| Term
|
Incumbent
|
Title
|
Notes
|
| 6 March 1788 to 24 March 1790 |
Philip Gidley King |
Lieutenant-Governor |
1st term
|
| 24 March 1790 to November 1791 |
Robert Ross |
|
| 4 November 1791 to 29 June 1800 |
Philip Gidley King |
2nd term
|
| 1796 to 1799 |
John Townson |
|
| 1799 to 1800 |
Thomas Rowley |
|
| 29 June 1800 to September 1804 |
Joseph Foveaux |
|
| 9 September 1804 to January 1810 |
John Piper |
|
| January 1810 to February 1814 |
Tankerville Alexander Crane |
|
| February 1814 to 6 June 1825 |
abandoned
|
| 6 June 1825 to April 1826 |
Richard Turton |
Commandant |
|
| 1826 to 1827 |
Vance Young Donaldson |
|
| 1827 to 1828 |
Thomas Edward Wright |
|
| 1828 to 1829 |
Robert Hunt |
|
| February 1829 to 29 June 1829 |
Joseph Wakefield |
|
| 29 June 1829 to 1834 |
James Morisset |
|
| 1834 to 1834 |
Foster Fyans |
|
| 1834 to 4 November 1839 |
Joseph Anderson |
|
| 1839 to 1839 |
Thomas Bunbury |
|
| 1840 to 1840 |
Thomas Ryan |
|
| 17 March 1840 to 1844 |
Alexander Maconochie |
|
| 8 February 1844 to 5 August 1846 |
Joseph Childs |
|
| 1846 to 1853 |
John Giles Price |
|
| May 1855 to 8 June 1856 |
abandoned
|
| June 1856 |
Separated from Van Diemen's Land and made a Distinct and Separate Settlement. (Pitcairn Agreement with Her Majesty Queen Victoria). A Governor (Crown) was appointed to administer the Government of Norfolk Island
|
| 1856 to 1857 |
George Martin Frederick Young |
Chief Magistrate |
1st term
|
| 1858 to 1858 |
Isaac Christian |
|
| 1859 to 1859 |
George Martin Frederick Young |
2nd term
|
| 1860 to 1861 |
Thomas Buffett |
|
| 1862 to 1865 |
Arthur Quintal II |
1st term
|
| 1866 to 1866 |
William Quintal |
1st term
|
| 1867 to 1870 |
John Buffett |
1st term
|
| 1871 to 1871 |
David Buffett |
|
| 1872 to 1873 |
William Quintal |
2nd term
|
| 1874 to 1875 |
Fletcher Christian Nobbs |
|
| 1876 to 1880 |
Francis Mason Nobbs |
1st term
|
| 1881 to 1882 |
John Buffett |
2nd term
|
| 1883 to 1884 |
Francis Mason Nobbs |
2nd term
|
| 1885 to 1885 |
Arthur Quintal II |
2nd term
|
| 1886 to 1887 |
Stephen Christian |
1st term
|
| 1888 to 1888 |
Henry Seymour Buffett |
|
| 1889 to 1890 |
Stephen Christian |
2nd term
|
| 1891 to 1892 |
Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams |
1st term
|
| 1893 to 1893 |
Stephen Christian |
3rd term
|
| 1894 to 1894 |
Francis Mason Nobbs |
3rd term
|
| 1895 to 1896 |
Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams |
2nd term
|
| 1896 to 1898 |
Warner Wright Spalding |
Administrator |
|
| 1898 to 1903 |
Charles McArthur King |
|
| 1903 to 1907 |
Walton Drake |
|
| 1907 to 1913 |
Charles Sinclair Elliot |
|
| 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 |
|
| 1 July 1924 to 16 October 1926 |
Edwin Thomas Leane |
|
| 1926 to 1926 |
Henry Stephenson Edgar |
1st term
|
| 1926 to 1 February 1927 |
Michael Vincent Murphy |
2nd term
|
| 1 February 1927 to 25 January 1928 |
Victor Conradsdorf Morisset Sellheim |
|
| 25 January 1928 to 6 June 1928 |
Henry Stephenson Edgar |
2nd term
|
| 6 June 1928 to 21 January 1929 |
Charles Edward Herbert |
|
| 1 May 1929 to 30 June 1932 |
Alfred Joshua Bennett |
|
| 1 July 1932 to 3 December 1937 |
Charles Robert Pinney |
|
| 4 December 1937 to 31 December 1945 |
Sir Charles Rosenthal |
|
| 1 January 1946 to 31 December 1952 |
Alexander Wilson |
|
| 1 January 1953 to 30 April 1958 |
Colin Hugh Boyd Norman |
|
| 1 May 1958 to 1962 |
Reginald Sylvester Leydin |
|
| 1962 to 1964 |
Robert Wordsworth |
|
| 1964 to 1966 |
Roger Nott |
|
| 1966 to June 1968 |
Reginald Marsh |
|
| July 1968 to August 1972 |
Robert Nixon Dalkin |
|
| August 1972 to 31 August 1975 |
Edward Thomas Pickerd |
1st term
|
| 1 September 1975 to 31 May 1976 |
Charles Ivens Buffett |
Acting Administrator |
|
| 1 June 1976 to 4 September 1976 |
Edward Thomas Pickerd |
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 |
|
| 28 January 1982 to 28 April 1985 |
Raymond Edward Trebilco |
Administrator |
|
| 29 April 1985 to 31 December 1988 |
John Alexander Matthew |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 1 July 2014 to 31 March 2017 |
Gary Hardgrave |
|
| 1 April 2017 to 31 May 2023 |
Eric Hutchinson |
|
| 1 June 2023 to present |
George Plant |
|
