List of heads of government of the Raj of Sarawak
# List of heads of government of the Raj of Sarawak

This article lists the heads of government of the Raj of Sarawak from 1843 to 1946, when the Raj of Sarawak was ceded to the United Kingdom and became the Crown Colony of Sarawak.

## List

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

| No. | Name | Term | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| Chief Minister |||||
| 1 | Thomas Williamson | 1843–1846 | |
| Resident |||||
| 2 | Arthur Chichester Crookshank | 1863–1873 | |
| Chairman of the Committee of Administration |||||
| 3 | William Maunder Crocker | 1875–1880 | |
| 4 | Francis Richard Ord Maxwell | 1881–1895 | Sarawak was made a British protectorate in 1888 |
| 5 | Charles Agar Bampfylde | 1896–1903 | |
| 6 | Henry FitzGibbon Deshon | 1903–1904 | |
| 7 | Sir Percy Francis Cunynghame | 1904–1909 | |
| 8 | Harry Robert Arbuthnot Day | 1909–1910 | |
| 9 | Ivone Kirkpatrick-Caldecott | 1910–1915 | |
| 10 | Arthur Bartlett Ward | 1915–1923 | |
| Chief Secretary and Chairman of the Committee of Administration |||||
| 11 | John Coney Moulton | 1923–1926 | |
| 12 | Harold Brooke Crocker | 1927–1928 | |
| 13 | Charles Vyner Brooke | 1928–1930 | 1st time. Simultaneously reigned as the White Rajah |
| 14 | Sir Francis Farrington Boult | 1930 | |
| | James Colin Swayne | 1930 | 1st time, acting |
| (13) | Charles Vyner Brooke | 1930–1931 | 2nd time. Simultaneously reigned as the White Rajah |
| | James Colin Swayne | 1931–1932 | 2nd time, acting |
| 15 | Charles Macaskie | 1932–1934 | Government secretary |
| (13) | Charles Vyner Brooke | 1934–1937 | 3rd time. Simultaneously reigned as the White Rajah |
| 16 | Edward Parnell | 1937–1939 | |
| 17 | John Beville Archer | 1939–1941 | 1st time |
| 18 | Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark | May 1941 – 25 December 1941 | On 31 March 1941, Le Gros Clark announced the decision of the White Rajah, Charles Vyner Brooke, to introduce a democratic constitution. Japanese prisoner December 1941 – 6 July 1945 during the Japanese occupation of British Borneo, executed two months before the Surrender of Japan |
| | Vacant | 25 December 1941 – 1946 | |
| (17) | John Beville Archer | 1946 – 1 July 1946 | 2nd time. Japanese prisoner December 1941 – 1945 during the Japanese occupation of British Borneo. The first and only officeholder following the Borneo campaign |
