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:

TitleAppointedName  1634  Sir Philippe de Carteret (Royalist)  26 August 1643 Major Lydcott (Parliament)  24 November 1643Sir George Carteret (Royalist)at least by 1689Edward Harris 3 March 1695Col. Thomas CollierBertrand, J (1859) Armorial of Jersey : being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added, a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediæval antiquities of the island. Boston Public Library. p. 19 29 July 1715Robert Wilson 1723Magnus Kempenfelt   23 October 1727Col. George Howard 1732Peter Bettesworth 1738Maj-Gen. Jean Cavalier 1741Francis Best 1747Gregory Beake 12 August 1749William Deane 26 June 1753George ColingwoodLieutenant 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, CBLieutenant 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. FreemanLieutenant 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 2017Air Chf Mshl Sir Stephen Dalton, GCB

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