| 1788-1792 |
Captain (later Vice-Admiral) Arthur Phillip, RN |
| 1795-1800 |
Captain John Hunter, RN |
| 1800-1806 |
Captain Philip Gidley King, RN |
| 1806-1808 |
Captain (later Vice-Admiral) William Bligh, RN |
| 1810-1821 |
Colonel ( later Major-General) Lachlan Macquarie |
| 1821-1825 |
Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Bart. KCB |
| 1825-1831 |
Lieutenant-General (later Sir) Ralph Darling |
| 1831-1837 |
Major-General Sir Richard Bourke, KCB |
| 1838-1846 |
Sir George Gipps, Kt Bach. |
| 1846-1855 |
Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, KCH, KCB |
| 1855-1861 |
Sir William Thomas Denison, KCB |
| 1861-1867 |
Sir John Young, Bart. PC, KCB, GCMG (later 1st Baron Lisgar) |
| 1867-1872 |
Earl of Belmore (Sir Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry), PC Ireland, GCMG |
| 1872-1879 |
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, GCMG (later Baron Rosmead) |
| 1879-1885 |
Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, PC, GCB |
| 1885-1890 |
Baron Carrington (Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington), PC, GCMG (later Marquess of Lincolnshire) |
| 1891-1893 |
Earl of Jersey (Victor Albert George Child Villiers), PC, GCMG |
| 1893-1895 |
Sir Robert William Duff, PC, GCMG |
| 1895-1899 |
Viscount Hampden (Henry Robert Brand), GCMG |
| 1899-1901 |
Earl Beauchamp (William Lygon), KCMG |
| 1902-1909 |
Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, KCB |
| 1909-1913 |
Baron Chelmsford (Frederic John Napier Thesiger), GCMG (later Viscount Chelmsford) |
| 1913-1917 |
Sir Gerald Strickland, Count della Catena, KCMG |
| 1918-1923 |
Sir Walter Edward Davidson, KCMG |
| 1924-1930 |
Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair, KCB, MVO |
| 1930-1935 |
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, GBE, KCB, DSO |
| 1935-1936 |
Brigadier-General the Hon. Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, VC, GCMG, CB, DSO |
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(later Lord Gowrie of Canberra and Dirleton) |
| 1936-1936 |
Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson, KCB, KCMG, MVO |
| 1937-1945 |
Baron Wakehurst (Captain the Rt. Hon. John de Vere Loder), KCMG |
| 1946-1957 |
General Sir John Northcott, KCMG, KCVO, CB, KtStJ |
| 1957-1965 |
Lieutenant-General Sir Eric Winslow Woodward, KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO |
| 1966-1981 |
Sir Arthur Roden Cutler, VC, AK, KCMG, KCVO, CBE |
| 1981-1989 |
Air Marshal Sir James Anthony Rowland, AC, KBE, DFC, AFC |
| 1989-1990 |
Rear Admiral Sir David James Martin, KCMG, AO |
| 1990-1996 |
Rear Admiral Peter Ross Sinclair, AC |
| 1996- |
The Hon. Gordon Jacob Samuels, AC |
