The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
Governors of New Zealand
Governors of New Zealand.
1. | James Busby, Esquire, was British resident at the Bay of Islands, from 1836 to 1840. He was the first British officer stationed in New Zealand. * |
2. | Captain Hobson, R.N., came in February 1840, and died in Auckland, September 10, 1842. |
3. | Lieutenant Shortland, R.N., Colonial Secretary, Acting Governor fifteen months. |
4. | Captain Fitzroy, from December 1843 to November 1845.page 317 |
5 & 6. | Sir George Grey, from 1845 to 1854, (made Governor-in-Chief, with Mr. Eyre, from 1847, as Lieutenant-Governor.) |
7. | Colonel Wynyard, Acting-Governor, from January 1854 to September 1855. The New Zealand Constitution. |
8. | Colonel Gore Browne, from October 1855 to September 1861. |
9. | Sir George Grey, from September 1861. |
Mr. Enderby had the title of Lieutenant-Governor of the Auckland Isles conferred upon him, but his reign was short and destitute of interest. He commenced a settlement in one of the Auckland Isles in 1850, as the head of a Whaling Company. |
* Being totally without means of maintaining his authority, the natives compared him to “a man of war without guns.”