
Previous Governors
The arrival of the Governor of South Australia, Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet, outside Parliament House in North Terrace, Adelaide in order to open a new Parliamentary Session. July 22, 1913.

1 September 2014 - 31 August 2021
The Honourable Hieu Van Le AC

8 August 2007 - 01 September 2014
Rear Admiral the Honourable Kevin Scarce AC CSC RAN (Rtd)

3 November 2001 - 8 August 2007
The Honourable Marjorie Jackson-Nelson AC CVO MBE

22 Jul 1996 - 3 November 2001
The Honourable Sir Eric James Neal AC CVO

6 February 1991 - 21 July 1996
The Honourable Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell AC DBE CVO

23 April 1982 - 5 February 1991
Lieutenant General Sir Donald Beaumont Dunstan AC KBE CB

1 September 1977 - 28 March 1982
Sir Keith Douglas Seaman KCVO OBE

1 December 1976 - 30 April 1977
Sir Douglas Ralph Nicholls KCVO OBE

1 December 1971 - 30 November 1976
Sir Marcus ‘Mark’ Laurence Elwin Oliphant KBE

4 December 1968 - 16 September 1971
Major General Sir James William Harrison KCMG CB CBE

4 April 1961 - 1June 1968
Lieutenant General Sir Edric Montague Bastyan KCMG KCVO KBE CB

23 February 1953 - 7 March 1960
Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George KCMG KCVO KBE CB MC

19 December 1944 - 19 June 1952
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Willoughby Norrie KCMG CB DSO MC

12 August 1939 - 26 April 1944
Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey KCMG

28 July 1934 - 23 February 1939
Major General Sir Winston Joseph Dugan KCMG CB DSO

14 May 1928 - 26 April 1934
Brigadier the Honourable Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven VC KCMG CB DSO

4 December 1922 - 4 December 1927
Lieutenant General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges KCB KCMG DSO

9 Jun 1920 - 30 May 1922
Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Earnest George Archibald Weigall KCMG

18 April 1914 - 30 April 1920
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway KCMG DSO

18 February 1909 - 22 March 1914
Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet GCVO KCB

1 July 1903 - 18 February -1909
Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte KCMG

10 Apr 1899 - 17 July 1902
The Right Honourable Hallam Lord Tennyson KCMG

29 October 1895 - 29 March 1899
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Bt GCMG

11 April 1889 - 10 April 1895
The Right Honourable The Earl of Kintore GCMG PC

19 February 1883 - 05 March 1889
Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson GCMG

02 October 1877 - 09 January 1883
Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois KCMG CB

09 June 1873 - 29 January 1877
Sir Anthony Musgrave KCMG

16 February 1869 - 18 April 1873
The Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson Bt

04 March 1862 - 19 February 1868
Sir Dominick Daly KCB

08 June 1855 - 04 March 1862
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell KCMG CB

02 August 1848 - 20 December 1854
Sir Henry Edward Fox Young KCMG

25 October 1845 - 02 August 1848
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe CB

15 May 1841 - 25 October 1845
Captain George Grey

17 October 1838 - 15 May 1841
Lieutenant Colonel George Gawler

28 December 1836 - 16 July 1838
Captain John Hindmarsh RN