A deputy governor is a gubernatorial official who is subordinated to a governor, rather like a lieutenant governor.
In the British Empire, there were such colonial offices in :
This variation was used once, in British Kaffraria (a separate crown colony since 1860, first under a lieutenant governor; native inhabitants Xhosa), for its last own gubernatorial official before its final (re)incorporation into the Cape Colony: 24 December 1864 - 17 April 1866 Robert Graham