Governor of North Borneo
Governor of North Borneo | |
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Style | His Excellency |
Residence | Sandakan (before 1946), Kota Kinabalu (1946–1963) |
Inaugural holder | William Hood Treacher |
Formation | 1881 |
Final holder | William Allmond Codrington Goode |
Abolished | 1963 |
The Governor of North Borneo was the appointed head of the government of North Borneo.
Originally the Governor was appointed by the North Borneo Chartered Company, which was responsible for the administration of the protectorate. Upon North Borneo becoming a Crown colony in 1946, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the Governor of British North Borneo became an appointee of the Crown (i.e. of the Government of the United Kingdom).
List of governors appointed by the Company
British North Borneo | |||||
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№ | Portrait | Name | Tenure | Monarch | |
From | To | ||||
1 | William Hood Treacher | 1881 | 1887 | Victoria House of Hanover (20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901) | |
2 | William Maunder Crocker | 1887 | 1888 | ||
3 | Charles Vandeleur Creagh | 1888 | 1895 | ||
4 | Leicester Paul Beaufort | 1895 | 1899 | ||
5 | Hugh Charles Clifford | 1900 | 1901 | ||
6 | Ernest Woodford Birch | 1901 | 1903 | Edward VII House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (22 January 1901 – 6 May 1910) | |
7 | Edward Peregrine Gueritz [de] | 1904 | 1911 | ||
George V House of Windsor (6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936) | |||||
8 | Francis Robert Ellis | 1911 | 1912 | ||
9 | Sir James Scott Mason | 1912 | 1912 | ||
10 | Cecil William Chase Parr | 1913 | 1915 | ||
11 | Aylmer Cavendish Pearson [de] 1st term | 1915 | 1922 | ||
12 | William Henry Rycroft | 1922 | 1925 | ||
13 | Aylmer Cavendish Pearson [de] 2nd term | 1925 | 1926 | ||
14 | John Lisseter Humphreys | 1926 | 1929 | ||
15 | Arthur Frederick Richards | 1930 | 1933 | ||
Douglas James Jardine | 1934 | 1937 | |||
16 | |||||
Edward VIII House of Windsor (20 January 1936 – 11 December 1936) | |||||
George VI House of Windsor (11 December 1936 – 1 April 1942) | |||||
17 | Charles Robert Smith | 1937 | 1942 | ||
Japanese Occupation of British Borneo From 1 April 1942 to 10 June 1945. | |||||
British Military Administration of Borneo (1945-1946) | George VI House of Windsor (10 June 1945 – 6 February 1952) | ||||
18 | Charles Robert Smith | 1945 | 1946 | ||
Crown Colony of North Borneo | |||||
19 | Edward Francis Twining | 1946 | 5 May 1948 | ||
20 | James Calder Officer Administering the Colony | 5 May 1948 | 10 January 1949 | ||
21 | Herbert Ralph Hone | 10 January 1949 | 1954 | ||
Elizabeth II House of Windsor (6 February 1952 – 16 September 1963) | |||||
22 | Roland Evelyn Turnbull | 1954 | 1959 | ||
23 | William Allmond Codrington Goode | 1960 | 1963 |
Sources
- List of North Borneo Governors on World Statesmen
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