List of colonial governors of Nyasaland

List of Colonial Heads of Malawi (Nyasaland)

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Term | Incumbent | Notes

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Nyasaland Districts Protectorate
1 February 1891 to 1893 | Harry Hamilton Johnston, Commissioner |
British Central Africa Protectorate
1893 to 16 April 1896 | Harry Hamilton Johnston, Commissioner |
16 April 1896 to 1 April 1907 | Alfred Sharpe, Commissioner | from 1 January 1902 he was Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief and Consul-General[1]
Nyasaland
1 April 1907 to September 1907 | Francis Barrow Pearce, acting Commissioner |
October 1907 to 1 May 1908 | William Henry Manning, acting Governor | 1st Term
1 May 1908 to 1 April 1910 | Alfred Sharpe, Governor |
1 April 1910 to 4 July 1910 | Francis Barrow Pearce, acting Governor |
4 July 1910 to 6 February 1911 | Henry Richard Wallis, acting Governor |
6 February 1911 to 23 September 1913 | William Henry Manning, acting Governor | 2nd Term
23 September 1913 to 12 April 1923 | George Smith, Governor | Knighted during tenure
12 April 1923 to 27 March 1924 | Richard Sims Donkin Rankine, acting Governor |
27 March 1924 to 30 May 1929 | Charles Calvert Bowring, Governor |
30 May 1929 to 7 November 1929 | Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston, acting Governor |
7 November 1929 to 22 November 1932 | Shenton Thomas, Governor | Knighted during tenure
22 November 1932 to 9 April 1934 | Hubert Winthrop Young, Governor |
9 April 1934 to 21 September 1934 | Kenneth Lambert Hall, acting Governor |
21 September 1934 to 20 March 1939 | Harold Baxter Kittermaster, Governor |
20 March 1939 to 8 August 1942 | Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy, Governor |
8 August 1942 to 27 March 1947 | Edmund Charles Smith Richards, Governor |
30 March 1947 to 10 April 1956 | Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Governor | Knighted during tenure
1 August 1953 to 31 December 1963 | Incorporated into the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
10 April 1956 to 10 April 1961 | Robert Perceval Armitage, Governor |
10 April 1961 to 6 July 1964 | Glyn Smallwood Jones, Governor |
6 July 1964 | Independence as Malawi

For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of Malawi

## References

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1. ^ "No. 27396". The London Gazette. 10 January 1902. p. 219.

## See also

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* History of Malawi
* Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

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