This is a list of the heads of government of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (1893–1975) and the dependent Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...

 (1975–1978).

Resident Commissioners of the Solomon Islands Protectorate (1896–1953)

The Resident Commissioner

Resident Commissioner

Resident Commissioner is the title of several, quite different types of Commissioner in overseas possession or protectorate of the British Crown or of the United States.-British English:...

s were subordinate to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific who was, until 3 July 1952, the Governor of Fiji

Governor of Fiji

Fiji was a British Crown Colony from 1874 to 1970, and an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth from 1970 to 1987. During this period, the Head of State was the British Monarch, but in practice his or her functions were normally exercised locally by the Governor prior to independence ,...

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• Charles Morris Woodford
  Charles Morris Woodford
  Sir Charles Morris Woodford was a British naturalist and government minister active in the Solomon Islands. He became the first Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1896 until 1915.-Life before appointment:In the early 1880s, Woodford worked for a time for...
  
   (1896–1915)
• Frederick Joshua Barnett (1915–1917)
• Charles Rufus Marshall Workman (1917–1921)
• Richard Rutledge Kane
  Richard Rutledge Kane
  Captain Richard Rutledge Kane was the United Kingdom's fourth Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1921 to 1929....
  
   (1921–1929)
• Francis Noel Ashley (1929–1939)
• William Sydney Marchant (1939–1943)
• Owen Cyril Noel (1943–1950)
• Henry Graham Gregory-Smith (1950– 1 January 1953)

Governors of the Solomon Islands (1953–1978)

From 1 January 1953, the Governor of the Solomon Islands was also the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and exercised direct administration from Honiara

Honiara

Honiara, population 49,107 , 78,190 , is the capital of the Solomon Islands and of Guadalcanal Province, although it is a separately administered town...

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• Robert Christopher Stafford Stanley (3 July 1952–1955)
• John Gutch
  John Gutch
  John Gutch was an Anglican clergyman and official of the University of Oxford. He was also an antiquarian, with a particular interest in the history of the university.-Life:...
  
   (1955 – 4 March 1961)
• David Trench (4 March 1961 – 16 June 1964)
• Robert Sidney Foster
  Robert Sidney Foster
  Sir Robert Sidney Foster, GCMG, KCVO was a British colonial administrator, best remembered as the last colonial Governor of Fiji and the first Governor-General of the Dominion of Fiji.-Colonial service:...
  
   (16 June 1964 – 1968)
• Michael David Irving Gass
  Michael David Irving Gass
  Sir Michael David Irving Gass, KCMG , was the penultimate High Commissioner of the Western Pacific and also in his junior days Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1965 - 1969.He married Elizabeth Periam Fuller Acland Hood in 1975....
  
   (6 March 1969 – 1973)
• Donald Collin Cumyn Luddington (1973–1976)
• Colin Allan
  Colin Allan
  Sir Colin Hamilton Allan KCMG, OBE is a New Zealander who was a British Governor and High Commissioner. He was also an author and lecturer.-Background:...
  
   (1976 – 7 July 1978)

See also

• Governor-General of the Solomon Islands
  Governor-General of the Solomon Islands
  The Governor-General of Solomon Islands is the representative of the Queen of Solomon Islands, Elizabeth II. The Queen does not reside in the islands, and so the Governor-General serves as the country's de facto head of state in her absence....
  
  
• List of Prime Ministers of the Solomon Islands
• British Western Pacific Territories
  British Western Pacific Territories
  The British Western Pacific Territories was the name of a colonial entity, created in 1877, for the administration, under a single representative of the British Crown, styled High Commissioner, of a series of relatively minor Pacific islands in and around Oceania...