Kenya (01)

1887-1963 British rule


1887-1895

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1885 25 may UK East Africa colony Sir William Mackinnon
1888 3 september George Sutherland Mackenzie (I)
1890 may Sir Francis de Winton
1891 february George Sutherland Mackenzie (I)
1891 Ernest Berkeley
1891 september Lloyd Williams Matthews
1892 february Gerald Herbert Portal
1892 february John Pigott
1895 january Arthur Henry Hardinge

1895-1963

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1895 1 july UK East Africa Protectorate Arthur Henry Hardinge
1900 december Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot
1904 20 june Sir Donald William Stewart
1905 12 december Sir James Hayes Sadler
1909 16 september Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard
1912 3 october Sir Henry Conway Belfield
1919 22 august Sir Edward Northey
1920 23 july UK colony
1922 15 august Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon
1925 2 october Edward William Macleag Grigg
1931 13 february Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne
1937 6 april Sir Robert Brooke-Popham
1940 9 january Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore
1944 11 december Sir Philip Euen Mitchell
1952 30 september Sir Evelyn Baring
1959 23 october Sir Patrick Muir Renison
1963 4 january UK self-governing colony Jomo Kenyatta Malcolm John MacDonald


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