List of lieutenant governors of Guernsey 1770 to date |
Title | Appointed | Name |
Serving under Governor of Guernsey: | 1770 | Lt-Col. Paulus Aemilius Irving |
| 1784 | Lt-Col. William Brown |
| 1793 | Maj-Gen. Thomas Dundas |
| 1793 | Col. James Henry Craig |
| 1793 | Maj-Gen. John Small |
| 1796 | Lt-Gen. Sir Hew Dalrymple |
| 1803 | Maj-Gen. Sir John Doyle Bt GCB KC |
| 1816 | Maj-Gen. Henry Bayly |
| 1821 | Maj-Gen. Sir John Colborne KCB |
| 1828 | Maj-Gen. John Ross |
Lieutenant Governor and Colonel on Staff: | 1837 | Gen. Sir James Douglas KCB |
| 1842 | Maj-Gen. Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB |
| 1848 | Lt-Gen. Sir John Bell KCB |
| 1854 | Lt-Gen. William Thomas Knollys |
| 1856 | Lt-Gen. Sir George Judd Harding KCB |
| 1859 | Maj-Gen. Marcus John Slade[6] |
| 1864 | Maj-Gen. Charles Rochfort Scott |
| 1869 | Lt-Gen. Edward Charles Frome |
| 1874 | Lt-Gen. Hon. St George Gerald Foley CB |
| 1879 | Maj-Gen. Alexander Abercromby Nelson CB |
| 1883 | Maj-Gen. Henry Andrew Sarel CB |
| 1885 | Lt-Gen. John Henry Ford Elkington CB |
| 1889 | Gen. Sir Edward Gascoyne Bulwer KCB |
Lieutenant Governor and Commanding the Troops: | 1894 | Lt-Gen. Nathaniel Stevenson |
| 1899 | Maj-Gen. Michael Henry Saward |
| 1903 | Maj-Gen. Barrington Bulkeley Douglas Campbell CVO CB |
| 1908 | Maj-Gen. Robert Auld CB |
| 1911 | Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton KCB |
| 1914 | Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Merrick Lawson KCB |
| 1914 | Gen. Sir Reginald Clare Hart VC GCB KCVO |
| 1918 | Lt-Gen. Sir Launcelot Edward Kiggell KCB KCMG |
| 1920 | Maj-Gen. Sir John Edward Capper KCB KCVO |
| 1925 | Maj-Gen. Sir Charles Sackville-West KBE CB CMG |
| 1929 | Maj-Gen. Lord Ruthven of Freeland CB CMG DSO |
| 1934 | Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Nicholson Broadbent KBE CB CMG DSO[7] |
| 1939 | Maj-Gen. Alexander Telfer-Smollett CB CBE DSO MC |
| 1940 | Maj-Gen. John Minshull-Ford CB DSO MC (7 to 20 June 1940) |
| 1940–45 | German occupation of the Channel Islands – post vacated as part of demilitarisation of the island |
Head of the British Military Government: | 1945 | Rear-Adm. Charles Gage Stuart DSO DSC |
Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief: | 1945 | Lt-Gen. Sir Philip Neame VC KBE CB DSO |
| 1953 | Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst KBE CB AFC |
| 1958 | Vice-Adm. Sir Geoffrey Robson KBE CB DSO DSC |
| 1964 | Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Coleman KCB CMG DSO OBE |
| 1969 | Vice-Adm. Sir Charles Mills KCB CBE DSC |
| 1974 | Vice-Adm. Sir John Edward Ludgate Martin KCB DSC |
| 1980 | Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter de Lacey Le Cheminant GBE KCB DFC |
| 1985 | Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Boswell KCB CBE |
| 1990 | Lt-Gen. Sir Michael Compton Lockwood Wilkins KCB OBE |
| 1994 | Vice-Adm. Sir John Francis Coward KCB DSO |
| 2000 | Lt-Gen. Sir John Paul Foley KCB OBE MC |
| 2005 | Vice-Adm. Sir Fabian Malbon KBE |
| 2011–15 | Air Marshal Peter Walker CB CBE |
| 2016 | Vice-Adm. Sir Ian Corder KBE CB[8] |
| 2022 | Lt-Gen. Richard Cripwell CB CBE[9] |