Benjamin Pine

Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine (1809–1891) was at various times administrator of Natal, the Gold Coast, Antigua, the Leeward Islands and Western Australia.

Born in 1809 in Maidstone Kent, Benjamin Pine was educated in Brighton and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

On 30 July 1868, Pine was appointed by letters patent to the position of Governor of Western Australia.

He never arrived in Western Australia, and six months passed before the colony received news that he would not be coming.

The person who actually administered the colony during the period of Pine's formal tenure (2 November 1868–29 September 1869) was Lieut Col John Bruce.