Former and Present Heads
(Date of Appointment)
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Chief Magistrate (Also in charge of the Gaol)Captain William Caine30 April 1841
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Governor of the GaolJoseph Scott25 August 1858
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Superintendent of Victoria GaolFrancis Douglas4 August 1863
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Alfred Lister28 June 1874
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Malcolm Struan Tonnochy10 February 1875
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Major General
Alexander Herman Adam Gordon28 March 1885 -
Henry Bridgeman Henderson Lethbridge1892
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Francis Henry May, GCMG30 March 1897
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Francis Joseph Badeley23 April 1902
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Charles Mcllvaine Messer, OBE19 April 1913
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Superintendent of PrisonsJohn William Franks, OBE31 December 1920
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Commissioner of PrisonsMajor James Lugard Willcocks,
DSO, MC17 June 1938 -
William Shillingford22 May 1947
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John Tunstall Burdett28 May 1951
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Cuthbert James Norman, CBE26 February 1953
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Gilbert Roy Pickett, ISO26 February 1968
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Thomas Gerad Garner, CBE, JP27 January 1972
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Commissioner of Correctional ServicesThomas Gerad Garner, CBE, JP1 February 1982
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Chan Wa-shek, ISO, JP1 July 1985
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Frederic Samuel McCosh,
OBE, QPM, CPM, JP26 November 1990 -
Lai Ming-kee,
SBS, MBE, JP20 February 1995 -
Ng Ching-kwok,
SBS, MBE, QPM, CPM, JP1 May 1999 -
Pang Sung-yuen,
SBS, CSDSM, JP1 January 2003 -
Kwok Leung-ming,
SBS, CSDSM23 July 2006 -
Sin Yat-kin,
SBS, CSDSM20 September 2010 -
Yau Chi-chiu,
SBS, CSDSM26 December 2014 -
Lam Kwok-leung,
SBS, CSDSM21 August 2017 -
Woo Ying-ming,
SBS, CSDSM25 November 2018 -
Wong Kwok-hing,
CSDSM24 March 2022