Governor of Cyprus

This is a list of the British High Commissioners and Governors of Cyprus.

Hitherto a territory of the Ottoman Empire, a British protectorate under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878. The United Kingdom declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914 and annexed Cyprus. Turkey recognised British possession of Cyprus by the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923 and the island became a Crown Colony on 10 March 1925. Following the Zürich and London Agreement of 19 February 1959 Cyprus became indepedent on 16 August 1960.

High Commissioners, 1878-1925

* 22 July 1878: Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley
* 23 June 1879: Sir Robert Biddulph
* 9 March 1886: Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer
* 5 April 1892: Sir Walter Joseph Sendall
* 23 April 1898: Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith
* 17 October 1904: Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman
* 12 October 1911: Hamilton John Goold-Adams
* 8 January 1915: Sir John Eugene Clauson ("died in office")
* 31 December 1918: Sir Malcolm Stevenson ("acting")
* 31 July 1920: Sir Malcolm Stevenson

Governors, 1925-1960

* 10 March 1925: Sir Malcolm Stevenson
* 30 November 1926: Sir Ronald Storrs
* 29 October 1932: Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
* 8 November 1933: Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer
* 4 July 1939: William Denis Battershill (knighted in 1941)
* 3 October 1941: Charles Campbell Woolley (knighted in 1943)
* 24 October 1946: The Lord Winster
* 4 August 1949: Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright
* 1954: Sir Robert Perceval Armitage
* 25 September 1955: Sir John Alan Francis Harding
* 3 December 1957: Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot

References

* http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Cyprus.html