RULERS OF GIBRALTAR
Gibraltar
20 Aug 1462 part of Castile/Spain
24 Jul 1704 British occupation
13 Jul 1713 Spain cedes Gibraltar to Britain
20 Jun 1830 British crown colony
Military commander
24 Jul 1704 - 4 Aug 1704 Sir George Rooke (b. 1650 - d. 1709)
Governors
4 Aug 1704 - 14 Sep 1705 Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1669 - d. 1705)
24 Dec 1707 - 24 Jan 1711 Roger Elliott (b. c.1665 - d. 1714)
24 Jan 1711 - 7 Aug 1713 Thomas Stanwix (b. c.1670 - d. 1725)
7 Aug 1713 - 20 Oct 1720 David Colyear, Earl of Portmore (b. c.1656 - d. 1730)
20 Oct 1720 - 2 Feb 1727 Richard Kane (b. 1666 - d. 1736)
2 Feb 1727 - 13 May 1730 Jasper Clayton (b. 1675 - d. 1743)
15 May 1730 - 24 Oct 1739 Joseph Sabine (b. 1662 - d. 1739)
24 Oct 1739 - 22 Apr 1740 Francis Columbine
22 Apr 1740 - 1749 William Hargrave
1749 - 31 May 1754 Sir Humphrey Bland (b. c.1686 - d. 1763)
31 May 1754 - 12 Jul 1756 Thomas Fowke
12 Jul 1756 - 16 Apr 1757 James O'Hara, Earl of Tyrawley (b. c.1682 - d. 1773)
16 Apr 1757 - 28 Apr 1761 William Home, Earl of Home (b. 1681 - d. 1761)
28 Apr 1761 - 23 Jun 1761 John Toovey (acting)
13 Jun 1761 - 14 Jun 1761 John Parslow (acting)
14 Jun 1761 - Jan 1776 Edward Cornwallis (b. 1713 - d. 1776)
Jan 1776 - 25 May 1777 Robert Boyd (1st time) (acting) (b. 1710 - d. 1794)
25 May 1777 - Jul 1790 George Augustus Eliott, (from
14 Jun 1787) Baron Heathfield of
Gibraltar (b. 1717 - d. 1790)
Jul 1790 - 13 May 1794 Sir Robert Boyd (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting to Oct 1790)
13 May 1794 - 30 Dec 1795 Charles Rainsford (b. 1728 - d. 1809)
30 Dec 1795 - 25 Feb 1802 Charles O'Hara (b. 1740 - d. 1802)
25 Feb 1802 - 10 May 1802 Charles Barnett
24 May 1802 - 23 Jan 1820 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (b. 1767 - d. 1820)
Acting for Edward:
2 May 1803 - 17 Dec 1804 Sir Thomas Trigge (b. 17... - d. 1814)
17 Dec 1804 - Jun 1806 Henry Edward Fox (b. 1755 - d. 1811)
Jun 1806 - Nov 1806 James Drummond (1st time)
Nov 1806 - Aug 1808 Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple (b. 1750 - d. 1830)
Aug 1808 - May 1809 James Drummond (2nd time)
May 1809 - Aug 1809 Sir John Francis Cradock (b. 1762 - d. 1839)
Aug 1809 - Oct 1809 John Smith
Oct 1809 - Nov 1809 Alex McKenzie Fraser (b. 1756 - d. 1809)
Nov 1809 - 2 Apr 1814 (Sir) Colin Campbell (b. 1754 - d. 1814)
3 Apr 1814 - 15 Nov 1821 Sir George Don (1st time) (b. 1754 - d. 1832)
29 Jan 1820 - 24 Sep 1835 John Pitt, Earl of Chatham (b. 1756 - d. 1835)
Acting for Pitt:
7 Jun 1825 - 10 May 1831 Sir George Don (2nd time) (s.a.)
10 May 1831 - 29 May 1835 Sir William Houstoun
28 Feb 1835 - 11 Oct 1842 Sir Alexander George Woodford (b. 1782 - d. 1870)
(lieutenant governor to 1 Sep 1836)
11 Oct 1842 - 12 Dec 1848 Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (b. 1777 - d. 1849)
12 Dec 1848 - 26 Jul 1855 Sir Robert William Gardiner (b. 1781 - d. 1864)
26 Jul 1855 - 5 May 1859 Sir James Fergusson (b. 1787 - d. 1865)
5 May 1859 - 21 Sep 1865 Sir William John Codrington (b. 1804 - d. 1884)
21 Sep 1865 - 25 Jul 1870 Sir Richard Airey (b. 1803 - d. 1881)
25 Jul 1870 - 23 Jun 1876 Sir William Fenwick Williams (b. 1800 - d. 1883)
23 Jun 1876 - 3 Jan 1883 Robert Cornelis Napier, Baron
Napier of Magdala (b. 1810 - d. 1890)
3 Jan 1883 - 2 Nov 1886 Sir John Miller Adye (b. 1819 - d. 1900)
2 Nov 1886 - 23 Aug 1890 Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge (b. 1828 - d. 1892)
23 Aug 1890 - 27 Jan 1891 Sir Leicester Curzon Smyth (b. 1829 - d. 1891)
27 Jan 1891 - 31 Mar 1891 H.R.L. Newdigate (acting) (b. 1832 - d. 1908)
31 Mar 1891 - 27 Jun 1893 Sir Lothian Nicholson (b. 1827 - d. 1893)
27 Jun 1893 - 7 Aug 1893 G.J. Smart (acting)
7 Aug 1893 - 22 May 1900 Sir Robert Biddulph (b. 1835 - d. 1918)
22 May 1900 - 1 Aug 1905 Sir George Stuart White (b. 1835 - d. 1912)
1 Aug 1905 - 30 Jul 1910 Sir Frederick William Edward
Forestier Forestier-Walker (b. 1844 - d. 1910)
30 Jul 1910 - 11 Jul 1913 Sir Archibald Hunter (b. 1856 - d. 1936)
11 Jul 1913 - 9 Jul 1918 Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles (b. 1850 - d. 1926)
9 Jul 1918 - 26 May 1923 Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (b. 1858 - d. 1930)
26 May 1923 - 13 Aug 1928 Sir Charles Carmichael Monro (b. 1860 - d. 1929)
13 Aug 1928 - 13 May 1933 Sir Alexander John Godley (b. 1867 - d. 1957)
13 May 1933 - 12 Aug 1938 Sir Charles Harington Harington (b. 1872 - d. 1940)
12 Aug 1938 - 11 Jul 1939 Sir Edmund Ironside (b. 1880 - d. 1959)
11 Jul 1939 - 14 May 1941 Sir Clive Gerard Liddell (b. 1883 - d. 1956)
14 May 1941 - 31 May 1942 John Vereker, Viscount Gort (b. 1886 - d. 1946)
31 May 1942 - 14 Feb 1944 Noel Mason-Macfarlane (from 1943,
Sir Noel Mason-Macfarlane) (b. 1889 - d. 1953)
14 Feb 1944 - 8 Feb 1947 Sir Ralph Eastwood (b. 1890 - d. 1959)
8 Feb 1947 - 23 Apr 1952 Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson (b. 1891 - d. 1959)
23 Apr 1952 - 6 May 1955 Sir George Holmes Alexander
MacMillan of MacMillan (b. 1897 - d. 1986)
6 May 1955 - 16 Apr 1958 Sir Harold Redman (b. 1899 - d. 1986)
16 Apr 1958 - 8 Jun 1962 Sir Charles Frederic Keightley (b. 1901 - d. 1974)
8 Jun 1962 - 5 Aug 1965 Sir Alfred Dudley Ward (b. 1905 - d. 1991)
5 Aug 1965 - Mar 1969 Sir Gerald William Lathbury (b. 1906 - d. 1978)
Mar 1969 - 3 Oct 1973 Sir Varyl Cargill Begg (b. 1908 - d. 1995)
3 Oct 1973 - 30 May 1978 Sir John Grandy (b. 1913 - d. 2004)
30 May 1978 - 26 Oct 1982 Sir William Jackson (b. 1917 - d. 1999)
26 Oct 1982 - 19 Nov 1985 Sir David Williams (b. 1921)
19 Nov 1985 - Dec 1989 Sir Peter Terry (b. 1926)
Dec 1989 - Mar 1993 Sir Derek Reffell (b. 1928)
Apr 1993 - 5 Dec 1995 Sir John Chapple (b. 1931)
5 Dec 1995 - 19 Feb 1997 Sir Hugo White (b. 1939)
24 Feb 1997 - 5 Apr 2000 Sir Richard Luce (b. 1936)
5 Apr 2000 - 16 May 2003 David Durie (from 1 Jan 2003,
Sir David Durie) (b. 1944)
16 May 2003 - 27 May 2003 David Blunt (acting) (b. 1953)
27 May 2003 - 17 Jul 2006 Sir Francis Richards (b. 1945)
17 Jul 2006 - 27 Sep 2006 Philip Barton (acting)
27 Sep 2006 - 21 Oct 2009 Sir Robert Fulton (b. 1948)
21 Oct 2009 - 26 Oct 2009 Lesley Pallett (f) (acting)
26 Oct 2009 - Sir Adrian Johns (b. 1951)
13 November 2013 to 6 December 2013 Alison MacMillan, acting Governor
6 December 2013 Sir James Dutton, Governor (b. 1954)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------Chief ministers
11 Aug 1964 - 6 Aug 1969 Sir Joshua Hassan (1st time) (b. 1915 - d. 1997)
6 Aug 1969 - 25 Jun 1972 Robert Peliza (b. 1920 - d. 2011)
25 Jun 1972 - 8 Dec 1987 Sir Joshua Hassan (2nd time) (s.a.)
8 Dec 1987 - 25 Mar 1988 Adolfo Canepa (b. 1940)
25 Mar 1988 - 17 May 1996 Joe Bossano (b. 1939)
17 May 1996 - 9 Dec 2011 Peter Caruana (b. 1956)
9 Dec 2011 - Fabian Picardo (b. 1972)
