List of colonial governors of Kenya

This page contains a list of Chairmen, Administrators, Commissioners and Governors of British colonial Kenya.

The office of Governor of Kenya was replaced by the office of Governor General in 1963 and the latter replaced by a President of Kenya upon Kenya becoming a Republic in 1964. For continuation after independence, see: Heads of state of Kenya

Chairman of the Imperial British East Africa Company

#	Image	Name	Term start	Term end
1.		Sir William Mackinnon	3 September 1888	1889

Administrators of the Imperial British East Africa Company

#	Image	Name	Term start	Term end
2.		George Sutherland Mackenzie	3 Sept 1889	May 1890
3.		Francis Walter de Winton	May 1890	February 1891
4.		George Sutherland Mackenzie	February 1891	1891
Acting		Greg Martin	1891	June 1891
5.		Lloyd Williams Matthews	June 1891	February 1892
6.	75px	Sir Gerald Herbert Portal	February 1892	1893
Acting		John R.W. Pigott	1893	July 1895

Commissioners of the British East Africa Protectorate

#	Image	Name	Term start	Term end
7.		Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge	1 July 1895	7 Oct 1900
Acting		C.H. Craufurd	7 Oct 1900	30 December 1900
8.	75px	Sir Charles Eliot	30 December 1900	20 May 1904
Acting	75px	Frederick John Jackson	20 May 1904	1 August 1904
9.		Sir Donald William Stewart	1 August 1904	1 October 1905
Acting	75px	Frederick John Jackson	1 October 1905	12 December 1905
10.		Sir James Hayes Sadler	12 December 1905	31 December 1905

Governors of the British East Africa Protectorate

#	Image	Name	Term start	Term end
10.		Sir James Hayes Sadler	31 December 1905	12 April 1909
Acting		Sir Charles Calvert Bowring	12 April 1909	16 September 1909
11.		Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard	16 September 1909	17 July 1912
Acting		Sir Charles Calvert Bowring	17 July 1912	3 October 1912
12.		Sir Henry Conway Belfield	3 October 1912	14 April 1917
Acting		Sir Charles Calvert Bowring	14 April 1917	1 February 1919
13.		Sir Edward Northey	1 February 1919	1920

Governors of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya

#	Image	Name	Term start	Term end
13.		Sir Edward Northey	1920	28 August 1922
14.	75px	Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon	31 August 1922	10 February 1925
Acting		Edward Denham	10 February 1925	3 October 1925
15.	75px	Edward William Macleay Grigg	10 February 1925	27 September 1930
Acting		Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore	27 September 1930	13 February 1931
16.		Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne	13 February 1931	22 December 1936
Acting		Sir Armigel Wade	22 December 1936	6 April 1937
17.	75px	Sir Robert Brooke-Popham	6 April 1937	9 January 1940
Acting		Walter Harragin	30 September 1939	9 January 1940
Acting		Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore	9 January 1940	25 October 1944
Acting		Gilbert McCall Rennie	25 October 1944	12 December 1944
18.	75px	Sir Philip Euen Mitchell	11 December 1944	21 June 1952
Acting		Henry Steven Potter	21 June 1952	29 September 1952
19.		Sir Evelyn Baring	30 September 1952	23 October 1959
Acting		Walter Fleming Coutts	4 October 1959	23 October 1959
20.		Sir Patrick Muir Renison	23 October 1959	17 November 1962
Acting		Sir Eric Griffith-Jones	17 November 1962	4 January 1963
21.		Malcolm MacDonald	4 January 1963	12 December 1963

See also

• Kenya
  • Heads of state of Kenya
  • Heads of Government of Kenya
  • Vice-Presidents of Kenya
• Lists of incumbents