LEADERS BEFORE INDEPENDENCE (COLONIAL GOVERNORS GENERAL))

Sir Lord Frederick Lugard 1 Jan 1914 - 8 Aug 1919
Sir Hugh Clifford 8 Aug 1919 - 13 Nov 1925
Sir Graeme Thomson 13 Nov 1925 - 17 Jun 1931
Sir Donald Charles Cameron 17 June 1931 - 1 Nov 1935
Sir Bernard Bourdillon 1 Nov 1935 - 1 July 1940
Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh 1 July 1940 - 1942
Sir Alan Cuthbert Burns 1942 - 18 Dec 1943
Sir Arthur Frederick Richards 18 Dec 1943 - 5 Feb 1948
Sir John Stuart Macpherson 5 Feb 1948 - 1 Oct 1954
Sir James Wilson Roberson 15 Jun 1955 – 16 Nov. 1960

• Note that Sir Oliver Lyttleton was never a Governor General instead was the Secretary of the Colonies and was appointed to oversee the Constitutional Conference in 1954.