The Right Honourable Charles Poullet Thompson, Lord Sydenham
Governor-in-Chief, 1841

Major-General John Clitherow
Deputy Governor, 1841

Sir Richards Downes Jackson
Administrator, 1841–1842

The Right Honourable Sir Charles Bagot
Governor General, 1842–1843

The Right Honourable Sir Charles Theophilius Metcalfe, Bart., gcb
Governor General, 1843–1845

Lieutenant-General Charles Murray, Earl Cathcart
Administrator, 1845-1846 / Governor General, 1846–1847

The Right Honourable Sir James Bruce, kt
Earl of Elgin & Kincardine
Governor General, 1847–1854

Lieutenant-General William Rowan, cb
Administrator during the absence of Lord Elgin, 1853–1854

The Right Honourable Sir Edmund Walker Head
Governor General, 1854–1861

Sir William Eyre, kcb
Administrator during the absence of Governor Walker Head, 1857

Sir William Fenwick Williams, Bart.
Administrator during the absence of Governor Walker Head, 1860–1861

The Right Honourable Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck
Governor General, 1861–1866

Lieutenant-General The Honourable Sir John Michel
Administrator during the absence of Lord Monck, n.d.