The Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands was the local representative of the British government in the

United States of the Ionian Islands The United States of the Ionian Islands ( el, Ἡνωμένον Κράτος τῶν Ἰονίων Νήσων, Inoménon-Krátos ton Ioníon Níson, United State of the Ionian Islands; it, Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie) was a Greek state and a ...

between 1816 and 1864, succeeding the earlier office of the Civil Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. At the time, the United States of the Ionian Islands was a

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under the amical protection of the

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, as established under the 1815 Treaty of Paris. Governors were based in

Corfu Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra ( el, Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, , ; ; la, Corcyra.) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The isl ...

, northernmost of the seven Ionian Islands, which are off the western coast of mainland

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List

Civil Commissioners (1809–1816)

Lord High Commissioners (1816–1864)

Notes

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External links

World Statesmen – Greece (Ionian Islands)
Ionian Islands, Lord High Commissioner Lord High Commissioner Ionian