JERSEY
ANGLO-NORMAN BAILIWICK OF JERSEY
Jersey, one of the major islands of the Anglo - Norman territory of the Channel Islands became a separate administrative unit (bailiwick) in the course of the 13th century and remained so ever since. (1) From 1940 to 1945 Jersey was occupied and administered by Germany. (1) The bailiwick also comprized the Ecréhous and Minquiers islands, which were however also claimed by France. __________________________________________________________________________________CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Governor 1821 - 1854 Gen. William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford 1768 - 1854 Lieutenant Governors 1847 - 1852 MajGen. Sir James Reynett 1852 - 1857 MajGen. Sir James Frederick Love 1789 - 1866 1857 - 1860 MajGen. Godfrey Charles Mundy 1804 - 1860 1860 - 1863 MajGen. Sir Robert Percy Douglas 1804 - 1891 1863 - 1869 MajGen. Burke Cuppage 1794 - 1877 1869 - 1873 MajGen. Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy 1804 - 1878 1873 - 1878 MajGen. Sir William Sherbrooke Ramsay Norcott 1804 - 1886 1878 - 1883 MajGen. Lothian Nicholson 1827 - 1893 1883 - 1887 Henry Wray 1826 - 1900 1887 - 1892 Charles Brisbane Ewart 1827 - 1903 1892 - 1895 Edwin Markham 1833 - 1918 1895 - 1900 LtGen. Sir Edward Hopton 1837 - 1912 1900 - 1904 MajGen. Henry Richard Abadie 1841 - 1915 1904 - 1910 MajGen. Hugh Sutlej Gough 1848 - 1920 1910 - 1916 Sir Alexander Nelson Rochefort 1850 - 1916 1916 - 1920 MajGen. Sir Alexander Wilson 1858 - 1937 1920 - 1924 Sir William Douglas Smith 1865 - 1939 1924 - 1929 Sir Francis Richard Bingham 1863 - 1935 1929 - 1934 Walter Patrick Hore-Ruthven, Baron Ruthven 1870 - 1956 1934 - 1939 Sir (1937) Horace de Courcy Martelli 1877 - 1959 1939 - 1940 MajGen. James Murray Robert Harrison, left Jersey as Germans prepared to invade 1880 - 1957 1940 - 1945 none (2) (2) Baillif Alexander Moncrieff Coutanche (1892 - 1972) toke over as acting Lieutenant Governor, becoming soon afterwards President of the Superior Council of the States of Jersey, a newly created body established to direct the island's affairs for the duration of the occupation. Baillifs 1831 - 1848 Sir Jean de Veulle 1799 - 1848 1848 - 1857 Sir Thomas Le Breton 1791 - 1857 1858 - 1880 John Hammond 1801 - 1880 1880 - 1884 Sir Robert Pipon Marett 1820 - 1884 1884 - 1899 Sir George Clement Bertram 1841 - 1915 1899 - 1931 Sir William Henry Venables-Vernon 1852 - 1934 1931 - 1935 Charles Edward Malet de Carteret 1869 - 1946 1935 - 1961 Alexander Moncrieff Coutanche s.a. __________________________________________________________________________________GERMAN AND BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS DURING WWII
The first German administrator was the commander of the invasion troops. Later a military adminstration subordinated to the Feld- and Platzkommandanten of the Channel Islands was set up. After the liberation the island was briefly under British military rule. (See also Channel Islands for the military leaders) Commander of the invading forces 1940 Capt. Erich Gussek Commanders of Jersey Kommandanten für Jersey 1940 - 1941 Gottfried von Stein 1941 - 1943 Wilhelm Casper 1943 - 1945 Hans Max Freiherr von Aufsess 1906 - 1993 Head of the British Military Government for Jersey 1945 L. A. Freeman
MINOR ISLANDS : THE ECREHOUS AND THE MINQUIERS
At the beginning of the 19th century both island groups were without much interest, being only occasionally visited by smugglers and fishermen. (3) Things changed when oyster fishery gained in importance : Jersey started setting up an embryonic administration in both groups of islands and France started claiming both the Ecréhous (since 1886) and the Minquiers (since 1851?). (3) From 1848 to 1898 the Ecréhous were inhabited by Philippe Pinel, a fisherman who styled himself "King of the Ecréhous"
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