Antigua and Barbuda
No.	Portrait	Name	Date of Ascension/Took Office	Left Office
1		Vere Bird	1 November 1981	9 March 1994
2		Lester Bird	9 March 1994	24 March 2004
3		Baldwin Spencer	24 March 2004
Australia
1		Robert Menzies	6 February 1952
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The Bahamas
1		Lynden Pindling	10 May 1969	21 August 1992
2		Hubert Ingraham	21 August 1992	3 May 2002
3		Perry Christie	3 May 2002	4 May 2007
4		Cynthia A. Pratt (Acting)	4 May 2005	22 June 2005
5		Hubert Ingraham	4 May 2007
Barbados
1	60px	Errol Barrow	18 November 1966	3 September 1976
2	60px	Tom Adams	3 September 1976	11 March 1985
3		Harold Bernard St. John	11 March 1985	29 May 1986
4	60px	Errol Barrow	29 May 1986	1 June 1987
5		Lloyd Erskine Sandiford	1 June 1987	7 September 1994
6		Owen Arthur	7 September 1994	16 January 2008
7		David Thompson	16 January 2008	23 October 2010
8		Freundel Stuart	23 October 2010
Belize
1	File:George Price.jpg	George Cadle Price	21 September 1981	19 December 1984
2		Manuel Esquivel	17 December 1984	7 November 1989
3	File:George Price.jpg	George Cadle Price	7 November 1989	3 July 1993
4		Manuel Esquivel	3 July 1993	28 August 1998
5		Said Musa	28 August 1998	8 February 2008
6		Dean Barrow	8 February 2008
Canada
1		Louis St. Laurent	6 February 1952
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Ceylon
1		Don Stephen Senanayake	6 February 1952	22 March 1952
2		Dudley Senanayake	26 March 1952	12 October 1953
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4		S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike	12 April 1956	26 September 1959
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6		Dudley Senanayake	21 March 1960	21 July 1960
7	60px	Sirimavo Bandaranaike	21 July 1960	25 March 1965
8		Dudley Senanayake	25 March 1965	29 May 1970
9	60px	Sirimavo Bandaranaike	29 May 1970	22 May 1972 (Republic of Sri Lanka)
Fiji
1		Kamisese Mara	10 October 1970	13 April 1987
2		Timoci Bavadra	13 April 1987	14 May 1987 ( Coup d'état then Republic of Fiji)
The Gambia
1	File:Sir dawda Jawara.jpg	Dawda Jawara	12 June 1962	24 April 1970 (Republic of The Gambia)
Gold Coast
1		Kwame Nkrumah	21 March 1952	6 March 1957
Ghana
1		Kwame Nkrumah	6 March 1957 (Ghana)	1 July 1960 (Repubic of Ghana)
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Guyana
1	File:Forbes Burnham.jpg	Forbes Burnham	26 May 1966	23 February 1970 (Republic of Guyana)
Kenya
1		Jomo Kenyatta	1 June 1963	12 December 1964 (Republic of Kenya)
Malta
1	60px	Giorgio Borg Olivier	6 February 1952	11 March 1955
2		Dom Mintoff	11 March 1955	26 April 1958
26 April 1958 – 5 March 1962 Self-Government Withheld
3	60px	Giorgio Borg Olivier	5 March 1962	21 June 1971
4		Dom Mintoff	21 June 1971	13 December 1974 (Republic of Malta)
Mauritius
1		Seewoosagur Ramgoolam	12 March 1968	16 June 1982
2		Anerood Jugnauth	16 June 1982	12 March 1992 (Republic of Mauritius)
New Zealand
1		Sidney Holland	6 February 1952
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Nigeria
1		Abubakar Tafawa Balewa	30 August 1957	1 October 1963 (Repubic of Nigeria)
Northern Ireland
1	60px	Basil Brooke	6 February 1952	26 March 1963
2		Terence O'Neill	26 March 1963	1 May 1969
3	60px	James Chichester-Clark	1 May 1969	23 March 1971
4	60px	Brian Faulkner	23 March 1971	30 March 1972 [1]
Nyasaland
1		Hastings Banda	1 February 1963	31 December 1963
Malawi
1		Hastings Banda	31 December 1963	6 July 1966 (Republic of Malawi)
Pakistan
1		Khawaja Nazimuddin	6 February 1952	17 April 1953
2		Muhammad Ali Bogra	17 April 1953	11 August 1955
3		Chaudhry Muhammad Ali	11 August 1955	23 March 1956 (Republic of Pakistan)
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2		Albert Margai	29 April 1964	21 March 1967
3		Siaka Stevens	21 March 1967 (Minutes)
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4		Siaka Stevens	26 April 1968	19 April 1971 (Republic of Sirrea Leone)
South Africa
1		Daniel François Malan	6 February 1952	30 November 1954
2		Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom	30 November 1954	24 August 1958
3		Charles Robberts Swart (Acting)	24 August 1958	3 September 1958
4	File:Hendrik Verwoerd-official-1958.jpg	Hendrik Verwoerd	3 September 1958	31 May 1961 (Republic of South Africa)
Southern Rhodesia
1		Godfrey Huggins	6 February 1952	7 September 1953
2		Garfield Todd	7 September 1953	17 February 1958
3		Edgar Whitehead	17 February 1958	17 December 1962
4		Winston Field	17 December 1962	13 December 1964
5		Ian Smith	13 April 1964	11 November 1965
Rhodesia
1		Ian Smith	11 November 1965	2 March 1970 (Republic of Rhodesia)
Tanganyika
1		Julius Nyerere	1 May 1961	9 December 1962 (Republic of Tanganyika)
Trinidad and Tobago
1	60px	Eric Williams	31 August 1962	1 August 1976 (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago)
Tuvalu
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Uganda
1		Benedicto Kiwanuka	1 March 1962	30 April 1962
2		Milton Obote	30 April 1962	9 October 1963 (Repubic of Uganda)
United Kingdom
1		Winston Churchill	6 February 1952	6 April 1955
2		Anthony Eden	6 April 1955	10 January 1957
3	File:Macmillan cph.3b40592.jpg	Harold Macmillan	10 January 1957	19 October 1963
4		Alec Douglas-Home	19 October 1963	16 October 1964
5		Harold Wilson	12 October 1964	19 June 1970
6		Edward Heath	19 June 1970	4 March 1974
7		Harold Wilson	4 March 1974	5 April 1976
8		James Callaghan	5 April 1976	4 May 1979
9		Margaret Thatcher	4 May 1979	28 November 1990
10		John Major	28 November 1990	2 May 1997
11		Tony Blair	2 May 1997	27 June 2007
12		Gordon Brown	27 June 2007	11 May 2010
13		David Cameron	11 May 2010

1961 – 1964==

(Dates in italics indicated de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Dominion of Tanganyika
9 December 1961 to 9 December 1962		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Tanganyika represented by:-
9 December 1961 to 9 December 1962		Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull, Governor-General
Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Tanganyika

(Dates in italics indicated de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Dominion of Sierra Leone
27 April 1961 to 19 April 1971		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Sierra Leone represented by:-
27 April 1961 to 27 April 1962		Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, Governor-General
27 April 1962 to April 1967		Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General	Removed from office after a coup d'état
April 1967 to 18 April 1968		Andrew Juxon-Smith, Acting Governor-General	Deposed in a coup d'état
18 April 1968 to 22 April 1968		John Amadu Bangura, Acting Governor-General
22 April 1968 to 31 March 1971		Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, Governor-General
31 March 1971 to 19 April 1971		Christopher Okoro Cole, Interim Governor-General
Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Sierra Leone
19 April 1971 to 21 April 1971		Christopher Okoro Cole, President	n-p
21 April 1971 to 28 November 1985		Siaka Stevens, President	APC	Retired
28 November 1985 to 29 April 1992		Joseph Saidu Momoh, President	APC	Deposed in a coup d'état
30 April 1992 to 1 May 1992		Yahya Kanu, Chairman of the National Provisional Defense Council	Mil
1 May 1992 to July 1992		Valentine Strasser, Chairman of the National Provisional Defense Council	Mil
July 1992 to 17 January 1996		Valentine Strasser, Chairman of the Supreme Council of State		Deposed in a coup d'état
17 January 1996 to 29 March 1996		Julius Maada Bio, Chairman of the Supreme Council of State	Mil	Returned power to civilian government
29 March 1996 to 25 May 1997		Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President	SLPP	1st Term; deposed in a coup d'état
25 May 1997 to 12 February 1998		Johnny Paul Koroma, Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council	Mil	Removed from office by ECOMOG forces
10 March 1998 to 17 September 2007		Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President	SLPP	2nd Term
17 September 2007 to Present		Ernest Bai Koroma, President	APC

Affiliations

• APC - All People's Congress
• SLPP - Sierra Leone People's Party
• Mil - Military
• n-p - Nonpartisan

(Dates in italics indicated de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Dominion of Ceylon
4 August 1948 to 6 February 1952		His Majesty King George VI of Ceylon represented by:-
4 February 1948 to 6 July 1949		Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, Governor-General
6 July 1949 to 6 February 1952		Sir Herwald Ramsbotham, Governor-General
6 February 1952 to		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Ceylon represented by:-
6 February 1952 to 17 July 1954		Sir Herwald Ramsbotham, Governor-General
17 July 1954 to 2 March 1962		Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke, Governor-General
2 March 1962 to 22 May 1972		William Gopallawa, Governor-General
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Republic of Sri Lanka

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Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Dominion of Tanganyika
9 December 1961 to 9 December 1962		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Tanganyika represented by:-
9 December 1961 to 9 December 1962		Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull, Governor-General
Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Tanganyika

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Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Dominion of Trinidad and Tobago
31 August 1962 to 1 August 1976		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Trinidad and Tobago represented by:-
9 December 1961 to 15 September 1972		Sir Solomon Hochoy , Governor-General
15 September 1972 to 1 August 1976		Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, Governor-General
Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

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Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Dominion of Uganda
9 October 1963 to 9 October 1964		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Uganda represented by:-
9 October 1963 to 9 October 1964		Sir Walter Fleming Coutts, Governor-General
Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Uganda