Sir Richard Turnbull

1938-1941 Mark Aitchinson Young

1941-1945 Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson

1945-1949 William Dennis Battershill

1949-1958 Edward Francis Twining

1958-1961 Richard Gordon Turnbull

In July 1958, Sir Richard Turnbull had succeeded Sir Edward Twining as Governor. He had previously been chief secretary in Kenya, during the Emergency, and he had seen the violence and bloodshed which had resulted from a people's discontent with their conditions and the slowness of their political advance.

Sir Richard Turnbull summoned Julius Nyerere and asked him to form a government

Sir Richard Turnbull summoned Julius Nyerere and asked him to form a government