List of colonial governors of the British Virgin Islands TermIncumbentNotesEnglish colony1666 1741John Pickering President1742 to 1750John Hunt President1750 to 1751James Purcell President1751 to 1775John Purcell President1775 to 1782John Nugent President1782 to 1811... President1811 to 18..Richard Hetherington PresidentPart of the Leeward Islands1833 to 1839 1839 to 1850Edward Hay Drummond Hay President1852 to 1854John Cornell Chads President1854 to 1857Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright President1859 to 1861Thomas Price President1861 to 1864James Robert Longden President1866 to 1869Sir Arthur Carlos Henry Rumbold President1869 to 1872Alexander Wilson Muir President1873 to 1879Richard Mahoney Hickson President1879 to 1882John Kemys Spencer-Churchill President1882 to 1884Richard Henry Kortright Dyett President1884 to 1887Fredrick Augustus Pickering President1887 to 1893Edward John Cameron Administrator1894 to 1896Alexander R. Mackay Administrator1896 to 1903Nathaniel George Cookman Administrator1903 to 1910Robert Stephen Earl Administrator1910 to 1919Thomas Leslie Hardtman Jarvis Administrator1919 to 1922Herbert Walter Peebles Administrator1922 to 1923R. Hargrove Administrator1923 to 1926Otho Lewis Hancock Administrator1926 to 1934Frank Cecil Clarkson Administrator1934 to 1946Donald Percy Wailling Administrator1946 to 1954John Augustus Cockburn Cruikshank Administrator1954 to 1956Henry Howard Administrator1956 to 1959Geoffrey Poole Allsebrook Administrator1959 to 1 January 1960Gerald Jackson Bryan Administrator1 January 1960Dissolution of the Leeward Islands1 January 1960 to 1962Gerald Jackson Bryan Administrator1962 to 1967Martin Samuel Staveley Administrator1967 to 1971John Sutherland Thomson Administrator1971 to 1974Derek George Cudmore Governor1974 to 1978Walter Wilkinson Wallace Governor1978 to 1981James Alfred Davidson Governor1982 to 1986David Robert Barwick Governor1986 to 1991J. Mark A. Herdman Governor14 October 1991 to 21 June 1995Peter Alfred Penfold Governor21 June 1995 to 1998David Mackilligin Governor3 July 1998 to 5 October 2002Frank Savage Governor5 October 2002 to 14 October 2002Elton Georges Acting Governor14 October 2002 to 18 April 2006Tom Macan Governor18 April 2006 to 5 August 2010David Pearey Governor20 August 2010 to 1 August 2014William Boyd McCleary Governor15 August 2014 to 22 August 2017John S. Duncan OBE Governor22 August 2017 to presentAugustus Jaspert Governor