List of administrative heads of Norfolk Island
The Administrator of Norfolk Island acts as a representative both of The Crown and of the Government of Australia, as well as carrying out other duties according to the Norfolk Island Amendment Act 2015.

List of administrative heads of Norfolk Island

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Table Section Text: The Administrator of Norfolk Island acts as a representative both of The Crown and of the Government of Australia, as well as carrying out other duties according to the Norfolk Island Amendment Act 2015.

Term	Incumbent	Notes

6 March 1788 to 24 March 1790	Philip Gidley King, Lieutenant-Governor	1st term

24 March 1790 to November 1791	Robert Ross, Lieutenant-Governor

4 November 1791 to 29 June 1800	Philip Gidley King, Lieutenant-Governor	2nd term

1796 to 1799	John Townson, Lieutenant-Governor

1799 to 1800	Thomas Rowley, Lieutenant-Governor

29 June 1800 to September 1804	Joseph Foveaux, Lieutenant-Governor

9 September 1804 to January 1810	John Piper, Lieutenant-Governor

January 1810 to February 1814	Tankerville Alexander Crane, Lieutenant-Governor

February 1814 to 6 June 1825	abandoned

6 June 1825 to April 1826	Richard Turton, Commandant

1826 to 1827	Vance Young Donaldson, Commandant

1827 to 1828	Thomas Edward Wright, Commandant

1828 to 1829	Robert Hunt, Commandant

February 1829 to 29 June 1829	Joseph Wakefield, Commandant

29 June 1829 to 1834	James Morisset, Commandant

1834 to 1834	Foster Fyans, Commandant

1834 to 4 November 1839	James Anderson, Commandant

1839 to 1839	Thomas Bunbury, Commandant

1840 to 1840	Thomas Ryan, Commandant

17 March 1840 to 1844	Alexander Maconochie, Commandant

8 February 1844 to 5 August 1846	Joseph Childs, Commandant

1846 to 1853	John Giles Price, Commandant

May 1855 to 8 June 1856	abandoned

1 November 1856	Separate territory, under New South Wales

1856 to 1857	George Martin Frederick Young, Chief Magistrate	1st term

1858 to 1858	Isaac Christian, Chief Magistrate

1859 to 1859	George Martin Frederick Young, Chief Magistrate	2nd term

1860 to 1861	Thomas Buffett, Chief Magistrate

1862 to 1865	Arthur Quintal II, Chief Magistrate	1st term

1866 to 1866	William Quintal, Chief Magistrate	1st term

1867 to 1870	John Buffett, Chief Magistrate	1st term

1871 to 1871	David Buffett, Chief Magistrate

1872 to 1873	William Quintal, Chief Magistrate	2nd term

1874 to 1875	Fletcher Christian Nobbs, Chief Magistrate

1876 to 1880	Francis Mason Nobbs, Chief Magistrate	1st term

1881 to 1882	John Buffett, Chief Magistrate	2nd term

1883 to 1884	Francis Mason Nobbs, Chief Magistrate	2nd term

1885 to 1885	Arthur Quintal II, Chief Magistrate	2nd term

1886 to 1887	Stephen Christian, Chief Magistrate	1st term

1888 to 1888	Henry Seymour Buffett, Chief Magistrate

1889 to 1890	Stephen Christian, Chief Magistrate	2nd term

1891 to 1892	Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams, Chief Magistrate	1st term

1893 to 1893	Stephen Christian, Chief Magistrate	3rd term

1894 to 1894	Francis Mason Nobbs, Chief Magistrate	3rd term

1895 to 1896	Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams, Chief Magistrate	2nd term

1896 to 1898	Warner Wright Spalding, Administrator

1898 to 1903	Charles McArthur King, Administrator

1903 to 1907	Walton Drake, Administrator

1907 to 1913	Charles Sinclair Elliot, Administrator

1 July 1914	Under the Norfolk Island Act 1913

21 August 1913 to 30 August 1920	Michael Vincent Murphy, Administrator	1st term

1 September 1920 to 30 June 1924	John William Parnell, Administrator

1 July 1924 to 16 October 1926	Edwin Thomas Leane, Administrator

1926 to 1926	Henry Stephenson Edgar, Administrator	1st term

1926 to 1 February 1927	Michael Vincent Murphy, Administrator	2nd term

1 February 1927 to 25 January 1928	Victor Conradsdorf Morisset Sellheim, Administrator

25 January 1928 to 6 June 1928	Henry Stephenson Edgar, Administrator	2nd term

6 June 1928 to 21 January 1929	Charles Edward Herbert, Administrator

1 May 1929 to 30 June 1932	Alfred Joshua Bennett, Administrator

1 July 1932 to 3 December 1937	Charles Robert Pinney, Administrator

4 December 1937 to 31 December 1945	Sir Charles Rosenthal, Administrator

1 January 1946 to 31 December 1952	Alexander Wilson, Administrator

1 January 1953 to 30 April 1958	Colin Hugh Boyd Norman, Administrator

1 May 1958 to 1962	Reginald Sylvester Leydin, Administrator

1962 to 1964	Robert Wordsworth, Administrator

1964 to 1966	Roger Nott, Administrator

1966 to June 1968	Reginald Marsh, Administrator

July 1968 to August 1972	Robert Nixon Dalkin, Administrator

August 1972 to 31 August 1975	Edward Thomas Pickerd, Administrator	1st term

1 September 1975 to 31 May 1976	Charles Ivens Buffett, acting Administrator

1 June 1976 to 4 September 1976	Edward Thomas Pickerd, acting Administrator	2nd term

4 September 1976 to 4 September 1979	Desmond Vincent O'Leary, Administrator

Under the Norfolk Island Act 1979

5 September 1979 to 19 March 1981	Peter Coleman, Administrator

19 March 1981 to 10 May 1981	Ian Hutchison, acting Administrator

11 May 1981 to 27 January 1982	Thomas Ferguson Paterson, acting Administrator

28 January 1982 to 28 April 1985	Raymond Edward Trebilco, Administrator

29 April 1985 to 31 December 1988	John Alexander Matthew, Administrator

31 December 1988 to 12 April 1989	William McFadyen Campbell, acting Administrator

13 April 1989 to 12 April 1992	Herbert Bruce MacDonald, Administrator

13 April 1992 to 30 June 1997	Alan Gardner Kerr, Administrator

1 July 1997 to 3 August 1997	Ralph Alexander Condon, acting Administrator

4 August 1997 to 30 July 2003	Anthony John Messner, Administrator

30 July 2003 to 1 November 2003	Michael Stephens, acting Administrator

1 November 2003 to September 2007	Grant Tambling, Administrator

1 October 2007 to 2 October 2008	Owen Walsh, Acting Administrator

2 October 2008 to 1 April 2012	Owen Walsh, Administrator

1 April 2012 to 30 June 2014	Neil Pope, Administrator

1 July 2014 to 31 March 2017	Gary Hardgrave, Administrator

1 April 2017 to present	Eric Hutchinson, Administrator

Sentence(s)

Messner was the administrator of Norfolk Island from August 1997 to July 2003.

final_sentence: Messner was the administrator of Norfolk Island from August 1997 to July 2003.