2 TABLE A (contd.) GOVERNORS AND ADMINISTRATORS In connection with the appointments of Colonel Robe and Sir Henry Young as Lieutenant-Governors, it is interesting to note the following:-    On  31  December  1850,  Sir  Charles  Augustus  Fitzroy,  the  then  Governor  of  New  South  Wales,  who  was  also Governor-General   of   all   H.M. Australian   Possessions,   was   appointed   by   the  Queen’s   Commission   Captain-General   and Governor-in-Chief of South Australia and of Van Dieman’s Land, Sir H.E.F. Young being, by another Royal Commission of same date, “re-constituted and re-appointed” as Lieutenant-Governor of this province, and to act as such in case of the death or absence out of South Australia of Sir C. A. Fitzroy.  Sir H.E.F. Young had been first appointed Lieutenant-Governor on June 8, 1847.  (See Gazette, July 5, 1851).  Sir Charles Fitzroy’s successor, Sir William Thomas Denison, was “Governor-General of H.M. Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and  Western Australia”.  These were the only two New South Wales Governors on whom this extra-provincial office was conferred.  (See Greville’s Year Book of Australia.) ADMINISTRATORS pro tempore Years, in portions of which, Office was Held George Milner Stephen ............................................................................................... 1838 Boyle Travers Finniss ................................................................................................. 1854-55 Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Gilbert Hamley ............................................................... 1868-69 Major James Harwood Rocke, 18th Royal Irish Regiment ......................................... 1870 Hon. Sir Richard Davies Hanson, Knight, Chief Justice ............................................. 1872-73 Sir William Wellington Cairns, K.C.M.G................................................................... 1877 Hon. Samuel James Way, Chief Justice (afterwards Rt. Hon. Sir Samuel James    Way, Bart, P.C., Chief Justice, Lieutenant-Governor)............................................. 1877, 1878, 1879, 1883, 1884, 1886 to 1890, 1892 to 1896, 1898, 1899, 1901 to 1915 (on 65 separate occasions) Hon. James Penn Boucaut, Judge of Supreme Court .................................................. 1885, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1897 Hon. William Henry Bundey, Judge of Supreme Court.............................................. 1888 Hon. Sir George John Robert Murray, K.C.M.G. (1917), LL.M., Chief Justice,    Lieutenant-Governor................................................................................................ 1916 to 1924, 1926 to 1942 (on 103 separate occasions) Hon. Thomas Slaney Poole, M.A., LL.B., Judge of Supreme Court........................... 1925 (on 2 occasions) Hon. Sir Herbert Angas Parsons, Knight (1936), LL.B., Judge of Supreme    Court ........................................................................................................................ 1935 to 1942 (on 6 separate occasions) Hon. Sir John Mellis Napier, Knight (1943), K.C.M.G. (1945), LL.D., Chief    Justice, Lieutenant-Governor ................................................................................... 1942 to 1973 (on 179 separate occasions) Hon. Sir Herbert Mayo, Knight (1948) LL.B., Judge of Supreme Court .................... 1946 to 1965 (on 25 separate occasions) Hon. Sir Geoffrey Sandford Reed, Knight (1953) LL.B., Judge of Supreme    Court ........................................................................................................................ 1951 to 1957 (on 5 separate occasions) Hon. John Jefferson Bray, LL.D., Chief Justice.......................................................... 1968 to 1973 (on 8 separate occasions) Hon. David Stirling Hogarth, B.A., LL.B., Judge of Supreme Court.......................... 1971 Sir Walter Russell Crocker, K.B.E., Lieutenant-Governor ......................................... 1973 to 1982 (on 29 separate occasions) Hon. Sir Condor Louis Laucke, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor .............................. 1982 to 1992 (on 43 separate occasions) Hon. Leonard James King, A.C., Chief Justice........................................................... 1987 Hon. Dr. Basil Stuart Hetzel, A.C., Lieutenant-Governor........................................... 1992 to 2000 (on 32 separate occasions) Hon. John Jeremy Doyle, A.C., Chief Justice ............................................................. 1999- (on 10 separate occasions) Hon. Bruno Krumins, A.M., Lieutenant-Governor ..................................................... 2000- (on 60 separate occasions) Hon. John William Perry, Judge of Supreme Court .................................................... 2002 For greater details see Blue Book Until 1858 a Commission from the Crown, to administer the Government in the absence of the Governor or in the event of there being no Governor or Lieutenant-Governor,  was held by the Senior Member of the Executive Council.  From that year until 1873 a dormant Commission issued in favour of the Officer locally commanding H.M. Forces, or other officer to be appointed by the Major-General commanding the troops in Australia (P.P. 39 of 1863), and from 1873 to the Chief Justice for the time being or Senior Judge (P.P. 35 of 1875, etc., re-affirmed in 1900 P.P. 118 of 1901), though in 1860 Sir Charles Cooper (who was at the time Chief Justice) was appointed, by name, to be Administrator in the event of the death or absence of the Governor (P.P. 139 of 1860).  It was on January 9, 1891, that a Commission was issued to Chief Justice Way, by name, as Lieutenant-Governor (P.P. 37 of 1891), and re-affirmed October 29, 1901 (P.P. 117 of 1901). For appointment of Chief Justice Murray as Lieutenant-Governor, see  P.P. 37 of 1916.  For appointment of Acting Chief Justice Poole  as  Administrator  (April  9  to  November  22,  1925)  in  absence  of  Lieutenant-Governor,  see  Proclamation  Government Gazette, April 9, 1925. Letters Patent constituting the office of Governor amended January 10, 1938, to enable the Governor to appoint the Lieutenant- Governor, or in the event of there being no such officer or if he is absent or unable to act, then any other person to be his deputy during the Governor’s absence or illness. Upon the proclamation of the Australia Act 1986 (C’wlth), Letters Patent dated February 14, 1986, revoked all existing Letters Patent and made provisions in relation to the office of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Administrator and Governor’s Deputy.   Subsequently, an Order in Council by the Governor of the State of South Australia (see Government Gazette, 25 October 2001), made new provisions in relation to the office of Lieutenant-Governor of the State of South Australia and for persons appointed to administer the government of the State.