For leaders before this see: List of Presidents of the British Virgin Islands

• Edward John Cameron (1887-1894)
• Alexander R. Mackay (1894-1896)
• Nathaniel George Cookman (1896-1903)
• Robert Stephen Earl (1903-1910)
• Thomas Leslie Hardtman Jarvis (1910-1919)
• Herbert Walter Peebles (1919-1922)
• R. Hargrove (1922-1923)
• Otho Lewis Hancock (1923-1926)
• Frank Cecil Clarkson (1926-1934)
• Donald Percy Wailling (1934-1946)
• John Augustus Cockburn Cruikshank (1946-1954)
• Henry Anthony Camilio Howard (1954-1956)
• Geoffrey Pole Allesbrook (1956-1959)
• Gerald Jackson Bryan (1959-1962)
• Martin Samuel Staveley (1962-1967)
• John Sutherland Thomson (1967-1971)

For leaders after this see: List of Governors of the British Virgin Islands