Governor of Victoria - Definition and Overview

List of Governors of Victoria

See Governors of the Australian states for a description and history of the office of Governor.

Lieutenant-Governors

• Charles La Trobe, 1851-1854*
• Captain Sir Charles Hotham, 1854-1855

* La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales 1839-1851

Governors

• Captain Sir Charles Hotham, 1855
• Sir Henry Barkly, 1856-1863
• Sir Charles Darling, 1863-1866
• Sir John Manners-Sutton, 1866-1873
• Sir George Bowen, 1873-1879
• George Phipps, Marquess of Normanby, 1879-1884
• Sir Henry Loch, 1884-1889
• John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1889-1895
• Thomas Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey, 1895-1900
• Sir George Clarke, 1901-1903
• Major-General Sir Reginald Talbot, 1904-1908
• Sir Thomas Carmichael, 1908-1911
• Sir John Fuller, 1911-1914
• Sir Arthur Stanley, 1914-1920
• Colonel George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, 1921-1926
• Lieutentant-Colonel Arthur Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 1926-1931
• Captain William Vannecke, 5th Baron Huntingfield, 1934-1939
• Major-General Sir Winston Dugan, 1939-1949
• General Sir Dallas Brooks, 1949-1963
• Major-General Sir Rohan Delacombe, 1963-1974
• Sir Henry Winneke, 1974-1982
• Rear-Admiral Sir Brian Murray, 1982-1985
• The Reverend Dr Davis McCaughey, 1986-1992
• Richard McGarvie, 1992-1997
• Sir James Gobbo, 1997-2000
• John Landy, 2001-present