Administrator (1787) |
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| On 14 May 1787, the Province of Freedom was founded by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor for freed slaves. | |
| 14 May – September 1787 | Captain Thomas Boulden Thompson |
Governor (1787-1789) |
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| August 1788 – 1789 | John Taylor |
Agent (1792) |
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| January 1791 – March 1792 | Alexander Falconbridge |
Superintendent (1792) |
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| March – July 1792 | John Clarkson |
Governors (1792-1827) |
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| July – 31 December 1792 | John Clarkson |
| 31 December 1792 – March 1794 | William Dawes (1st time) |
| March 1794 – 6 May 1795 | Zachary Macaulay (1st time) |
| 6 May 1795 – March 1796 | William Dawes (2nd time) |
| March 1796 – April 1799 | Zachary Macaulay (2nd time) |
| April – May 1799 | John Gray (1st time) |
| On 5 July 1799 the Province of Freedom was renamed Sierra Leone. | |
| May 1799 – 1800 | Thomas Ludlam (1st time) |
| 1800 – January 1801 | John Gray (2nd time) |
| January 1801 – February 1803 | William Dawes (3rd time) |
| February 1803 – 1803 | William Day (1st time) |
| 1803 – 1805 | Thomas Ludlam (2nd time) |
| 1805 – 4 November 1805 | William Day (2nd time) |
| On 1 January 1808, Sierra Leone (including coastal area) becomes Crown colony of the United Kingdom, and Sierra Leone Company rule was ended. | |
| 1806 – 21 July 1808 | Thomas Ludlam (3rd time, acting to 1 January 1808) |
| 21 July 1808 – 12 February 1810 | Thomas Perronet Thompson (acting for Maxwell) |
| 12 February 1810 – May 1811 | Edward H. Columbine |
| May – 1 July 1811 | Robert Bones (acting) |
| 1 July 1811 – July 1815 | Charles William Maxwell |
| July – December 1814 | Charles MacCarthy (1st time, acting for Maxwell) |
| December 1814 – January 1815 | J Mailing (acting for Maxwell) |
| January – March 1815) | R Purdie (acting for Maxwell) |
| March – June 1815 | William Appleton (acting for Maxwell) |
| June – July 1815 | Captain Henry Barry Hyde (acting for Maxwell) |
| July 1815 – July 1820 | Charles MacCarthy (2nd time, acting to 1 January 1816) |
| 28 July 1820 – 1 February 1821 | Sir Alexander Grant (1st time, acting) |
| 1 February 1821 – 4 February 1821 | E. Burke (acting) |
| On 17 October 1821, Sierra Leone territory becomes part of British West African Territories. Its Governorship was held simultaneously by Governor (from 1827 until 1837 Lieutenant governor) of Sierra Leone. | |
| 4 February 1821 – 28 November 1821 | Sir Alexander Grant (2nd time, acting) |
| November 1821 – 21 January 1824 | Sir Charles MacCarthy (3rd time) |
| 21 January – 5 February 1824 | Daniel Molloy Hamilton (acting) |
| 5 February 1824 – 7 March 1826 | Major-General Sir Charles Turner |
| 8 March – August 1826 | Kenneth Macaulay (colonialist) and Samuel Smart (acting) |
| August 1826 – December 1827 | Sir Neil Campbell |
| James Milton Margai (Sierra Leonean born found of Fire Stone) | |
Lieutenant-Governors |
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| December 1827 – 1828 | Hugh Lumley (1st time) |
| 1828 – 8 May 1828 | Dixon Denham |
| 9 June – July 1828 | Hugh Lumley (2nd time) |
| July – November 1828 | Samuel Smart (2nd time, acting) |
| November 1828 – 1829 | Major Henry John Ricketts (acting) |
| 1829 – 1830 | Augustine Fitzgerald Evans (acting) |
| 1830 | Alexander Maclean Fraser (acting) |
| 1830 – July 1833 | Alexander Findlay |
| July – December 1833 | Michael Linning Melville (acting) |
| December 1833 – 1834 | Octavius Temple |
| 1834 – February 1835 | Thomas Cole (first time, acting) |
| February 1835 – 1837 | Henry Dundas Campbell |
| 1837 | Thomas Cole (second time, acting) |
Governors (1837-1961) |
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| 1837–1840 | Richard Doherty |
| 1840 – April 1841 | John Jeremie |
| April – September 1841 | John Carr (acting) |
| September 1841 – January 1842 | William Fergusson |
| January 1842 – July 1844 | George Macdonald |
| July 1844 – 1845 | William Fergusson (2nd time) |
| On 13 January 1850, the British West African Territories was dissolved and Sierra Leone again becomes a separate crown colony. | |
| 1845–1852 | Norman William MacDonald |
| 13 September 1852–1854 | Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (1st time) |
| 1854 | Robert Dougan (1st time, acting) |
| 1854–1855 | Sir Stephen John Hill (1st time) |
| 1855 | Robert Dougan |
| 1855–1859 | Sir Stephen John Hill (2nd time) |
| 1859–1860 | Alexander Fitzjames |
| 1860–1861 | Sir Stephen John Hill |
| 1861–1862 | William Hill and Smith (acting) |
| 1862–1865 | Samuel Wensley Blackall (1st time) |
| 1865 – 19 February 1866 | Chamberlayne (acting) |
| On 19 February 1866, Sierra Leone territory becomes part of the British West African Settlements. Its Governorship was held simultaneously by Governor of Sierra Leone. | |
| 19 February 1866 – 1867 | Samuel Wensley Blackall |
| 1867 | Gustavus N.K. Yonge (acting) |
| 1867–1868 | Samuel Wensley Blackall (3rd time) |
| 1868–1869) | John Jennings Kendall (1st time, acting) |
| 1869–1871 | Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (2nd time) |
| 1871 | John Jennings Kendall (2nd time, acting) |
| 1871 | Sheppard (acting) |
| 1871 – January 1872 | Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (3rd time) |
| January – February 1872 | John Jennings Kendall (3rd time, acting) |
| February 1872 – 7 March 1873 | John Pope Hennessy |
| 7–17 March 1873 | Robert William Keate |
| 17 March – 2 October 1873 | Alexander Bravo and Robert William Harley (acting) |
| 2 October 1873 – 4 March 1874 | Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley |
| 4 March – 17 December 1874 | George Berkeley |
| On 17 December 1874, British West African Settlements was renamed British West Africa Settlements. | |
| 17 December 1874 – 1875 | George French (acting) |
| 1875 | Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (1st time) |
| 1875–1876 | Sir Samuel Rowe (1st time) |
| 1876–1877 | Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright (2nd time) |
| 1877 | Horatio James Huggins (acting) |
| September 1877 – 1880 | Sir Samuel Rowe (2nd time) |
| 1880–1881 | William Streeten (acting) |
| 1881 | Sir Samuel Rowe (3rd time) |
| 1881 | Francis Frederick Pinkett (1st time, acting) |
| 1881–1883 | Arthur Elibank Havelock (1st time) |
| 1883 | Francis Frederick Pinkett (2nd time, acting) |
| 1883–1884 | Arthur Elibank Havelock |
| 1884 | Arthur M. Tarleton (acting) |
| 1884–1885 | Francis Frederick Pinkett (3rd time, acting) |
| 1885–1886 | Sir Samuel Rowe (4th time) |
| 1886–1887 | Sir James Shaw Hay (1st time, acting) |
| 1887–1888 | Sir Samuel Rowe (5th time) |
| 1888 | J.M. Maltby (1st time, acting) |
| On 28 November 1888, the British West Africa Settlements was dissolved and Sierra Leone again becomes a separate crown colony. | |
| 1888–1889 | Sir James Shaw Hay (2nd time, acting to 24 November 1888) |
| 1889 | Patchett and Foster (acting) |
| 1889–1890 | J.M. Maltby (2nd time) |
| 1890–1891 | Sir James Shaw Hay (3rd time) |
| 1891–1892 | J.J. Crooks (acting) |
| 1892 | W.H.Q. Jones (1st time, acting) |
| 1892–1893 | Francis Fleming (first time) |
| 1893 | W.H.Q. Jones (2nd time, acting) |
| 1893–1894 | Francis Fleming (2nd time) |
| 1894 | W.H.Q. Jones (3rd time, acting) |
| 1894–1895 | Frederic Cardew (1st time) |
| 1895 – 24 August 1895 | Caulfield (1st time, acting) |
| On 24 August 1895, hinterland of Sierra Leone becomes British protectorate, and crown colony was renamed Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate. | |
| 24 August 1895 – 1897 | Frederic Cardew (1st time) |
| 1897 | J.C. Gore (acting) |
| 1897 | Caulfield (2nd time, acting) |
| 1897–1899 | Sir Frederic Cardew (3rd time) |
| 1899 | Matthew Nathan (acting) |
| 1899 – 1900 | Sir Frederic Cardew (4th time) |
| 1900 – 11 December 1900 | Caulfield (3rd time, acting) |
| 11 December 1900 – 3 October 1904 | Sir Charles King-Harman |
| 1902 | Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Thomas Henstock (acting*) |
| 1902 | Colonel John Willoughby Astley Marshall (acting*) |
| 1902 | Colonel Francis John Graves (acting*) |
| 3 October 1904 – 1910 | Sir Leslie Probyn |
| 1910–1913 | Sir Edward Marsh Merewether (1st time) |
| 1913 | Claude Hollis (acting) |
| 1913–1916 | Sir Edward Marsh Merewether (2nd time) |
| 9 March 1916 – 1921 | Sir Richard James Wilkinson (1st time) |
| 1921 | John C. Maxwell (acting) |
| 1921 – 4 May 1922 | Sir Richard James Wilkinson (2nd time) |
| 4 May 1922 – 24 September 1927 | Alexander Ransford Slater |
| 24 September 1927 – 1929 | Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne (1st time) |
| 1929–1930 | Mark Aitchison Young (acting) |
| 1930 – 23 May 1931 | Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne (2nd time) |
| 23 May 1931 – 17 July 1934 | Sir Arnold Wienholt Hodson |
| 17 July 1934 – 21 May 1937 | Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore |
| 21 May 1937 – 5 July 1941 | Sir Douglas James Jardine |
| 5 July 1941 – September 194 | Sir Hubert Craddock Stevenson |
| September 1947 – December 195 | Sir George Beresford-Stooke |
| December 1952 – 1 September 1956 | Sir Robert de Zouche Hall |
| 1 September 1956 – 27 April 1961 | Maurice Henry Dorman |
| In 1961, Sierra Leone achieved independence from the United Kingdom. After independence, the viceroy in Sierra Leone was the Governor-General of Sierra Leone. | |
| *acting while King-Harman was in the UK | |
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