List of colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus information
Governor of British Cyprus
Coat of arms of the governor of Cyprus
Style
His Excellency
Residence
Government House
Appointer
King/Queen of the United Kingdom
Precursor
High Commissioner of Cyprus
Formation
10 March 1925
First holder
Sir Malcolm Stevenson
Final holder
Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot
Abolished
16 August 1960
Succession
President of Cyprus
This article lists the colonial governors and administrators of British Cyprus.
Hitherto Ottoman Cyprus, a territory of the Ottoman Empire, a British protectorate under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878. The United Kingdom declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914 and annexed Cyprus. Turkey recognised British possession of Cyprus by the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923 and the island became a Crown Colony on 10 March 1925. Following the London and Zürich Agreements of 19 February 1959 Cyprus became an independent republic on 16 August 1960, and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1961.
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