Previous Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of Tasmania
Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of Tasmania
| Colonel David Collins, Lt-Gov (South)1 | 1804 - 1810 |
| Lieutenant Colonel William Paterson, Lt-Gov (North) | 1804 - 1808 |
| Captain John Brabyn, Cmdt (North) | 1808 - 1810 |
| Lieutenant Edward Lord, RM, Cmdt (South) | 1810 |
| Major G A Gordon, Cmdt (North) | 1810 - 1812 |
| Captain J Murray, Cmdt (South) | 1810 - 1812 |
| Captain J Ritchie, Cmdt (North)2 | June 1812 |
| Major A E Geils, Cmdt | 1812 - 1813 |
| Colonel Thomas Davey, Lt-Gov | 1813 - 1817 |
| Colonel William Sorell, Lt-Gov | 1817 - 1824 |
| Colonel George Arthur, Lt-Gov | 1824 - 1836 |
| Sir John Franklin, KCH, RN, Lt-Gov | 1837 - 1843 |
| Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt, Lt-Gov | 1843 - 1846 |
| Sir William Denison, Lt-Gov | 1847 - 1855 |
| Sir Henry Fox Young, CB, Governor-in-Chief | 1855 - 1861 |
| Colonel Sir Thomas Gore Browne, CB | 1862 - 1868 |
| Sir Charles du Cane, KCMG, | |
| Governor and Commander-in-Chief | 1869 - 1874 |
| Sir Frederick Weld, GCMG | 1875 - 1880 |
| Sir John Henry Lefroy | 1880 - 1881 |
| Major Sir George Strahan, KCMG | 1881 - 1886 |
| Sir Robert Hamilton, KCB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief | |
| of Tasmania and its Dependencies | 1887 - 1892 |
| The Viscount Gormanston, GCMG | 1893 - 1900 |
| Captain Sir Arthur Havelock, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE | 1901 - 1904 |
| Sir Gerald Strickland, GCMG | 1904 - 1909 |
| Major General Sir Harry Barron, KCMG, CVO | 1909 - 1913 |
| The Right Hon. Sir William Ellison-Macartney, KCMG | 1913 - 1917 |
| Sir Francis Newdegate, KCMG | 1917 - 1920 |
| Sir William Allardyce, KCMG | 1920 - 1922 |
| Sir James O'Grady | 1924 - 1930 |
| Sir Ernest Clark, GCMG, KCG, CBE | 1933 - 1945 |
| Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, KCB, KCMG, DSO | 1945 - 1951 |
| The Right Hon. Sir Ronald Cross, Bt, KCMG, KCVO | 1951 - 1958 |
| The Lord Rowallan, KT, KBE, MC, TD | 1959 - 1963 |
| Lt General Sir Charles Gairdner, CBE, KCMG, KCBO, CB | 1963 - 1968 |
| Lt General Sir Edric Bastyan, KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB | 1968 - 1973 |
| The Hon. Sir Stanley Burbury, KCMG, KCVO, KBE3 | 1973 - 1982 |
| Sir James Plimsoll, AC, CBE | 1982 - 1987 |
| General Sir Phillip Bennett, AC, KBE, DSO | 1987 - 1995 |
| The Honourable Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE4 | 1995 - 2003 |
| Mr Richard Butler, AC5 | 2003 - 2004 |
| The Honourable William Cox, AC, RFD, ED | 2004 - 2008 |
| The Honourable Peter Underwood , AC | 2008 - |
1 Before the arrival of Colonel David Collins as Van Diemen's Land's first Lieutenant-Governor, the Colony was under the control of Lieutenant John Bowen, RN, as its Commandant.
2 On 1st July 1812, the north of Van Diemen's Land was united with the south and administered from Hobart. Captain Ritchie had been Lieutenant Governor for only one month.
3 Sir Stanley Burbury was the first Australian born Governor.
4 Sir Guy Green was the first Tasmanian born Governor.
5 Resigned from office on the 9th August 2004.