King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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King of the Cocos Islands was a title given by the press to John Clunies-Ross, a Scottish sea captain, and other members of his family.
He went to live on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1827. Queen Victoria granted the islands in perpetuity to the Clunies-Ross family in 1886. Thus, the title to the islands was claimed by his descendants until 1978 when John Cecil Clunies-Ross was forced to sell the islands to the Commonwealth of Australia for £2.5m ($4.75m). The Commonwealth had already been administering the islands since 1955.
Clunies-Ross currently lives in Perth, Western Australia, but his son John George Clunies-Ross (born 1957) lives on West Island.
List Clunies-Ross family owners of the Cocos Islands
| Order |
King |
Regnal Name |
Born-Died |
From |
Until |
| 1. |
John Clunies-Ross |
Ross I |
1786–1854 |
1827 |
26 May 1854 |
| 2. |
John George Clunies-Ross |
Ross II |
1823–1871 |
26 May 1854 |
8 June 1871 |
| 3. |
George Clunies-Ross |
Ross III |
1842–1910 |
1871 |
7 July 1910 |
| 4. |
Sydney Clunies-Ross |
Ross IV |
1868–1944 |
7 July 1910 |
14 August 1944 |
| 5. |
John Cecil Clunies-Ross |
Ross V |
1928- |
14 August 1944 |
1978 |
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