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This is a list of the resident commissioners of the New Hebrides, an Anglo-French condominium encompassing the territory of the present-day Republic of Vanuatu, that was divided into two separate communities: one Anglophone and one Francophone.^[1]

List of officeholders

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
British Administration of New Hebrides
Subordinated to the High Commissioners for the Western Pacific (at Fiji to 1952, then at the Solomon Islands)
1887 to 1902	British Naval Commission
1902 to 1907	Ernest Goldfinch Rason, Resident Commissioner
December 1907 to 1924	Merton King, Resident Commissioner
1924 to 17 August 1927	Geoffrey Bingham Whistler Smith-Rewse, Resident Commissioner
1927 to 1940	George Joy, Resident Commissioner
1940 to 1950	Richard Denis Blandy, Resident Commissioner
1950 to 1955	Hubert James Marlowe Flaxman, Resident Commissioner	From 10 June 1954, Sir Hubert James Marlowe Flaxman
1955 to 1962	John Shaw Rennie, Resident Commissioner
1962 to 1966	Alexander Mair Wilkie, Resident Commissioner
1966 to 1973	Colin Hamilton Allan, Resident Commissioner
1973 to 1975	Roger William Houssemayne du Boulay, Resident Commissioner
1975 to October 1978	John Stuart Champion, Resident Commissioner
November 1978 to 1980	Andrew Christopher Stuart, Resident Commissioner
30 July 1980	Independence as Republic of Vanuatu^[2]

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
French Administration of New Hebrides
Subordinated to the High Commissioners in the Pacific Ocean (from 22 March 1907 the Governors of New Caledonia)
1887 to 1901	French Naval Commission
1901 to 1904	Gaudence Charles Faraut, Resident Commissioner
1904 to January 1908	Charles Bord, Resident Commissioner
1908 to 1909	Charles Henri Adrien Noufflard, Resident Commissioner
1909 to 1911	Jules Martin, Resident Commissioner
1911 to 1913	Jules Vincent Repiquet, Resident Commissioner
1913 to 1916	Jacques Louis Miramende, Resident Commissioner	1st time
1916 to 1918	Edmond Lippmann, Resident Commissioner
1918 to 1919	Lucien Huques Arthur Nielly, Resident Commissioner
1919 to 1920	Alfred Solari, Resident Commissioner
1920 to 1921	Jacques Louis Miramende, Resident Commissioner	2nd time
1921 to 1923	Henri Joseph Marie d'Arboussier, Resident Commissioner	1st time
1923 to 1925	Auguste Adolphe Joseph Marie Raoul de la Vaissière, Resident Commissioner
1925 to 1929	Henri Joseph Marie d'Arboussier, Resident Commissioner	2nd time
1929 to 1930	Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly, Resident Commissioner
1930 to 1931	Maurice Georges Tronet, Resident Commissioner
1931 to 1933	Antoine Louis Carlotti, Resident Commissioner
1933 to 1935	Henri Sautot, Resident Commissioner	1st time
1935 to 1937	Fernand Gaston Georges Émile Robert Casimir, Resident Commissioner
1937 to 1940	Henri Sautot, Resident Commissioner	2nd time
1940 to 1947	Robert Charles Henri Kuter, Resident Commissioner
1947 to 1949	André Ménard, Resident Commissioner
1949 to 1958	Pierre Amédée Joseph Émile Jean Anthonioz, Resident Commissioner
1958 to 1960	Benjamin Marcel Favreau, Resident Commissioner
1960 to 1965	Maurice Charles Jules Delauney, Resident Commissioner
1965 to 1969	Jacques Mouradian, Resident Commissioner
1969 to 1974	Robert Jules Amédée Langlois, Resident Commissioner
1974 to 1978	Robert Gauger, Resident Commissioner
1978	Bernard Pottier, Resident Commissioner
1978 to 1980	Jean-Jacques Robert, Resident Commissioner
30 July 1980	Independence as Republic of Vanuatu^[2]

For continuation after independence, see: President of Vanuatu

References

^ Blais, Hélène (2019). "Sharing Colonial Sovereignty? The Anglo-French Experience of the New Hebrides Condominium, 1880s–1930s". In Fichter, James R. (ed.). British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Springer International Publishing. pp. 225–247. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97964-9_10. ISBN 9783319979649. S2CID 201397581.
^ ^a ^b "British-French Control Ends in New Hebrides, Now Named Vanuatu". New York Times. Associated Press. 30 July 1980. Retrieved 29 May 2022.