Colonial Heads of Kenya

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
British Suzerainty
25 May 1887	Coastal areas granted to the British East Africa Association by the Sultan of Zanzibar
25 May 1887 to 3 September 1888	Sir William Mackinnon, President of the British East Africa Association
3 September 1888 to 1889	Sir William Mackinnon, President of the Imperial British East Africa Company
1889 to 1890	George Sutherland Mackenzie, Administrator
May 1890 to February 1891	Francis Walter de Winton, Administrator
September 1891 to 1892	Lloyd Williams Matthews, Administrator
February 1892 to 1893	Sir Gerald Herbert Portal, Administrator
British East Africa Protectorate
1 July 1895
July 1895 to 1897	Arthur Henry Hardinge, Commissioner
1897 to October 1900	Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge, Commissioner
December 1900 to 1904	Sir Charles Eliot, Commissioner
20 June 1904 to 1 October 1905	Sir Donald William Stewart, Commissioner
12 December 1905 to 31 December 1905	Sir James Hayes Sadler, Commissioner
31 December 1905 to 1909	Sir James Hayes Sadler, Governor
16 September 1909 to July 1912	Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, Governor
3 October 1912 to 1917	Sir Henry Conway Belfield, Governor
1917 to 1919	Sir Charles Calvert Bowring, acting Governor
22 July 1919 to 1920	Sir Edward Northey, Governor
Kenya Colony and Protectorate
1920 to 1922	Sir Edward Northey, Governor
15 August 1922 to 1925	Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon
2 October 1925 to 1930	Edward William Macleay Grigg
13 February 1931 to 1936	Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne
6 April 1937 to 1939	Sir Robert Brooke-Popham
9 January 1940 to 1944	Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore
11 December 1944 to 1952	Sir Philip Euen Mitchell
30 September 1952 to 1959	Sir Evelyn Baring
23 October 1959 to 1962	Sir Patrick Muir Renison
4 January 1963 to 12 December 1963	Malcolm John MacDonald
12 December 1963	Independence as Kenya