List of colonial governors and administrators of Kenya

This page contains a list of chairmen, administrators, commissioners and governors of British colonial Kenya.

The office of Governor of Kenya was replaced by the office of Governor General in 1963 and then later replaced by a President of Kenya, upon Kenya becoming a Republic in 1964. For continuation after independence, see: Heads of state of Kenya.

Imperial British East Africa Company

Chairman

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1. Sir William Mackinnon 3 September 1888 1889

Administrators

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1. George Sutherland Mackenzie 3 Sept 1889 May 1890
2. Francis Walter de Winton May 1890 February 1891
3. George Sutherland Mackenzie February 1891 1891
4. Lloyd Williams Matthews June 1891 February 1892
5. Sir Gerald Herbert Portal February 1892 1893

Caretakers

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1. Greg Martin 1891 June 1891
2. John R.W. Pigott 1893 July 1895

East Africa Protectorate

Commissioners

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1. Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge 1 July 1895 7 Oct 1900
2. Sir Charles Eliot 30 December 1900 20 May 1904
3. Sir Donald William Stewart 1 August 1904 1 October 1905
4. Sir James Hayes Sadler 12 December 1905 31 December 1905

Governors

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1. Sir James Hayes Sadler 31 December 1905 12 April 1909
2. Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard 16 September 1909 17 July 1912
3. Sir Henry Conway Belfield 3 October 1912 14 April 1917
4. Sir Edward Northey 1 February 1919 1920

Caretakers

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1. C.H. Craufurd 7 Oct 1900 30 December 1900
2. Frederick John Jackson 20 May 1904 1 August 1904
3. Frederick John Jackson 1 October 1905 12 December 1905
4. Sir Charles Calvert Bowring 12 April 1909 16 September 1909
5. Sir Charles Calvert Bowring 17 July 1912 3 October 1912
6. Sir Charles Calvert Bowring 14 April 1917 1 February 1919

Colony and Protectorate of Kenya

Governors

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1. Sir Edward Northey 1920 28 August 1922
2. Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon 31 August 1922 10 February 1925
3. Edward William Macleay Grigg 10 February 1925 27 September 1930
4. Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne 13 February 1931 22 December 1936
5. Sir Robert Brooke-Popham 6 April 1937 9 January 1940
6. Sir Philip Euen Mitchell 11 December 1944 21 June 1952
7. Sir Evelyn Baring 30 September 1952 23 October 1959
8. Sir Patrick Muir Renison 23 October 1959 17 November 1962
9. Malcolm MacDonald 4 January 1963 12 December 1963


Caretakers

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1. Edward Denham 10 February 1925 3 October 1925
2. Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore 27 September 1930 13 February 1931
3. Sir Armigel Wade 22 December 1936 6 April 1937
4. Walter Harragin 30 September 1939 9 January 1940
5. Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore 9 January 1940 25 October 1944
6. Gilbert McCall Rennie 25 October 1944 12 December 1944
7. Henry Steven Potter[1] 21 June 1952 29 September 1952
8. Walter Fleming Coutts 4 October 1959 23 October 1959
9. Sir Eric Griffith-Jones 17 November 1962 4 January 1963

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kenya Gazette, 24 June 1952. Kenyan Colonial Government. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
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