The following is a list of the lieutenant governors of New Brunswick. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in New Brunswick came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of New Brunswick in 1786. This list also includes a number of the individuals, primarily Chief Justices, who acted briefly as de facto interim lieutenant governors for short periods of time. For instance, when lieutenant governors died in office. These individuals were generally not sworn in as actual lieutenant governors, they merely temporarily assumed the responsibilities of the Lieutenant Governor until a new person was appointed to the position. These "interim" lieutenant governors are identified in the list below as "admin".
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Monarch Reign |
Premier Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | |||||
| 1 | 
|
Thomas Carleton (1735–1817) |
20 May 1786 |
2 February 1817[n 1] |
George III (1760–1820) |
None |
| – | 
|
Gabriel George Ludlow (1736–1808) Acting |
5 October 1805 |
12 February 1808 | ||
| – |
|
Edward Winslow (1746/1747–1815) Acting |
20 February 1808 |
24 May 1808 | ||
| – | 
|
Sir Martin Hunter GCH (1757–1846) Acting |
24 May 1808 |
17 December 1808 | ||
| – |
|
George Johnstone (died 1825) Acting |
17 December 1808 |
28 April 1809 | ||
| – |
|
Sir Martin Hunter GCH (1757–1846) Acting |
28 April 1809 |
10 September 1811 | ||
| – |
|
William Balfour (1758–1811) Acting |
10 September 1811 |
14 November 1811 | ||
| – |
|
Sir Martin Hunter GCH (1757–1846) Acting |
14 November 1811 |
15 June 1812 | ||
| – |
|
George Stracey Smyth (1814–1892) |
15 June 1812 |
17 August 1813 | ||
| – | 
|
Sir Thomas Saumarez (1760–1845) Acting |
17 August 1813 |
14 August 1814 | ||
| – |
|
George Stracey Smyth (1767–1823) Acting |
14 August 1814 |
25 June 1816 | ||
| – |
|
Harris W. Hailes (1752–1819) Acting |
25 June 1816 |
30 June 1817 | ||
| 2 |
|
George Stracey Smyth (1767–1823) |
1 July 1817 |
27 March 1823 | ||
| George IV (1820–1830) | ||||||
| 3 | 
|
Sir Howard Douglas 3rd Baronet FRS (1776–1861) |
28 August 1824 |
8 September 1831 | ||
| William IV (1830–1837) | ||||||
| 4 | 
|
Sir Archibald Campbell 1st Baronet GCB (1769–1843) |
9 September 1831 |
1 May 1837 | ||
| 5 | 
|
Sir John Harvey KCH (1778–1852) |
1 May 1837 |
26 April 1841 | ||
| Victoria (1837–1901) | ||||||
| 6 |
|
Sir William Colebrooke (1787–1870) |
27 April 1841 |
11 April 1848 | ||
| 7 | 
|
Sir Edmund Walker Head 8th Baronet KCB (1805–1868) |
11 April 1848 |
28 September 1854 | ||
| 8 | 
|
John Manners-Sutton (1814–1877) |
7 October 1854 |
26 October 1861 | ||
| Charles Fisher (1854–1856) | ||||||
| John Hamilton Gray (1856–1857) | ||||||
| Charles Fisher (1857–1861) | ||||||
| Samuel Leonard Tilley (1861–1865) | ||||||
| 9 | 
|
Arthur Hamilton-Gordon (1829–1912) |
26 October 1861 |
30 September 1866 | ||
| Albert James Smith (1865–1866) | ||||||
| Peter Mitchell (1866–1867) | ||||||
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Monarch Reign |
Premier Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | |||||
| 1 | 
|
Charles Hastings Doyle (1803–1883) |
1 July 1867 |
18 October 1867 |
Victoria (1837–1901) |
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (1867–1870) |
| 2 |
|
Francis Pym Harding CB (1821–1875) |
18 October 1867 |
23 July 1868 | ||
| 3 |
|
Lemuel Allan Wilmot (1809–1878) |
23 July 1868 |
15 November 1873 | ||
| George Edwin King (1870–1871) | ||||||
| George Luther Hathaway (1871–1872) | ||||||
| George Edwin King (1872–1878) | ||||||
| 4 | 
|
Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley KCMG, PC (1821–1875) |
15 November 1873 |
16 July 1878 | ||
| John James Fraser (1878–1882) | ||||||
| 5 | 
|
Edward Barron Chandler (1800–1880) |
16 July 1878 |
6 February 1880 | ||
| – | 
|
Sir John Campbell Allen (1817–1898) Administrator of the Government |
6 February 1880 |
11 February 1880 | ||
| 6 | 
|
Robert Duncan Wilmot PC (1817–1898) |
11 February 1880 |
11 November 1885 | ||
| Daniel Lionel Hanington (1882–1883) | ||||||
| Andrew George Blair (1883–1896) | ||||||
| (4) |
|
Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley KCMG, PC (1821–1875) |
11 November 1885 |
21 September 1893 | ||
| 7 | 
|
John Boyd (1826–1893) |
21 September 1893 |
4 December 1893 | ||
| – |
|
Sir John Campbell Allen (1817–1898) Administrator of the Government |
4 December 1893 |
20 December 1893 | ||
| 8 | 
|
John James Fraser (1829–1896) |
20 December 1893 |
24 November 1896 | ||
| James Mitchell (1896–1897) | ||||||
| – |
|
William Henry Tuck (1831–1913) Administrator of the Government |
24 November 1896 |
9 December 1896 | ||
| 9 | 
|
Abner Reid McClelan (1831–1917) |
9 December 1896 |
28 January 1902 | ||
| Henry Emmerson (1897–1900) | ||||||
| Lemuel John Tweedie (1900–1907) | ||||||
| Edward VII (1901–1910) | ||||||
| 10 | 
|
Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907) |
28 January 1902 |
24 February 1907 | ||
| – |
|
William Henry Tuck (1831–1913) Administrator of the Government |
24 February 1907 |
5 March 1907 | ||
| William Pugsley (1907) | ||||||
| 11 | 
|
Lemuel John Tweedie (1849–1917) |
5 March 1907 |
6 March 1912 | ||
| Clifford William Robinson (1907–1908) | ||||||
| John Douglas Hazen (1908–1911) | ||||||
| George V (1910–1936) | ||||||
| James Kidd Flemming (1911–1914) | ||||||
| 12 | 
|
Josiah Wood (1843–1927) |
6 March 1912 |
29 June 1917 | ||
| George Johnson Clarke (1914–1917) | ||||||
| James Alexander Murray (1917) | ||||||
| Walter Edward Foster (1917–1923) | ||||||
| 13 | 
|
Gilbert Ganong (1851–1917) |
29 March 1917 |
31 October 1917 | ||
| – | 
|
John Douglas Hazen (1860–1937) Administrator of the Government |
31 October 1917 |
6 November 1917 | ||
| 14 | 
|
William Pugsley PC, KC (1850–1925) |
6 November 1917 |
28 February 1923 | ||
| 15 |
|
William Frederick Todd (1854–1935) |
28 February 1923 |
28 December 1928 |
Peter Veniot (1923–1925) | |
| John Babington Macaulay Baxter (1925–1931) | ||||||
| 16 | 
|
Hugh Havelock McLean (1854–1938) |
28 December 1928 |
8 February 1935 | ||
| Charles Dow Richards (1931–1933) | ||||||
| Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (1933–1935) | ||||||
| 17 |
|
Murray MacLaren (1861–1942) |
8 February 1935 |
5 March 1940 | ||
| Allison Dysart (1935–1940) | ||||||
| Edward VIII (1936) | ||||||
| George VI (1936–1952) | ||||||
| 18 |
|
William George Clark (1865–1948) |
5 March 1940 |
1 November 1945 | ||
| John B. McNair (1940–1952) | ||||||
| 19 |
|
David Laurence MacLaren (1893–1960) |
1 November 1945 |
5 June 1958 | ||
| Elizabeth II (1952–2022) | ||||||
| Hugh John Flemming (1952–1960) | ||||||
| 20 |
|
Joseph Leonard O'Brien (1895–1973) |
5 June 1958 |
9 June 1965 | ||
| Louis Robichaud (1960–1970) | ||||||
| 21 |
|
John B. McNair CC (1889–1968) |
9 June 1965 |
1 February 1968 | ||
| 22 |
|
Wallace Samuel Bird (1917–1971) |
1 February 1968 |
2 October 1971 | ||
| Richard Hatfield (1970–1987) | ||||||
| – |
|
George F. G. Bridges Administrator of the Government |
2 October 1971 |
8 October 1971 | ||
| 23 |
|
Hédard Robichaud OC, PC (1911–1999) |
8 October 1971 |
23 December 1981 | ||
| 24 | 
|
George Stanley OC (1907–2002) |
23 December 1981 |
20 August 1987 | ||
| 25 |
|
Gilbert Finn OC (1920–2015) |
20 August 1987 |
21 June 1994 | ||
| Frank McKenna (1987–1997) | ||||||
| 26 | 
|
Margaret McCain (born 1934) |
21 June 1994 |
18 April 1997 | ||
| 27 |
|
Marilyn Trenholme Counsell (born 1933) |
18 April 1997 |
26 August 2003 | ||
| Ray Frenette (1997–1998) | ||||||
| Camille Thériault (1998–1999) | ||||||
| Bernard Lord (1999–2006) | ||||||
| 28 | 
|
Herménégilde Chiasson ONB (born 1946) |
26 August 2003 |
30 September 2009 | ||
| Shawn Graham (2006–2010) | ||||||
| 29 |
|
Graydon Nicholas ONB (born 1946) |
30 September 2009 |
23 October 2014 | ||
| David Alward (2010–2014) | ||||||
| Brian Gallant (2014–2018) | ||||||
| 30 | 
|
Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau ONB (1956–2019) |
23 October 2014 |
2 August 2019 | ||
| Blaine Higgs (since 2018) | ||||||
| 31 | 
|
Brenda Murphy ONB (born 1958/1959) |
8 September 2019 |
Incumbent | ||
| Charles III (since 2022) | ||||||
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