Lieutenant Governor of Jersey

The **Lieutenant Governor of Jersey** (, Jèrriais: _Gouvèrneux d'Jèrri_) is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Jersey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown.

## List of lieutenant governors of Jersey

Lieutenant Governors of Jersey have been:

|Title|Appointed|Name|
| --- | --- | --- |
||1634|Sir Philippe de Carteret (Royalist)|
||26 August 1643|Major Lydcott (Parliament)|
||24 November 1643|Sir George Carteret (Royalist)|
||at least by 1689|Edward Harris|
||3 March 1695|Col. Thomas Collier|
||29 July 1715|Robert Wilson|
||1723|Magnus Kempenfelt|
||23 October 1727|Col. George Howard|
||1732|Peter Bettesworth|
||1738|Maj-Gen. Jean Cavalier|
||1741|Francis Best|
||1747|Gregory Beake|
||12 August 1749|William Deane|
||26 June 1753|George Colingwood|
|Lieutenant Governor and Colonel on Staff:|7 July 1770|Lt-Col. Rudolph Bentinck (acting)|
||4 April 1771|Major Moses Corbet|
||6 January 1781|Major Francis Peirson|
||5 October 1797|Lt-Gen. Andrew Gordon|
||21 June 1806|Gen. Sir George Don, GCB, GCH|
||8 October 1814|Gen. Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, GCH|
||9 May 1816|Lt-Gen. Hugh Mackay Gordon|
||23 July 1821|Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, GCB, GCH, GCTE|
||26 November 1830|Lt-Gen. Sir William Thornton, KCB|
||22 April 1835|Maj-Gen. Archibald Campbell, CB|
||14 September 1838|Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Gibbs, KCB|
||16 January 1847|Maj-Gen. Sir James Henry Reynett, KCB, KCH|
||30 April 1852|Gen. Sir James Frederick Love, GCB, KH|
||30 January 1857|Maj-Gen. Godfrey Charles Mundy|
||18 September 1860|Maj-Gen. Sir Robert Percy Douglas|
||5 October 1862|B. Loch (acting)|
||23 October 1863|Lt-Gen. Sir Burke Douglas Cuppage, KCB|
||1 October 1868|Maj-Gen. Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy, CB|
||1 October 1873|Lt-Gen. Sir William Sherbrooke Ramsay Norcott, KCB|
||1 October 1878|Lt-Gen. Lothian Nicholson, CB|
||1 October 1883|Maj-Gen. Henry Wray, CMG|
||1 November 1887|Lt-Gen. Charles Brisbane Ewart, CB|
|Lieutenant Governor and Commanding the Troops:|1 November 1892|Lt-Gen. Sir Edwin Markham, KCB|
||10 May 1895|Lt-Gen. Sir Edward Hopton, KCB|
||1 November 1900|Maj-Gen. Henry Richard Abadie, CB|
||1904|Maj-Gen. Hugh Sutlej Gough, CB, CMG|
||16 June 1910|Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander Nelson Rochfort, KCB, CMG|
||7 October 1916|Maj-Gen. Sir Alexander Wilson, KCB|
||29 October 1920|Maj-Gen. Sir William Douglas Smith, KCB, KCVO|
||1924|Maj-Gen. Sir Francis Richard Bingham, KCB, KCMG, JP|
||28 May 1929|Maj-Gen. Edward Henry Willis, CB, CMG|
||28 May 1934|Maj-Gen. Sir Horace de Courcy Martelli, KBE, CB, DSO|
||1939|Maj-Gen. James Murray Robert Harrison, CB DSO|
|(German Occupation 1940–1945)|||
|Head of the British Military Government:|12 May 1945|L.A. Freeman|
|Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief:|25 August 1945|Lt-Gen. Sir Arthur Edward Grasett, KBE, CB, DSO, MC|
||16 October 1953|Adm. Sir Randolph Stewart Gresham Nicholson, KBE, CB, DSO, DSC|
||15 November 1958|Gen. Sir George Erskine, GCB, KBE, DSO|
||15 January 1964|Vice-Adm. Sir John Michael Villiers, KCB, OBE|
||30 June 1969|Air Chf Mshl Sir John Gilbert Davis, GCB, OBE, MA|
||2 September 1974|Gen. Sir Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick, GCB, DSO, MBE, MC|
||26 November 1979|Gen. Sir Peter John Frederick Whiteley, GCB, OBE|
||9 January 1985|Adm. Sir William Thomas Pillar, GBE, KCB|
||1990|Air Mshl Sir John Matthias Dobson Sutton, KCB|
||September 1995|Gen. Sir Michael John Wilkes, KCB, OBE|
||24 January 2001|Air Chf Mshl Sir John Cheshire, KBE, CB|
||1 April 2006|Lt-Gen Sir Andrew Ridgway, KBE, CB|
||26 September 2011|Gen. Sir John McColl, KCB, CBE, DSO|
||13 March 2017|Air Chf Mshl Sir Stephen Dalton, GCB|

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
- **flag**: Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.svg
- **flagsize**: 150px
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
- **insignia**: Coat of Arms of Jersey.svg
- **insigniasize**: 100px
- **insigniacaption**: Coat of arms of Jersey
- **image**: Stephen Dalton cadets (cropped).jpg
- **imagesize**: 150px
- **incumbent**: Air Chief Marshal Stephen Dalton, Sir Stephen Dalton, GCB, ADC
- **incumbentsince**: 13 March 2017
- **style**: His Excellency
- **residence**: Government House, Jersey, Government House
- **appointer**: Monarchy of the United Kingdom
- **termlength**: Five years
- **formation**: 1502
- **first**: Sir Hugh Vaughan
(as Governor of Jersey)