Governors of Victoria, 1855 - Current

 

  1. Captain Sir Charles Hotham, RN, KCB:22 May to 31 December 1855

  2. Sir Henry Barkly, KCB: 26 December 1856 to 10 September 1863
  3. Sir Charles Henry Darling, KCB: 11 September 1863-7 May 1866
  4. The Hon. Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, KCB: 15 August 1866 to 2 March 1873
  5. Sir George Ferguson Bowen, GCMG: 30 July 1873 to 22 February 1879
  6. The Most Hon. George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Marquis of Normanby, GCMG, PC: 29 April 1879 to 18 April 1884
  7. Sir Henry Brougham Loch, GCMG, KCB: 15 July 1884 to 15 November 1889
  8. The Right Hon. John Adrian Louis Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, GCMG: 28 November 1889 to 12 July 1895
  9. The Right Hon. Baron Brassey, KCB: 25 October 1895 to 31 March 1900
  10. Sir George Sydenham Clarke, KCMG, FRS: 10 December 1901 to 24 November 1903
  11. Major-General the Hon. Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot, KCB: 25 April 1904 to 6 July 1908
  12. Sir Thomas David Gibson Carmichael, Bt, KCMG: 27 July 1908 to 19 May 1911
  13. Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, Bt, KCMG: 24 May 1911 to 31 January 1914
  14. The Hon. Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley, KCMG: 23 February 1914 to 30 January 1920
  15. Colonel the Right Hon. George Edward John Mowbray, Earl of Stradbroke, KCMG, CB CVO, CBE: 24 February 1921 to 7 April 1926
  16. Lt.-Colonel the Right Hon. Arthur Herbert Tennyson, Baron Somers, KCMG, DSO, MC: 28 June 1926 to 23 June 1931
  17. Captain the Right Hon. William Charles Arcedeckne, Baron Huntingfield, KCMG: 14 May 1934 to 4 April 1939
  18. Major-General Sir Winston Joseph Dugan, GCMG, CB, DSO: 17 July 1939 to 20 February 1949
  19. General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, K.St.J.: 18 October 1949 to 7 May 1963
  20. Major-General Sir Rohan Delacombe, KCMG, KVCO, KBE, CB, K.St.J.: 8 May 1963 to 31 May 1974
  21. The Hon. Sir Henry Arthur Winneke, KCMG, KVCO, OBE, K.St.J., QC: I June 1974 to I March 1982
  22. Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray, KCMG, K.St.J., AO: 1 March 1982 to 3 October 1985
  23. The Reverend Dr John Davis McCaughey, AC: 18 February 1986 to 31 March 1992
  24. The Hon. Richard Elgin McGarvie, AC: 23 April 1992 to 23 April,1997
  25. The Hon. Sir James A. Gobbo, A.C., Q.C.: 24 April 1997 to 31 December, 2000
  26. John Landy, M.B.E.: 1 January 2001 - 

In those intervals between the retirement of a Governor and the assumption to office of a successor, the responsibilities of the position were assumed by a Lieutenant-Governor, a Deputy or an administrator; between 1931 and 1934 the position of governor was not filled.