List of Lord High Commissioners of the Ionian Islands

Map of the Ionian Islands.

The Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands was the local representative of the British government in the United States of the Ionian Islands between 1816 and 1864, succeeding the earlier office of the Civil Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. At the time, the United States of the Ionian Islands was a federal republic under the amical protection of the United Kingdom, as established under the 1815 Treaty of Paris. Governors were based in Corfu, northernmost of the seven Ionian Islands, which are off the western coast of mainland Greece.

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Civil Commissioners (1809–1816)[]

Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office
John Oswald (1771–1840)^[1]	16 October 1809	February 1811
Richard Church (1784–1873)	February 1811	December 1811
George Airey (1761–1833)	December 1811	1813
Sir James Campbell (1763–1819)	30 April 1813	17 February 1816
Sir Thomas Maitland (1759–1824)	17 February 1816	31 March 1816

Lord High Commissioners (1816–1864)[]

Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office
Sir Thomas Maitland (1759–1824)	31 March 1816	17 January 1824
Sir Frederick Adam (1781–1853)^[2]	7 January 1824	2 June 1832
Sir Alexander George Woodford (1782–1870)^[3]	28 April 1832	1 December 1832
George Nugent-Grenville 2nd Baron Nugent (1788–1850)	1 December 1832	23 February 1835
Sir Alexander George Woodford (1782–1870) (acting)	23 February 1835	29 April 1835
Sir Howard Douglas (1776–1861)	29 April 1835	8 June 1841
James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie (1784–1843)	8 June 1841	17 February 1843
Sir George Berkeley (1785–1857)^[4]	15 September 1842	1 April 1843
John Colborne 1st Baron Seaton (1778–1863)	1 April 1843	2 June 1849
Sir Henry George Ward (1797–1860)	2 June 1849	13 April 1855
Sir George Young (1807–1876)	13 April 1855	25 January 1859
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898)	25 January 1859	17 February 1859
Sir Henry Knight Storks (1811–1874)	17 February 1859	2 June 1864