South Australia: Governors: 1836-1901

Governor and Commander-in-Chief of His (Her) Majesty's Province of South Australia
28 Dec 1836 - 17 Oct 1838	John Hindmarsh
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia
17 Oct 1838 - 15 May 1841	George Gawler
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Province of South Australia
15 May 1841 - 25 Oct 1845	George Grey [1][2]
Lieutenant-Governor of Her Majesty's Province of South Australia
25 Oct 1845 - 2 Aug 1848	Frederick Holt Robe [3]
2 Aug 1848 - 20 Dec 1854	Sir Henry Edward Fox Young [4][5]
Officer Administering the Government of the Province of South Australia and its Dependencies
20 Dec 1854 - 8 Jun 1855	Boyle Travers Finniss [6]
Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Province of South Australia
8 Jun 1855 - 4 Mar 1862	Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
4 Mar 1862 - 19 Feb 1868	Sir Dominick Daly
Officer Administering the Government of the Province of South Australia and its Dependencies
19 Feb 1868 - 16 Feb 1869	Francis Gilbert Hamley
Lieutenant-Governor of Her Majesty's Province of South Australia [7]
16 Feb 1869 - 17 Mar 1869	Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, of Kilkerran in the County of Ayrshire [1]
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty' Province of South Australia and the Dependencies thereof
17 Mar 1869 - 9 Jun 1873	Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, of Kilkerran in the County of Ayrshire
9 Jun 1873 - 2 Oct 1877	Anthony Musgrave (from 1875 Sir Anthony Musgrave) [8]
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of South Australia and the Dependencies thereof
2 Oct 1877 - 19 Feb 1883	Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois [1]
19 Feb 1883 - 11 Apr 1889	Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson [9]
11 Apr 1889 - 29 Oct 1895	Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, Earl of Kintore, Lord Falconer of Halkerton, Lord Keith of Inverurie
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over South Australia and its Dependencies
29 Oct 1895 - 10 Apr 1899	Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
10 Apr 1899 - 1 Jan 1901	Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth, in the County of Sussex, and of Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight [10][11]

Also in New Zealand.
Grey departed for New Zealand on 25 Oct 1845 where he assumed the government as Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand (18 Nov 1845 - 1 Jan 1848). His commission as Governor of South Australia remained valid until its revocation by commission of his successor, Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, proclaimed in South Australia on 5 Jul 1851.
Following the departure of Grey on 25 Oct 1845, the functions of Governor devolved on Lieutenant Governor Robe who took the oath of office on the same day.
Young was appointed as Lieutenant Governor and succeeded Robe on 2 Aug 1848, taking the oaths of office. He was re-appointed to serve during the absence of Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, who had been appointed Governor-General of all Her Majesty's Australian possessions and concurrently as Governor of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, and South Australia. However, FitzRoy was instructed by the British government to refrain from assuming the government of any of these colonies. FitzRoy's and Young's commissions were read and published on 5 Jul 1851 in Adelaide.
Also in Tasmania.
Following the departure of Young on 20 Dec 1854, the functions of Governor devolved on Senior Officer of the Executive Council Finniss who took the oath of office on 21 Dec 1854.
Fergusson was commissioned as "Lieutenant Governor of (the) Colony of South Australia" on 26 Sep 1868. His commission as Lieutenant Governor was read and published in Adelaide on 16 Feb 1869. Pending the arrival of his commission as Governor of South Australia, his style in proclamations was "Governor in and over Her Majesty' Province of South Australia and the Dependencies thereof," where "lieutenant" was deliberately dropped. The second commission was delivered to South Australia and Fergusson was sworn in as Governor on 17 Mar 1869.
Also in Queensland.
Also in Western Australia.
Also in Australia.
The office of Governor of the Colony of South Australia was replaced by that of Governor of the State of South Australia on 1 Jan 1901, when the letters patent constituting the former were revoked and the new letters patent were read and published.