Thursday, 7 July 2016

Governors Of Malacca from (1795-1957)

British Residents Of Malacca (1795-1818)


Major Archibald Brown (15 Aug.1795- Dec.1795)
Captain Henry Newcome,RN(15 Aug.1795-1795)
Captain Thomas Parr,RN(Dec.1795-1796)
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Tolson(1796-1797)
Lieutenant-Colonel David Campbell(1797-1798)
Colonel Aldwell William Taylor(1798- 12 July 1803)
Major William Farquhar(12 July 1803- )/(30 Oct.1811 -)/( Aug.1812- )/(22 Oct.1812-28 Nov.1813)/(22nd May 1814-)/(3rd June 1816-21st Sept.1818)
John Macalister(Acting)(1814 - )






Resident Councillors Of Malacca (1825-1867)


Walter Sewell Cracroft (Acting)(1st April 1825 -)
John James Erskine (Acting)In 1825
Major Thomas Dolman Lloyd-Davies (Acting)(1825-1826) 
Edward Presgrave (Acting) (1st time)(1826 - )/( 1829-1830)
John Pattulo (Patullo)Deputy Resident (Oct.1825 - )/Actg.Deputy Resident (1826-1827)
Captain William Gordon MackenzieIn 1826
Samuel Garling(1st Aug.1826- 31st July 1841)
Robert IbbetsonIn 1826
Kenneth MurchisonIn 1830'S
William Thomas LewisActing R.C. (6 Dec.1838-1841) /( 1843-1844)/(Nov.1846 - 1848) R.C.(  1854- 1855)
James William Salmond( 31st July 1841-  )/(  -1843)/(1st May 1845- )/(  - Nov.1846)
Charles Hugh Lushington (1845-1846)
Thomas ChurchIn 1840'S
Edmund Augustus Blundell(30th May 1848- 1849)
Captain Ilay Ferrier( 1849-24 July 1854)
Captain Charles William Francis Whish (Acting)In 1854
General Henry Stuart Man(1855-1856) /(  -1857)
William Willans Willans (Acting)( 1856 - )
Colonel Ronald Macpherson ( 1858  - )/(  - 1860)
Major James Jackson (Acting)( 1858-1859)
Captain Frederick Lyon PlayfairActing R.C.(18th March - 13th July 1859) R.C.(5th Aug.1863-    )( -  8 March 1869)
Henry Somerset MackenzieIn 1860'S
Captain James Burn(8th Oct.1860- May 1863)/( Dec.1864-     )/(  1867)


Lieutenant-Governors Of Malacca (1867-1881)

William Wellington Cairns
(2nd Sept.1867 - 1869)
Capt.Edward Wingfield Shaw,RN(8 March 1869 -)/( -1872)/(  - 1874)/(1875 - )/(27th Feb.1876 - )/(  - 11th April 1877)/(  - May 1877)/(  Oct.1877- 1879)
William Edward Maxwell (Acting)In 1870
Charles John Irving Acting (20th Jan.1870 - ) /( 12th April 1877 - )/(  - Oct.1877) RC (    1879 -)/(  - 9 Feb.1881)/(    - 1883)
Capt.Alfred Robert Ord (Acting)(3rd July-12th Sept 1868/19th Dec.1868-3rd Feb.1869/25th May 1872-22nd March 1873/ 29th March 1874-19th April 1874)
Charles Bushe Plunket (Acting)(  1875-1876)
Captain Robert Theodore Farringdon Stammers (Acting)(   1874  -  )/(  1875  -  )
Colonel Charles Edward Squirl (Acting)(  May 1880 -   )


Resident Councillors Of Malacca (1881-1910)


Dudley Francis Amelius HerveyActing( 9th Feb.1881  - Nov.1881) RC( 19 Aug.1882- )/(17 March 1883 -)/( - 18 May 1891)/(  - 10.Oct.1891)/(  - 1895)
Edwin Empson Isemonger (Acting)(26 Apr.1886-1st Nov.1887)/(18th May 1891-5th May 1892)
John Robert Innes (Acting)In 1890'S
Sir Edward Marsh Merewether (Acting)(21st Sept.20th Nov.1893)/ (1897/1898/(12 Sept.1900- )/(1901 - )
Edward Charles Hepworth Hill (Acting)(17 Apr.1895-6 Feb.1896)
Charles Walter Sneyd-KynnersleyActing(7th Dec.1893- 1st Jan.1895)/(31st Dec.1898-10th March 1899) RC(1st Jan.1895-16 April 1895)/(6 Feb.1896-4th Feb.1897)
Sir Walter Egerton (Acting)(30th March 1898-25 Nov.1898/8th March-1899-11 April 1900)
James Kortright BirchActing ( -  )/ RC(   - 4th June 1905)
Frederick Gordon Penney 1904-1905
Robert Norman BlandActing(22th April 1900-10 Sept.1900/26 Nov.1901-13 June 1903/15 Oct.1903-1st Jan 1905) RC(1st Jan.1905-13 March 1906)
William EvansActing (15 March 1906-17th Feb.1907) RC(17 Feb.4 Sept.1907/25 Feb.1908-14 Mar.1908/8 May-29 May 1908/3rd July 1908-15Feb.1909/29 May 1909-8 Feb.1910/(  - 24 April 1910)
Harold William Firmstone (Acting)(4 Sept.1907-6 Sept.1907/14 Mar-8 May 1908/29 May 1908-3rd July 1908)




Residents Of Malacca (1910-1922)


Littleton Edward Pipe Wolferstan(25 July 1910-24th May 1911/22 Jan.1912-15th June 1914/1st Jan - 5 March 1919/21st.June 1919-15th March 1920)/ RC(5th Jan.1921 -        1922 )
Hayes Marriott (Acting)(24th May 1911-22 Jan.1912)
Walter Cecil Michell (Acting)(11th June 1914-24th Dec.1915)
Bernard Nunn (Acting)(26 July 27 Aug.1918/5th March 21st June 1919)


Resident Councillors Of Malacca (1922-1941)




William Langham-CarterActing (15 Mar.1922-26 May 1922)  (26 May 1922- 21st Dec.1923)/(  - 25th Jan.1925)/(    - 30th March 1925)/(    - 9 April 1925)
John Vivian Gottlieb Mills (Acting)(   December 1923 -   )
Ralph Scott Acting Resident (15 March 1920-5th Jan.1921) / Acting RC(14 Feb - 23rd May 1909/9 Feb - 23 March 1910/25 April - 25 July 1910) / RC(11 April 1925-9 May 1926)
Norman Mudie (Acting)(9th May - June 1926)
Captain Meadows Frost(9th June 1926-25 March 1927)
Reginald Crichton (Acting)( March - Nov. 1927)
Charles Joseph Francis Green  (Acting)(3rd April - 15th Nov.1928)
Bertram Walter Elles (16 Nov.1928-25th May 1929)/(   - 21st March 1930)/(     - 6th April 1930)
Bryan Stagg Walton (Acting)(21st March 1930-   )
Cecil Harry George ClarkeActing (6 April - 10 April 1930) / RC (10 Jan.1932 - 30 March 1933)
Norman Kerr Bain (Acting)(    - 19 Aug.1933)
William Milnes MillingtonActing (2nd May 1931-9th Jan.1932) / RC (24 Aug.1933 - Oct. 1934)
James Startin Wills Arthur (Acting)(25 Jan. 1925 -   )/(20th Feb - 21st Nov.1934)
George William Bryant ( Oct.1934-  1936)/(Oct.1937- Oct.1939) /(    - May 1940)/(  Jan. 1941 - 12 Jan. 1942)
George Rognvald Sykes (Acting)(6 Nov. 1936-22nd May 1937)
William Sydenham Ebden(20th Oct.1939 -  )/(   - 27th July 1940) /(  - 6th Dec.1940)
Arthur Vincent Aston (Acting) ( 12th Jan 1942 - Jan. 1942)


Japanese Governors Of Malacca (1942-1945)






Yoshihiko Osone 大曽根義彦(15 Jan.1942- 18th Feb. 1942)
Kurita Choichiro    栗田朝一郎(18th Feb 1942-7th March 1942)
Ken Tsurumi     鶴見憲(  7th March 1942 - 5th June 1944)
Hideo Hosoi    細井英夫(5th June 1944 - 12th Feb.1945  )
Kinukawa Takeo   衣川毅夫(12th Feb.1945 - Sept.1945)






British Military Governors In Malacca (1945-1946)


Major George Ross Ormiston,Military Commander (15 Sept. 1945-   1945)
Colonel James Calder,Senior Civil Affairs Officer ( Sept. 1945 - 31st March 1946)
Harold Arthur Lee Luckham,S.C.A.O.( 1945-1946)


Resident Commissioners Of Malacca (1946-1957)


Edward Victor Grace DayActing RC (21st Dec.1935- )/(22nd May - 10 Oct.1937) / RC (1946-Nov.1947)
John Falconer(24th Nov.1947-7th March 1949)/(1st Feb. 1948-    )
William Cecil TaylorRC (27th July 1940 -   )/(   Dec.1940   -) RC (   - 1949)
George Evan Cameron Wisdom Acting RC( Aug.1947  -) / RC  (25 Oct.1949 -   )/( 20 Dec.1950  -  )/( 9th Jan.1951 -    )/( 21st Oct.1952   - )
Jonathan Edgar Meredith Cave (Acting)(20 Dec. 1950-9th Jan.1951/20th Dec.1951-6th Jan.1952)
Harold George Hammett Acting (18 April 1952 - 21st Oct. 1952)/ RC ( 21st April 1954- 28th Aug.1954/ 15 Sept.1954- 6 Dec.1954/ 8th Dec.1954 - )/(  - 17 July 1957)/(   - 31st Aug.1957)
Herbert David Eastwood (Acting)In 1950'S
Wing Commander Fulwar Rupert Craven Fowle (Acting)(28th Aug - 15 Sept. 1954) /( 7 Dec. 1954)
Maurice John Hayward (Acting)(25th Sept.1956- Feb. 1957)
Albert William Nicholson (Acting)In 1957


Governors Of Penang from (1786-1957)

Superintendents Of Penang (1786-1794)Position & Dates
Capt. Francis Light Superintendent (11 Aug.1786-21st Nov.1789)/(9 Feb.1790-21st Oct.1794)
Capt.John GlassActg.Superintendent( 21st Nov.1789-9 Feb.1790 )
Philip ManingtonSuperintendent (1794-1795)
Thomas PigouActg.Superintendent(1795-1796)
John BeanlandActg.Superintendent(1796)
Major Forbes Ross MacdonaldSuperintendent(1796-1797/1798-1799)
George CaunterActg. Superintendent 8th Sept.1797-1798)/(1799-19th April 1800)


Lieutenant-Governors Of Penang (1800-1805)


Sir George Alexander William LeithLieutenant-Governor 19th April 1800-2nd Dec.1802)/(12th May 1803-1st January 1804)
Sir Robert Townsend FarquharLieutenant-Governor 1st Jan.1804-1805


Governors Of Penang (1805-1826)
Philip DundasGovernor 1805-1807
Henry Shepherd PearsonActg.Governor (13 April 1807-16 Oct.1807)
Col.Norman MacalisterGovernor(16 Oct. 1807-1810)
Charles Andrew BruceGovernor(    -27 Dec.1810)
Archibald SetonGovernor 9 May 1811-1812
William PetrieGovernor Dec.1812-27 Oct.1816
Col. John Alexander BannermanGovernor 24 Nov.1817-8 Aug.1819
William Edward PhillipsActg.Lieutenant-Governor(2nd Dec.1802-12th May 1803)/Actg.Governor(   -9th May 1811)/Governor(4 June 1820-30 Aug.1824)


 Resident Councillors/Deputy Residents (1826-1867)




Robert FullertonGovernor(1824-1st Aug.1826)
Robert IbbetsonResident Councillor (1st Aug.1826-Sept.1826/( - 1827)/(Deputy Resident( 30 June- 11 Nov.1830   )
Kenneth MurchisonDeputy Resident (11 Nov.1830-10 Apr.1832) / Resident Councillor(10 Apr.1832-Nov.1833)/ Actg.R.C.(Sept.1826 - )
John PattulloDeputy Resident in 1828
John AndersonActg.Resident Councillor( 5 Nov. 1828 - 13 April 1829)
Thomas ChurchResident Councillor in 1834
Capt.James Low Actg.Resident Councillor (Dec.1838-1839)
Henry Somerset MackenzieAsst.Resident Councillor in 1840'S
James William Salmond Resident Councillor Of Penang (Nov.1833-Dec.1838/1839-Jul.1841)
Samuel GarlingResident Councillor (Jul.1841- 21st Sept.1849)
Edmund Augustus BlundellResident Councillor of Penang from(21 Sept.1849-     /   1853)(         -15 Apr. 1855)
William Thomas LewisActg.R.C.(   1853    )/(R.C.( 15 Apr.1855 -Apr.1860)
Capt.Ronald MacphersonActg.R.C.(  -1858)/(   - 1860)
Major-General Henry Stuart ManR.C.(1858-1867)
George Samuel Windsor EarlAsst.Resident Councillor from(1859-1860)
Major-General Montague ProtheroeActing R.C.(9th June 1863-1863)


Lieutenant-Governors (1867-1884)


Maj-Gen. Edward Archibald Harbord AnsonActg.Lieutenant-Governor(   1867)/Lieutenant-Governor(8 June 1867-19th Feb.1871)/(   1873  - 1877)/(     1877)/(   1877- 1879)/(   - 2nd Feb.1881)
Capt.David Thompson HatchellActing Lieutenant-Governor of Penang(19 Feb. - 4th March 1871)
Arthur Nonus BirchActg.Lieutenant-Governor( 4th March 1871- 1st April 1872)
Sir George William Robert CampbellActg.Lieutenant-Governor(1st April 1872- 1873)
Captain Edward Wingfield ShawActing Lieutenant-Governor of Penang from (May-October 1877)
Captain ConnorActg.Lieutenant-Governor in 1879
Major Charles James HamiltonActg.Lieutenant-Governor in 1881
Major John Frederick Aldophus McNairActg.Lieutenant-Governor( Feb.1881-  )/Actg.R.C.(     1883)/(        9th Aug.1884)


Resident Councillors Of Penang (1884-1941)


Charles John IrvingActg.Lieutenant-Governor( Feb. 1879-1880)/R.C.(1885- 13 May 1887)
Major Samuel DunlopActg.R.C.1884-1885
Sir William Edward MaxwellActg.Resident Councillor of Penang (13th May 1887-  April 1889)
Allan Maclean SkinnerR.C. 10 March 1890-9th Sept.1890)/ (22 May-24 Oct.1891) /( March-30 Sept. 1892)/(1st Nov.1892-    )/(   -30th Nov.1894)/(      March 1897)
Henry TrotterActg.R.C. (24 Oct.1891-  March 1892)/(30th Nov.1894-7 Dec.1895)
Alfred Houston CapperActg.R.C. (28 Jan. 1894  -    )
Francis James AndersonActg.R.C.in 1897
Charles Walter Sneyd-KynnersleyActg.R.C.(  March 1884- )/(25 Apr.1889-9 March 1890)/(4 Feb.- 11th July 1897)/R.C.(3rd April 1900-22 Oct.1900)/(24 Feb.1901  - 1901)/(   -1903)
James Kortright BirchActg.R.C.(3rd March 1897-3rd April 1900)/( April 1901- Nov.1902)/(  1903  - 1905)/R.C.(  - 1st June 1905)/(      1906)
Sir Walter EgertonActg.R.C.(28 Feb.- 6 April 1901)
Leonard Powney EbdenActing Resident Councillor (1st June 1905- )
Edward Charles Clifford HowardActg.R.C.(20 Nov.1906 -   )
Robert Norman BlandActg.R.C.(22 Nov.1906-17 Feb.1907)/ R.C.(17 Feb.1907-22 Feb.1908)/(7th May 1908-  29 April 1910)
James Oliver AnthoniszActing Resident Councillor (29 April 1910- 17 Jan.1911)
William EvansActg.R.C.(22nd Feb.1908-7 May 1908)/R.C.(21 Jan.1911-11 May 1912)/(29 Jan.1913-13 Feb.1914)
Alfred Thomas BryantR.C.(11 Feb.1914-  ) / 24 Feb.1917)
Walter Cecil MichellActg.R.C.(18 May 1912-29 Jan.1913) R.C.(9 Oct.1917-20 Oct.1919)
Gilbert Amos HallActg.R.C.(24 July - 20 Oct.1919)/R.C.(20 Oct.1919-27 Feb.1920)/(31st Jan.1921-9th Sept.1922)
Harold William FirmstoneActg.R.C.(28 Feb.1920 -  )
Arthur Blennerhassett VoulesActg.R.C.(17 Nov.1922-9 Dec.1922) / R.C.(9 Dec.1922-    )/(             9th May 1925)
 Roger David ActonActg.R.C.((31st Aug.1923 -  )
Stewart CodringtonActg. R.C. (11 May - 8 Oct.1924)
Sir William PeelActg.R.C.(26 Feb.1917-5 Oct.1917)/(10 May 1925-9 July 1925)/R.C.(9 July 1925- 9 May 1926)
George Arthur HerefordActg.R.C.((30th March-1st April 1926)
Ralph ScottActg.R.C.(10 Sept.-9 Dec.1922)/(May -9 June 1926)/R.C.(9 June 1926-     1928)
Captain Meadows FrostActg.R.C.(21st April -8 July 1928)/R.C.(8 July 1928-9 Jan.1930)
Norman Mudie Actg.R.C.(  May 1929  -      )
Edward Wilmot Francis GilmanActg.R.C.(9 Jan-17 April 1930)/R.C.(17 Apr.1930-2nd May 1931)
Percy Tothill AllenActg.R.C.(2nd May 1931 - 16 Aug.1931)/R.C.(16 Aug.1931-  1932)/(  1932-  April 1933)
George William BryantActg.R.C.( 4 July 1932-20 July 1932)
Arthur Mitchell GoodmanActg.R.C.(21st April-14 Oct.1933)/R.C.(14 Oct.1933-24 Nov.1934)/(29 Aug.1935-8 Dec.1937)/(6 July 1938-2nd Aug.1941)
James Startin Wills ArthurActg.Resident Councillor(25 Nov.1934-29th Aug.1935)
Richard John Froude CurtisActg.R.C.(24 July-10 Aug.1936)
George Alexander de Chazal de MoubrayActg.R.C.(8 Dec.1937-6 July 1938)
Eric Tregear WilliamsActing Resident Councillor In 1941
Leslie ForbesActing Resident Councillor(5th Aug.1941-16 Dec.1941)






















Japanese Civil Military Administrator Of Penang (1941-1942)


Col. Toshiro Hiroyasu 广安寿郎(20 Nov.1941 - 4th Jan. 1942)
Captain Nobuyoshi Masaki 正木宣儀(4th January -7th March 1942)




Japanese Governors Of Penang from (1941-1945)


Lt-Gen.Shotaro Katayama 片山省太郎7th March 1942-20th April 1943
Maj-Gen.Masakichi Itami 伊丹政吉20th April 1943-1st July 1944
S.IkagawaDeputy Governor in 1944
Lt-Gen.Shinohara Seiichiro 篠原誠一郎1st July 1944- Sept.1945


Military Governors Of Penang (1945-1946)


Col.Peter Donald MacfeatSenoirs Civil Affairs Officer of Penang (1st Sept. 1945  -  8th March 1946)
Capt.Thomas John Norman HilkenSenoir Civil Affairs Officer( 3rd Sept.-24 Sept.1945) / Actg.Military Governor(           )


Col.John Allen Harvey
Peter Dicken CracroftMilitary Governor (24 Sept -  1 Nov.1945)
Major General Lancelot Edgar Connop Mervyn PerowneSub-Area Commander (1 Nov.1945-  )
Perowne








Resident Commissioners Of Penang (1946-1957)






Norman GriceSenoir Civil Affairs Officer(8 March 1946-1st April 1946)/ R.C.(1st April.1946-12 May 1946)
Sydney Noel King(12th May 1946-29th Feb.1948)
George Evan Cameron WisdomActg.R.C. (29 Feb.-3rd May 1948)/(    -1948)/(  - Nov.1947)
Arthur Vincent AstonActg.R.C.(1st -20th April 1933)/R.C.(3rd May 1948-25 March 1950)/(   1950-3rd Nov.1951)
Robert Porter BinghamActg.R.C.(25th March -  1950)/R.C.(3rd Nov.1951-19th April 1952)/(26th Oct.1952-25th June 1954)/(17th July 1954-23rd Dec.1954)/( - 22nd Jan.1955)/(3rd Aug.1955-31st August 1957)
Norman WardActg. R.C. (19th April-25th Oct. 1952)
John Sjovald Hoseason Cunyngham-BrownActg.R.C. (25 June - 17 July 1954)
Herbert Raymond EllisActg.R.C. (23rd Dec.-30th Dec.1954)
David GrayActg. R.C. (30th Nov.1954-   )/(22nd Jan.-3th Aug.1955)