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<th width="30%" align=left>Incumbent
<th width="40%" align=left>Notes
| Nyasaland Districts Protectorate
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| 1 February 1891 to 1893 | Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Commissioner
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| British Central Africa Protectorate
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| 1893 to 16 April 1896 | Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Commissioner
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| 16 April 1896 to 1 April 1907 | Sir Alfred Sharpe, Commissioner
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| Nyasaland
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| 1 April 1907 to September 1907 | Francis Barrow Pearce, acting Commissioner
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| October 1907 to 1 May 1908 | Sir William Henry Manning, acting Governor | 1st Term
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| 1 May 1908 to 1 April 1910 | Sir Alfred Sharpe, Governor
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| 1 April 1910 to 4 July 1910 | Francis Barrow Pearce, acting Governor
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| 4 July 1910 to 6 February 1911 | Henry Richard Wallis, acting Governor
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| 6 February 1911 to 23 September 1913 | Sir William Henry Manning, acting Governor | 2nd Term
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| 23 September 1913 to 1914 | George Smith, Governor
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| 1914 to 12 April 1923 | Sir George Smith, Governor
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| 12 April 1923 to 27 March 1924 | Richard Sims Donkin Rankine, acting Governor
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| 27 March 1924 to 30 May 1929 | Sir Charles Calvert Bowring, Governor
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| 30 May 1929 to 7 November 1929 | Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston, acting Governor
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| 7 November 1929 to 1930 | Shenton Thomas, Governor
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| 1930 to 22 November 1932 | Sir Shenton Thomas, Governor
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| 22 November 1932 to 9 April 1934 | Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, Governor
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| 9 April 1934 to 21 September 1934 | Kenneth Lambert Hall, acting Governor
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| 21 September 1934 to 20 March 1939 | Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster, Governor
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| 20 March 1939 to 8 August 1942 | Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy, Governor
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| 8 August 1942 to 27 March 1947 | Sir Edmund Charles Smith Richards, Governor
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| 30 March 1947 to 1949 | Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Governor
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| 1949 to 1 August 1953 | Sir Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Governor
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| 1 August 1953 to 31 December 1963 | Incorporated into the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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| 1 August 1953 to 10 April 1956 | Sir Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Governor
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| 10 April 1956 to 10 April 1961 | Sir Robert Perceval Armitage, Governor
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| 10 April 1961 to 6 July 1964 | Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones, Governor
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| 6 July 1964 | Independence as Malawi
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