List of Governors of Tasmania Note that Tasmania was called Van Diemen's Land until 1855 (see History of Tasmania).
Governors of the Australian states for a description and history of the office of Governor.
Lieutenant-Governors Colonel David Collins, 1804-1810 Colonel Thomas Davey, 1813-1817 Colonel William Sorell, 1817-1824 Colonel George Arthur , 1824-1836Captain Sir John Franklin , 1837-1843Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1843-1846 Sir William Denison, 1847-1855
Governors Sir Henry Young 1855-1861 Colonel Thomas Browne , 1862-1868Charles Du Cane, 1868-1874 Frederick Weld , 1875-1880Major Sir George Strahan, 1881-1886 Sir Robert Hamilton 1887-1892Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston 1893-1900 Captain Sir Arthur Havelock, 1901-1904 Sir Gerald Strickland , 1904-1909Major-General Sir Harry Barron , 1909-1913Sir William Ellison-Macartney, 1913-1917 Sir Francis Newdegate , 1917-1920Sir William Allardyce, 1920-1922 Captain James O'Grady, 1924-1930 Sir Ernest Clark, 1933-1945 Sir Hugh Binney, 1945-1951 Sir Ronald Cross , 1951-1958Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, 1959-1963 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gairdner , 1963-1968Lieutenant-General Sir Edric Bastyan, 1968-1973 Sir Stanley Burbury, 1973-1982 Sir James Plimsoll, 1982-1987 Sir Phillip Bennett, 1987-1995 Sir Guy Green , 1995-2003Richard Butler 2003-2004 William Cox 2004-
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Often, a governor would have served as a consul or a praetor in Rome before being dispatched, but this was not always the case - less important provinces might be governed by a prefect, and (after the end of the Republic) provinces under direct control of the Emperor would be governed by a legate. In the British Empire a governor was originally an official appointed by the British monarch to oversee one of his colonies. The provinces of Sri Lanka are led by governors .
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