Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

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The Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the Lieutenant Governor is to act as the de facto head of state in Guernsey. The Lieutenant Governor also liaises between the Governments of Guernsey and the United Kingdom. The holder of this office is also ex officio a member of the States of Guernsey but may not vote and, by convention, speaks in the Chamber only on appointment and on departure from post. The duties are primarily diplomatic and ceremonial.

The current Lieutenant Governor is Vice-Admiral Sir Fabian Malbon.

The Lieutenant Governor has his own flag in Guernsey, the Union Flag defaced with the Bailiwick's coat of arms.

List of Lieutenant Governors of Guernsey

Title	Appointed	Name
Serving under Governor of Guernsey:	1770	Lieut-Col. Paulus Aemilius Irving
	1784	Lieut-Col. William Brown
	1793	Maj-Gen. Thomas Dundas
	1793	Colonel James Henry Craig
	1793	Maj-Gen. John Small
	1796	Lieut-Gen. Sir Hew Dalrymple
	1803	Maj-Gen. Sir John Doyle, Bart, GCB, KC
	1816	Maj-Gen. Henry Bailey
	1821	Maj-Gen. Sir John Colborne, KCB
	1828	Maj-Gen. John Dawes Ross
Lieutenant Governor and Colonel on Staff:	1837	General Sir James Douglas, KCB
	1842	Maj-Gen. Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, KCB
	1848	Lieut-Gen. Sir John Bell, KCB
	1854	Lieut-Gen. William Thomas Knollys
	1856	Lieut-Gen. George Judd Harding, CB
	1859	Maj-Gen. Marcus John Slade
	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	John Henry Ford Elkington
	1889	Edward Gascoyne Bulwer
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	Robert Auld
	1911	Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton
	1914	Maj-Gen. Henry Merrick Lawson, CB
	1914	Sir Reginald Clare Hart VC, GCB, KCVO
	1918	Launcelot Edward Kiggell
	1920	Maj-Gen. Sir John Edward Capper, KCB, KCVO
	1925	Charles John Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville
	1929	Maj-Gen. Walter Hore-Ruthven, 9th Baron Ruthven, CB, CMG, DSO
	1934	Maj-Gen. Sir Edward Nicholson Broadbent, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO
	1939	Maj-Gen. Alexander Telfer-Smollett, CB, CBE, DSO, MC
	1940	Maj-Gen. John Minshull-Ford, CB, DSO, MC (7th to 20th June 1940)
	1940-1945	German Occupation of the Channel Islands - post vacated as part of demilitarisation of the island
Head of the British Military Government:	1945	Charles Gage Stuart
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 William Geoffrey Arthur Robson, KBE, CB, DSO, MC
	1964	Lt-Gen. Sir Cyril Frederick Charles Coleman, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE
	1969	Vice-Adm. Sir Charles Piercy Mills, KCB, CBE, DSC
	1974	Vice-Adm. Sir John Edward Ludgate Martin, KCB, DSC, FNI
	1980	Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter de Lacey Le Cheminant, GBE, KCB, DFC
	1985	Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Crawford Simpson Boswell, KCB, CBE
	1990	Lt-Gen. Sir Michael Compton Lockwood Wilkins
	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

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