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The Governor of South Australia is the representative in the Australian state of South Australia of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level.
In accordance with the conventions of the Westminster system of parliamentary government, the Governor nearly always acts solely on the advice of the head of the elected government, the Premier of South Australia. Nevertheless, the Governor retains the reserve powers of the Crown, and has the right to dismiss the Premier.
The Westminster system is a form of Constitutional Monarchy.
See Governors of the Australian states for a description and history of the office of Governor.
[edit] List of Governors of South Australia
| No. |
Governor |
From |
To |
| 1 |
Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh KH |
28 December 1836 |
16 July 1838 |
| 2 |
Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler KH |
17 October 1838 |
15 May 1841 |
| 3 |
Sir George Grey KCB |
15 May 1841 |
25 October 1845 |
| 4 |
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Holt Robe |
25 October 1845 |
2 August 1848 |
| 5 |
Sir Henry Fox Young KCMG |
2 August 1848 |
20 December 1854 |
| 6 |
Sir Richard Groves MacDonnell KCMG, CB |
8 June 1855 |
4 March 1862 |
| 7 |
Sir Dominick Daly |
4 March 1862 |
19 February 1868 |
| 8 |
The Rt Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Bt |
16 February 1869 |
18 April 1873 |
| 9 |
Sir Anthony Musgrave KCMG |
9 June 1873 |
29 January 1877 |
| 10 |
Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois GCMG, CB |
2 October 1877 |
9 January 1883 |
| 11 |
Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson GCMG |
19 February 1883 |
5 March 1889 |
| 12 |
The Rt Hon. Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, Earl of Kintore, GCMG |
11 April 1889 |
10 April 1895 |
| 13 |
Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, Bt, GCMG |
29 October 1895 |
29 March 1899 |
| 14 |
The Rt Hon. Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson GCMG |
10 April 1899 |
17 July 1902 |
| 15 |
Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte KCMG |
1 July 1903 |
18 February 1909 |
| 16 |
Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet GCVO, KCB |
18 February 1909 |
22 March 1914 |
| 17 |
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway KCMG, DSO |
18 April 1914 |
30 April 1920 |
| 18 |
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall KCMG |
9 June 1920 |
30 May 1922 |
| 19 |
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir (Tom) George Tom Molesworth Bridges KCB, KCMG, DSO |
4 December 1922 |
4 December 1927 |
| 20 |
Brigadier-General the Rt Hon. Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie, VC, KCMG, CB, DSO & Bar |
14 May 1928 |
26 April 1934 |
| 21 |
Major-General Winston Joseph Dugan, Baron Dugan KCMG, CB, DSO |
28 July 1934 |
23 February 1939 |
| 22 |
Sir (Malcolm) Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey KCMG |
12 August 1939 |
26 April 1944 |
| 23 |
Lieutenant-General Sir (Willoughby) Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie KCMG, CB, DSO, MC |
19 December 1944 |
19 June 1952 |
| 24 |
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB, MC |
23 February 1953 |
7 March 1960 |
| 25 |
Lieutenant-General Sir Edric Montague Bastyan KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB |
4 April 1961 |
1 June 1968 |
| 26 |
Major-General Sir James William Harrison KCMG, CB, CBE |
4 December 1968 |
16 September 1971 |
| 27 |
Professor Sir (Mark) Marcus Lawrence Elwin Oliphant AC, KBE |
1 December 1971 |
30 November 1976 |
| 28 |
Pastor Sir Douglas Ralph Nicholls KCVO, OBE |
1 December 1976 |
30 April 1977 |
| 29 |
Reverend Sir Keith Douglas Seaman KCVO, OBE |
1 September 1977 |
28 March 1982 |
| 30 |
Lieutenant-General Sir Donald Beaumont Dunstan AC, KBE, CB |
23 April 1982 |
5 February 1991 |
| 31 |
The Hon. Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell AC, DBE, CVO, QC |
6 February 1991 |
21 July 1996 |
| 32 |
Sir Eric James Neal AC, CVO |
22 July 1996 |
3 November 2001 |
| 33 |
Mrs. Marjorie Jackson-Nelson AC, CVO, MBE |
3 November 2001 |
31 July 2007 |
| 34 |
Rear Admiral Kevin John Scarce AC, CSC[1] |
8 August 2007 |
[edit] Living former governors
Four former governors are alive, the oldest being Sir Keith Seaman (1977–82, born 1920). The latest-serving former governor to die was Dame Roma Mitchell (1991–1996), on March 5, 2000. The most recent death of a former governor was that of Sir Mark Oliphant (1971–76), on July 14, 2000.
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