |
| 1738-1738 |
Philip Vanbrugh |
| 1739-1740 |
Henry Medley |
| 1740-1740 |
George Graham |
| 1741-1741 |
Thomas Smith |
| 1742-1742 |
John Byng |
| 1743-1743 |
Thomas Smith |
| 1744-1744 |
Charles Hardy |
| 1745-1745 |
Richard Edwards |
| 1746-1747 |
(Vacant) |
| 1748-1748 |
Charles Watson |
| 1749-1749 |
George Brydges Rodney |
| 1750-1752 |
Francis William Drake |
| 1753-1754 |
Hugh Bonfoy |
| 1755-1756 |
Richard Dorrill |
| 1757-1759 |
Richard Edwards |
| 1760-1760 |
James Webb |
| 1761-1763 |
Thomas Graves (later
Baron Graves) |
| 1764-1768 |
Sir
Hugh Palliser |
| 1769-1771 |
John Byron |
| 1772-1774 |
Molyneux Shuldham |
| 1775-1775 |
Richard Duff |
| 1776-1778 |
John Montagu |
| 1779-1781 |
Richard Edwards |
| 1782-1785 |
John Campbell |
| 1786-1788 |
John Elliott |
| 1789-1791 |
Mark Milbanke |
| 1792-1793 |
Sir
Richard King |
| 1794-1796 |
Sir
James Wallace |
| 1797-1799 |
William Waldegrave |
| 1800-1801 |
Sir
Charles Morice Pole |
| 1802-1803 |
James Gambier |
| 1804-1806 |
Sir
Erasmus Gower |
| 1807-1809 |
John Holloway |
| 1810-1812 |
Sir
John Thomas Duckworth |
| 1813-1816 |
Sir
Richard Goodwin Keats |
| 1817-1818 |
Francis Pickmore |
| 1818-1825 |
Sir
Charles Hamilton |
Civil
Governors (1825-1855)
| Term |
Name |
| 1825-1834 |
Sir
Thomas John Cochrane |
| 1834-1841 |
Sir
Henry Prescott |
| 1841-1846 |
Sir
John Harvey |
| 1846-1847 |
John Law |
| 1847-1852 |
Sir
John Gaspard LeMerchant |
| 1852-1855 |
Ker Baillie Hamilton |
For
Prime Ministers since the establishment of
responsible government in 1855 see
List of Newfoundland Prime Ministers.
Colonial and
Dominion
Governors (1855-1934)
| Term |
Name |
| 1855-1857 |
Sir
Charles Henry Darling |
| 1857-1864 |
Sir
Alexander Bannerman |
| 1864-1869 |
Sir
Anthony Musgrave |
| 1869-1876 |
Sir
Stephen John Hill |
| 1876-1881 |
Sir
John Hawley Glover |
| 1881-1883 |
Sir
Henry F. B. Maxse |
| 1883-1885 |
Sir
John Hawley Glover |
| 1886-1887 |
Sir
George William Des Voeux |
| 1887-1889 |
Sir
Henry Arthur Blake |
| 1889-1895 |
Sir
John Terence N. O'Brien |
| 1895-1898 |
Sir
Herbert Harley Murray |
| 1898-1901 |
Sir
Henry Edward McCallum |
| 1901-1904 |
Sir
Cavendish Boyle |
| 1904-1909 |
Sir
William Macgregor |
| 1909-1913 |
Sir
Ralph Champneys Williams |
| 1913-1917 |
Sir
Walter Edward Davidson |
| 1917-1922 |
Sir
Charles A. Harris |
| 1922-1928 |
Sir
William L. Allardyce |
| 1928-1932 |
Sir John Middleton |
| 1933-1934 |
Sir
David Murray Anderson |
Commission Governors (1934-1949)
| Term |
Name |
| 1934-1935 |
Sir
David Murray Anderson |
| 1936-1946 |
Sir
Humphrey T. Walwyn |
| 1946-1949 |
Sir
Gordon MacDonald |
Post-Confederation
Lieutenant-Governors (1949-present)
| Term |
Name |
| 1949-1949 |
Sir
Albert Walsh |
| 1949-1957 |
Sir
Leonard Cecil Outerbridge |
| 1957-1963 |
Campbell Leonard Macpherson |
| 1963-1969 |
Fabian O'Dea |
| 1969-1974 |
Ewart John Arlington Harnum |
| 1974-1981 |
Gordon Arnaud Winter |
| 1981-1986 |
William Anthony Paddon |
| 1986-1991 |
James Aloysius McGrath |
| 1991-1997 |
Frederick Russell |
| 1997-2002 |
Dr.
Arthur Maxwell House |
| 2002- |
Edward Roberts |
