| Term
| Incumbent
| Notes
|
| 6 March 1788 to 24 March 1790 | Philip Gidley King, Lieutenant-Governor | 1st Term
|
| 24 March 1790 to November 1791 | Robert Ross , Lieutenant-Governor
|
| 4 November 1791 to 29 June 1800 | Philip Gidley King, Lieutenant-Governor | 2nd Term
|
| 1796 to 1799 | John Townson , Lieutenant-Governor
|
| 1799 to 1800 | Thomas Rowley , Lieutenant-Governor
|
| 29 June 1800 to September 1804 | Joseph Foveaux , Lieutenant-Governor
|
| 9 September 1804 to January 1810 | John Piper, Lieutenant-Governor
|
| January 1810 to February 1814 | Tankerville Alexander Crane , Lieutenant-Governor
|
| February 1814 to 6 June 1825 | abandoned
|
| 6 June 1825 to April 1826 | Richard Turton , Commandant
|
| 1826 to 1827 | Vance Young Donaldson , Commandant
|
| 1827 to 1828 | Thomas Edward Wright, Commandant
|
| 1828 to 1829 | Robert Hunt, Commandant
|
| February 1829 to 29 June 1829 | Joseph Wakefield , Commandant
|
| 29 June 1829 to 1834 | John Thomas Morisset , Commandant
|
| 1834 to 1834 | Foster Fyans , Commandant
|
| 1834 to 4 November 1839 | James Anderson , Commandant
|
| 1839 to 1839 | Thomas Bunbury , Commandant
|
| 1840 to 1840 | Thomas Ryan , Commandant
|
| 17 March 1840 to 1844 | Alexander Maconochie , Commandant
|
| 8 February 1844 to 5 August 1846 | Joseph Childs , Commandant
|
| 1846 to 1853 | John Giles Price , Commandant
|
| May 1855 to 8 June 1856 | abandoned
|
| 1 November 1856 | Separate territory, under New South Wales
|
| 1856 to 1857 | George Henry Frederick Young , Chief Magistrate | 1st Term
|
| 1858 to 1858 | Isaac Christian , Chief Magistrate
|
| 1859 to 1859 | George Henry Frederick Young , Chief Magistrate | 2nd Term
|
| 1860 to 1861 | Thomas Buffett , Chief Magistrate
|
| 1862 to 1865 | Arthur Quintal II , Chief Magistrate | 1st Term
|
| 1866 to 1866 | William Quintal , Chief Magistrate | 1st Term
|
| 1867 to 1870 | John Buffett , Chief Magistrate | 1st Term
|
| 1871 to 1871 | David Buffett , Chief Magistrate
|
| 1872 to 1873 | William Quintal , Chief Magistrate | 2nd Term
|
| 1874 to 1875 | Fletcher Christian Nobbs , Chief Magistrate
|
| 1876 to 1880 | Francis Mason Nobbs , Chief Magistrate | 1st Term
|
| 1881 to 1882 | John Buffett , Chief Magistrate | 2nd Term
|
| 1883 to 1884 | Francis Mason Nobbs , Chief Magistrate | 2nd Term
|
| 1885 to 1885 | Arthur Quintal II , Chief Magistrate | 2nd Term
|
| 1886 to 1887 | Stephen Christian , Chief Magistrate | 1st Term
|
| 1888 to 1888 | Henry Seymour Buffett , Chief Magistrate
|
| 1889 to 1890 | Stephen Christian , Chief Magistrate | 2nd Term
|
| 1891 to 1892 | Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams , Chief Magistrate | 1st Term
|
| 1893 to 1893 | Stephen Christian , Chief Magistrate | 3rd Term
|
| 1894 to 1894 | Francis Mason Nobbs , Chief Magistrate | 3rd Term
|
| 1895 to 1896 | Byron Stanley Mitchell Adams , Chief Magistrate | 2nd Term
|
| 1896 to 1898 | Warner Wright Spalding , Administrator
|
| 1898 to 1903 | Charles McArthur King , Administrator
|
| 1903 to 1907 | Walton Drake , Administrator
|
| 1907 to 1913 | Charles Sinclair Elliot , Administrator
|
| 21 August 1913 to 30 August 1920 | Michael Vincent Murphy , Administrator | 1st Term
|
| 1 September 1920 to 30 June 1924 | John William Parnell , Administrator
|
| Norfolk Island Territory
|
| 1 July 1924 to 16 October 1926 | Edwin Thomas Leane , Administrator
|
| 1926 to 1926 | Henry Stephenson Edgar , Administrator | 1st Term
|
| 1926 to 1 February 1927 | Michael Vincent Murphy , Administrator | 2nd Term
|
| 1 February 1927 to 25 January 1928 | Victor Conradsdorf Morisset Sellheim , Administrator
|
| 25 January 1928 to 6 June 1928 | Henry Stephenson Edgar , Administrator | 2nd Term
|
| 6 June 1928 to 21 January 1929 | Charles Edward Herbert , Administrator
|
| 1 May 1929 to 30 June 1932 | Alfred Joshua Bennett , Administrator
|
| 1 July 1932 to 3 December 1937 | Charles Robert Pinney , Administrator
|
| 4 December 1937 to 31 December 1945 | Sir Charles Rosenthal , Administrator
|
| 1 January 1946 to 31 December 1952 | Alexander Wilson, Administrator
|
| 1 January 1953 to 30 April 1958 | Colin Hugh Boyd Norman , Administrator
|
| 1 May 1958 to 1962 | Reginald Sylvester Leydin , Administrator
|
| 1962 to 1964 | Robert Hurley Wordsworth , Administrator
|
| 1964 to 1966 | Roger Bede Nott , Administrator
|
| 1966 to June 1968 | Reginald Marsh , Administrator
|
| July 1968 to August 1972 | Robert Nixon Dalkin , Administrator
|
| August 1972 to 31 August 1975 | Edward Thomas Pickerd , Administrator | 1st Term
|
| 1 September 1975 to 31 May 1976 | Charles Ivens Buffett , acting Administrator
|
| 1 June 1976 to 4 September 1976 | Edward Thomas Pickerd , acting Administrator | 2nd Term
|
| 4 September 1976 to 4 September 1979 | Desmond Vincent O'Leary , Administrator
|
| 5 September 1979 to 19 March 1981 | Peter Coleman , Administrator
|
| 19 March 1981 to 10 May 1981 | Ian Hutchinson , acting Administrator
|
| 11 May 1981 to 27 January 1982 | Thomas Ferguson Paterson , acting Administrator
|
| 28 January 1982 to 28 April 1985 | Raymond Edward Trebilco , Administrator
|
| 29 April 1985 to 31 December 1988 | John Alexander Matthew , Administrator
|
| 31 December 1988 to 12 April 1989 | William McFadyen Campbell , acting Administrator
|
| 13 April 1989 to 12 April 1992 | Herbert Bruce MacDonald , Administrator
|
| 13 April 1992 to 30 June 1997 | Alan Gardner Kerr , Administrator
|
| 1 July 1997 to 3 August 1997 | Ralph Alexander Condon , acting Administrator
|
| 4 August 1997 to 30 July 2003 | Anthony Tony John Messner , Administrator
|
| 30 July 2003 to 1 November 2003 | Michael Stephens , acting Administrator
|
| 1 November 2003 to present | Grant Tambling , Administrator
|
