APPENDIX 3
Evan Nepean, as under secretary of state to Lord Sydney in the Home Department, was chiefly responsible for the arrangements for the First Fleet and the administration of the colony up to 1794. Thereafter it passed into the hands of a succession of secretaries of state for [war and] the colonies:
|
Month appointed |
|
|
H. Dundas |
July 1794 |
|
Lord Hobart |
Mar. 1791 |
|
Earl of Camden |
May 1804 |
|
Viscount Castlereagh |
July 1805 |
|
W. Windham |
Feb. 1806 |
|
Viscount Castlereagh |
Mar. 1807 |
|
Earl of Liverpool |
Nov. 1809 |
|
Earl of Bathurst |
June 1812 |
|
Viscount Goderich |
Apr. 1827 |
|
W. Huskisson |
Sept. 1827 |
|
Sir George Murray |
May 1828 |
|
Viscount Goderich |
Nov. 1830 |
|
E. G. Smith Stanley |
Apr. 1833 |
|
T. Spring Rice |
June 1834 |
|
Duke of Wellington |
Nov. 1834 |
|
Earl of Aberdeen |
Dec. 1834 |
|
C. Grant |
Apr. 1835 |
|
Marquess of Normanby |
Feb. 1839 |
|
Lord John Russell |
Sept. 1839 |
|
Lord Stanley |
Sept. 1841 |
|
W. E. Gladstone |
Dec. 1845 |
|
Earl Grey |
July 1846 |
|
Sir John Pakington |
Feb. 1852 |
|
Duke of Newcastle |
Dec. 1852 |
|
Sir Henry George Grey |
June 1854 |
|
Hon. S. Herbert |
Feb. 1855 |
|
Lord J. Russell |
May 1855 |
|
Sir W. Molesworth |
July 1855 |
|
H. Labouchere |
Nov. 1855 |