This is a list of the British High Commissioner

High Commissioner

High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...

s and Governor

Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

s of Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

.

Hitherto a territory of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

, a British protectorate

Protectorate

In history, the term protectorate has two different meanings. In its earliest inception, which has been adopted by modern international law, it is an autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity...

 under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention

Cyprus Convention

The Cyprus Convention of 4 June, 1878 was a secret agreement reached between the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire which granted control of Cyprus to Great Britain in exchange for their support of the Ottomans during the Congress of Berlin...

 of 4 June 1878. The United Kingdom declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914 and annexed

Annexation

Annexation is the de jure incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity . Usually, it is implied that the territory and population being annexed is the smaller, more peripheral, and weaker of the two merging entities, barring physical size...

 Cyprus. Turkey recognised British possession of Cyprus by the Treaty of Lausanne

Treaty of Lausanne

The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 July 1923, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty of Lausanne was ratified by the Greek government on 11 February 1924, by the Turkish government on 31...

 on 24 July 1923 and the island became a Crown Colony

Crown colony

A Crown colony, also known in the 17th century as royal colony, was a type of colonial administration of the English and later British Empire....

 on 10 March 1925. Following the Zürich and London Agreement

Zürich and London Agreement

The Zürich and London Agreement for the constitution of Cyprus started with an agreement on the 19 February 1959 in Lancaster House in London, between Turkey, Greece, the United Kingdom and Cypriot community leaders...

 of 19 February 1959 Cyprus became independent on 16 August 1960.

High Commissioners (1878-1925)

• Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley (22 July 1878 - 23 June 1879)
• Sir Robert Biddulph (23 June 1879 - 9 March 1886)
• Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer
  Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer
  Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer , the nephew of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, was a British colonial administrator and diplomat.Bulwer was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge...
  
   (9 March 1886 - 5 April 1892)
• Sir Walter Joseph Sendall
  Walter Joseph Sendall
  Sir Walter Joseph Sendall GCMG was a British colonial governor.-Life:As Director of Public Instruction in Ceylon, he expanded the system of schools, teaching in English and the vernacular....
  
   (5 April 1892 - 23 April 1898)
• Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith (23 April 1898 - 17 October 1904)
• Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman (17 October 1904 - 12 October 1911)
• Hamilton John Goold-Adams (12 October 1911 - 8 January 1915)
• Sir John Eugene Clauson (8 January 1915 - 31 December 1918) (died in office)
• Sir Malcolm Stevenson
  Malcolm Stevenson
  Sir Malcolm Stevenson KCMG was a British colonial administrator. He served as the Governor of Cyprus and later as the Governor of the Seychelles.-Biography:...
  
   (31 December 1918 - 31 July 1920) (acting)
• Sir Malcolm Stevenson
  Malcolm Stevenson
  Sir Malcolm Stevenson KCMG was a British colonial administrator. He served as the Governor of Cyprus and later as the Governor of the Seychelles.-Biography:...
  
   (31 July 1920 - 10 March 1925)

Governors (1925-1960)

• Sir Malcolm Stevenson
  Malcolm Stevenson
  Sir Malcolm Stevenson KCMG was a British colonial administrator. He served as the Governor of Cyprus and later as the Governor of the Seychelles.-Biography:...
  
   (10 March 1925 - 30 November 1926)
• Sir Ronald Storrs
  Ronald Storrs
  Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs, KCMG, CBE was an official in the British Foreign and Colonial Office. He served as Oriental Secretary in Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia.-Biography:The eldest son of John Storrs, the Dean of Rochester...
  
   (30 November 1926 - 29 October 1932)
• Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs
  Reginald Edward Stubbs
  Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, GCMG was a British colonial governor, who was once the Governor of Hong Kong...
  
   (29 October 1932 - 8 November 1933)
• Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer
  Herbert Richmond Palmer
  Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer KCMG CBE was an English barrister, who became a colonial supervisor for Britain during the inter-World War period...
  
   (8 November 1933 - 4 July 1939)
• William Denis Battershill (4 July 1939 - 3 October 1941)
• Charles Campbell Woolley (3 October 1941 - 24 October 1946)
• Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster (24 October 1946 - 4 August 1949)
• Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright (4 August 1949 - 1954)
• Sir Robert Perceval Armitage
  Robert Perceval Armitage
  Robert Perceval Armitage was a British colonial administrator who held senior positions in Kenya and the Gold Coast, and was Governor of Cyprus and then Nyasaland during the period when the former British colonies were gaining independence.-Early years:Armitage was born on 21 December 1906 in...
  
   (1954 - 25 September 1955)
• Sir John Alan Francis Harding (25 September 1955 - 3 December 1957)
• Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot (3 December 1957 - 16 August 1960)