List of colonial governors and administrators of Seychelles
Table:
Term

Incumbent

Notes

French Suzerainty

Claimed for France by Lazare Picault, named Îles de La Bourdonnais

Subordinated to Île de France (Mauritius)

1744 to 1 November 1756
None

Annexed by France (Îles de Séchelles), not settled until 27 August 1770

1 November 1756 to 27 August 1770
None

27 August 1770 to 1772
Jean-Charles de Launay de La Perrière, Commandant

1772 to 1775
Joseph François Eugène Benjamin Anselme, Commandant

1775 to 1777
Jean-Baptiste Le Roux de Kermeseven, Commandant

1778 to 1781
Charles Routier de Romainville, Commandant

1781 to 1783
Louis François Claude Berthelot de la Coste, Commandant

1783 to 1786
François, vicomte de Souillac, Commandant

1786 to 1789
Augustin Motais de Narbonne, Commandant

1789 to 1792
Louis Jean Baptiste Philogène de Malavois, Commandant

1792 to 1793
Charles Joseph Esnouf, Commandant

9 September 1793 to 17 May 1794
Jean-Baptiste Quéau de Quincy, Governor

Îles de Séchelles occupied by United Kingdom (French administration continues to 17 May 1810)

17 May 1794 to 17 May 1810
Jean-Baptiste Quéau de Quincy, Governor

British Suzerainty

British colony (subordinated to Mauritius)

17 May 1810 to 2 June 1811
Jean-Baptiste Quéau de Quincy, Commissioner

2 June 1811 to 1812
Bartholomew Sullivan, Commissioner

1812 to 1815
Bibye Lasage, Commissioner

1815 to 1822
Edward Henry Madge, Commissioner

1822 to 1837
George Harrison, Commissioner

1837 to 1839
Arthur Wilson, Commissioner

1839 to 1850
Charles Augustus Etienne Mylius, Commissioner

1850 to 1852
Robert William Keate, Commissioner

1852 to 1862
Charles William Bhering, Viscount Bhering, Commissioner

1862 to 1868
Swinburne Ward, Commissioner

1868 to 1874
William Hales Franklyn, Commissioner

1874 to 1879
Charles Spencer Salmon, Commissioner

1879 to 1880
Arthur Elibank Havelock, Commissioner

1880 to 1882
Francis Theophilus Blunt, Commissioner

1882 to 1888
Arthur Cecil Stuart Barkly, Commissioner

1889 to 1895
Thomas Risely Griffith, Administrator

1895 to August 1899
Henry Cockburn Stewart, Administrator

August 1899 to 31 August 1903
Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott, Administrator

British crown colony

31 August 1903 to November 1903
Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott, Administrator

November 1903 to 1904
Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott, Governor

1904 to 1912
Walter Edward Davidson, Governor

1912 to 1918
Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, Governor

1918 to 1922
Sir Eustace Edward Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Governor

1922 to 1927
Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne, Governor

May 1927 to November 1927
Sir Malcolm Stevenson, Governor

November 1927 to March 1928
Sir Justin Louis Devaux, Acting Governor[1]

March 1928
Robert Vere de Vere, Acting Governor
sworn in 22 March 1928 as Louis Devaux had refused to relinquish power[1]

1928 to 1934
Sir de Symons Montagu George Honey, Governor

1934 to 1936
Sir Gordon James Lethem, Governor

1936 to 5 January 1942
Arthur Francis Grimble, Governor
From 1 January 1938, Sir Arthur Francis Grimble

5 January 1942 to July 1947
William Marston Logan, Governor
From 8 June 1944, Sir William Marston Logan. John Woodman OBE (Chief Justice, 1943-47) acted as Governor in 1946.[2]

July 1947 to 14 May 1951
Sir Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, Governor

14 May 1951 to 1953
Frederick Crawford, Governor

31 May 1953 to January 1958
William Addis, Governor
From 9 June 1955, Sir William Addis

January 1958 to 13 August 1961
John Kingsmill Thorp, Governor
From 13 June 1959, Sir John Kingsmill Thorp

January 1962 to 1967
The 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Governor

1967 to 1969
Sir Hugh Selby Norman-Walker, Governor

1969 to 12 November 1970
Sir Bruce Greatbatch, Governor

Autonomy granted to the Seychelles

12 November 1970 to 1973
Sir Bruce Greatbatch, Governor

1973 to 1 October 1975
Colin Hamilton Allan, Governor

Self-rule granted to the Seychelles

1 October 1975 to 28 June 1976
Colin Hamilton Allan, High Commissioner

29 June 1976
Independence as Republic of Seychelles

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