List of Resident Commissioners of the New Hebrides

This is a list of Resident Commissioners of the New Hebrides.

Term Incumbent Notes
British Administration of New Hebrides
Subordinated to the High Commissioners for the Western Pacific (at Fiji to 1952, then at the Solomon Islands)
1887 to 1902British Naval Commission
1902 to 1907Ernest Goldfinch Rason, Resident Commissioner
December 1907 to 1924Merton King, Resident Commissioner
1924 to 17 August 1927Geoffrey Bingham Whistler Smith-Rewse, Resident Commissioner
1927 to 1940George Andrew Joy, Resident Commissioner
1940 to 1950Richard Denis Blandy, Resident Commissioner
1950 to 1955Hubert James Marlowe Flaxman, Resident CommissionerFrom 10 June 1954, Sir Hubert James Marlowe Flaxman
1955 to 1962John Shaw Rennie, Resident Commissioner
1962 to 1966Alexander Mair Wilkie, Resident Commissioner
1966 to 1973Colin Hamilton Allan, Resident Commissioner
1973 to 1975Roger William Houssemayne du Boulay, Resident Commissioner
1975 to October 1978John Stuart Champion, Resident Commissioner
November 1978 to 1980Andrew Christopher Stuart, Resident Commissioner
30 July 1980Independence as Republic of Vanuatu
Term Incumbent Notes
French Administration of New Hebrides
Subordinated to the High Commissioners in the Pacific Ocean (from 22 March 1907 the Governors of New Caledonia)
1887 to 1901French Naval Commission
1901 to 1904Gaudence Charles Faraut, Resident Commissioner
1904 to January 1908Charles Bord, Resident Commissioner
1908 to 1909Charles Henri Adrien Noufflard, Resident Commissioner
1909 to 1911Jules Martin, Resident Commissioner
1911 to 1913Jules Vincent Repiquet, Resident Commissioner
1913 to 1916Jacques Louis Miramende, Resident Commissioner1st time
1916 to 1918Edmond Lippmann, Resident Commissioner
1918 to 1919Lucien Huques Arthur Nielly, Resident Commissioner
1919 to 1920Alfred Solari, Resident Commissioner
1920 to 1921Jacques Louis Miramende, Resident Commissioner2nd time
1921 to 1923Henri Joseph Marie d'Arboussier, Resident Commissioner1st time
1923 to 1925Auguste Adolphe Joseph Marie Raoul de la Vaissière, Resident Commissioner
1925 to 1929Henri Joseph Marie d'Arboussier, Resident Commissioner2nd time
1929 to 1930Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly, Resident Commissioner
1930 to 1931Maurice Georges Tronet, Resident Commissioner
1931 to 1933Antoine Louis Carlotti, Resident Commissioner
1933 to 1935Henri Camille Sautot, Resident Commissioner1st time
1935 to 1937Fernand Gaston Georges Émile Robert Casimir, Resident Commissioner
1937 to 1940Henri Camille Sautot, Resident Commissioner2nd time
1940 to 1947Robert Charles Henri Kuter, Resident Commissioner
1947 to 1949André Ménard, Resident Commissioner
1949 to 1958Pierre Amédée Joseph Émile Jean Anthonioz, Resident Commissioner
1958 to 1960Benjamin Marcel Favreau, Resident Commissioner
1960 to 1965Maurice Charles Jules Delauney, Resident Commissioner
1965 to 1969Jacques Mouradian, Resident Commissioner
1969 to 1974Robert Jules Amédée Langlois, Resident Commissioner
1974 to 1978Robert Gauger, Resident Commissioner
1978Bernard Pottier, Resident Commissioner
1978 to 1980Jean-Jacques Robert, Resident Commissioner
30 July 1980Independence as Republic of Vanuatu

For continuation after independence, see: President of Vanuatu

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