List of colonial governors in 1880

Portugal

 * Angola –
 * Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses, Governor-General of Angola (1878–1880)
 * António Eleutério Dantas, Governor-General of Angola (1880–1882)

United Kingdom

 * Jamaica – Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of Jamaica (1877–1883)
 * Malta Colony – Arthur Borton, Governor of Malta (1878–1884)
 * New South Wales – Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wales (1879–1885)
 * Queensland – Sir Arthur Kennedy, Governor of Queensland (1877–1883)
 * Tasmania – Major Frederick Weld, Governor of Tasmania (1875–1880)
 * South Australia – Lieutenant-General William Jervois, Governor of South Australia (1877–1883)
 * Victoria – George Phipps, Lord Normanby, Governor of Victoria (1879–1884)
 * Western Australia
 * Major-General Harry Ord, Governor of Western Australia (1877–1880)
 * Sir William Robinson, Governor of Western Australia (1880–1883)