List of colonial governors of Nyasaland

List of Colonial Heads of Malawi (Nyasaland)

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Term	Incumbent	Notes
Nyasaland Districts Protectorate
1 February 1891 to 1893	Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Commissioner
British Central Africa Protectorate
1893 to 16 April 1896	Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Commissioner
16 April 1896 to 1 April 1907	Sir Alfred Sharpe, Commissioner
Nyasaland
1 April 1907 to September 1907	Francis Barrow Pearce, acting Commissioner
October 1907 to 1 May 1908	Sir William Henry Manning, acting Governor	1st Term
1 May 1908 to 1 April 1910	Sir Alfred Sharpe, Governor
1 April 1910 to 4 July 1910	Francis Barrow Pearce, acting Governor
4 July 1910 to 6 February 1911	Henry Richard Wallis, acting Governor
6 February 1911 to 23 September 1913	Sir William Henry Manning, acting Governor	2nd Term
23 September 1913 to 1914	George Smith, Governor
1914 to 12 April 1923	Sir George Smith, Governor
12 April 1923 to 27 March 1924	Richard Sims Donkin Rankine, acting Governor
27 March 1924 to 30 May 1929	Sir Charles Calvert Bowring, Governor
30 May 1929 to 7 November 1929	Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston, acting Governor
7 November 1929 to 1930	Shenton Thomas, Governor
1930 to 22 November 1932	Sir Shenton Thomas, Governor
22 November 1932 to 9 April 1934	Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, Governor
9 April 1934 to 21 September 1934	Kenneth Lambert Hall, acting Governor
21 September 1934 to 20 March 1939	Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster, Governor
20 March 1939 to 8 August 1942	Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy, Governor
8 August 1942 to 27 March 1947	Sir Edmund Charles Smith Richards, Governor
30 March 1947 to 1949	Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Governor
1949 to 1 August 1953	Sir Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Governor
1 August 1953 to 31 December 1963	Incorporated into the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
1 August 1953 to 10 April 1956	Sir Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Governor
10 April 1956 to 10 April 1961	Sir Robert Perceval Armitage, Governor
10 April 1961 to 6 July 1964	Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones, Governor
6 July 1964	Independence as Malawi

For continuation after independence, see: Heads of State of Malawi