University of Botswana History Department
Colonial Administration Pages
Bechuanaland Colonial Administrators
c.1884-c.1965
by Place, Date, Name, and Title
by Neil Parsons & Glorious Gumbo
provisional version 16 November 2002
This listing is incomplete. Please send additions, amendments and corrections to
nparsons@mopipi.ub.bw
See latest version on University of Botswana History Department website:
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A. Resident Magistrates, District Officers, & Divisional Commissioners
(by District/ Division)
B. Resident Commissioner’s Office (Protectorate Central Administration)
C. Bechuanaland Police Officers & Men
D. High Commissioner’s Office (Cape Town & Johannesburg/ Pretoria)
E. Colonial and Dominions/ Commonwealth Relations Office (London)
A. Resident Magistrates, District Officers, & Divisional Commissioners (by District/
Division)
1. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS/DIVISIONAL COMMISSIONERS
1a: Northern Protectorate
1b: Southern Protectorate
2. BOKALAKA (SEBINA) SUB-DISTRICT
3. FRANCISTOWN (TATI) DISTRICT
3. GABERONES DISTRICT
4. GHANZI DISTRICT
5. KANYE DISTRICT
6. KASANE (CHOBE) DISTRICT
7. LOBATSE DISTRICT
8. MACHANENG (TULI BLOCK) SUB-DISTRICT
9. MAHALAPYE SUB-DISTRICT
10. MOCHUDI DISTRICT
11. MOLEPOLOLE DISTRICT
12. NGAMILAND DISTRICT
13. SEROWE DISTRICT
14. TSABONG DISTRICT
15. OTHER RELEVANT MAGISTRATES
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B. Resident Commissioner'sOffice (Protectorate Central Administration)
16. B.P. RESIDENT COMMISSIONERS (Vryburg, Mafeking & Gaborone)
17. B.P. GOVERNMENT SECRETARIES (& DEPUTY RESIDENT
COMMISSIONERS)
18. OTHER OFFICERS IN GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT (Vryburg,
Mafeking & Gaborone)
19. B. P. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (excluding Police)
19a Agriculture
19b Audit
19c Education
19d Finance
19e Geological Survey
19f Justice
19g Land Survey
19h Medical
19i Posts & Telegraphs
19j Public Works
19k Stores
19l Treasury
19m Veterinary
19n Other
C. Bechuanaland Police Officers & Men
20. BECHUANALAND FIELD FORCE
21. BECHUANALAND BORDER POLICE
22. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE DIVISION I (including
Bechuanaland Native Police)
23. BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE POLICE
D. High Commissioner's Office (Cape Town, Pretoria &c.)
24. HIGH COMMISSIONERS &c.
25. IMPERIAL/ CHIEF SECRETARIES & DEPUTY HIGH
COMMISSIONERS
26. HCO (BBS) JUDICIAL OFFICERS
27. OTHER HCO OFFICE STAFF
E. Colonial and Dominion Affairs/ Commonwealth Relations Offices (London)
28. SECRETARIES OF STATE
29. PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE/ MINISTERS
OF STATE
30. PERMANENT UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE
31. DEPUTY UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE
32. ASSISTANT (PERMANENT) UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE
33. CO/DO/CRO JUDICIAL OFFICERS
34. OTHER CO/DO/CRO OFFICE STAFF
Sources:
Appendix:
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A. Resident Magistrates, District Officers, &
Divisional Commissioners (by District/ Division)
Note: The title DISTRICT COMMISSIONER (to replace Resident Magistrate) is said
to have been official from 1936, but was in practice used from 1930. There is also
some confusion over the use of the terms District Commissioner (DC) and District
Officer (DO). Technically the DC was simply the most senior DO responsible to the
Resident Commissioner for the District, but in practice the term DO was (and is
today) usually confined to the DC's assistant officers.
1. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS/DIVISIONAL
COMMISSIONERS
Note: Assistant Commissioners to 1923 were in practice Assistant Resident
Commissioners. From 1891-1923 the AC (Southern Protectorate) was based at Fort
Gaberones; from 1891-1903/4 the AC (Northern Protectorate) at Old Palapye and
1903/4-23 at Francistown. The division between South and North was revived in
1950, with Senior District Officers in charge of each at Lobatse (South) and
Francistown (North), becoming Divisional Commissioners from 1954 until 1963
when the posts were abolished as redundant. The two Divisions were equivalent to
Provinces in other colonies, and Divisional Commissioners were equivalent to
Provincial Commissioners.
Dates
Name
Details
1884-1885
J.M. Wright
1887-1892
Assistant (Resident) Commissioner
for the Bechuanaland Protectorate
Rev. John Smith Moffat (1835- (including Matabeleland to 1890)
1918)
north of the Molopo, based at
Mafeking till c.1890 then roving
commission
1890-1892
Assistant Commissioner for BP,
based at Mafeking/ Fort Gaborone
(founded August 1890). Seconded
from Basutoland June 1890,
confirmed as “Assistant
Commissioner & Magistrate for
Bechuanaland” (Protectorate) by 27
June 1891 Proclamation
W.H. Surmon
Assistant Commissioner, Mafeking
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1a: Northern Protectorate
Dates
Name
Details
1892-1895
Rev. John Smith Moffat
Assistant Commissioner for
Northern Protectorate & Resident
Magistrate Palapye
1895-1901
John Anchitel Ashburnham
AC for Northern Protectorate & RM
Palapye
1902-1903
Francis William Panzera (1851- AC for Northern Protectorate, & RM
1917)
Palapye
1903-1906
Francis William Panzera
(again)
AC for Northern Protectorate & RM
Francistown
1907-1923
Rowland Mortimer Daniel
(1873-1957)
AC post lapsed 1923
1950
William Forbes Mackenzie
(1907-1980)
Senior District Officer, Serowe
1952-1954
John Forster Millard (1911-)
Senior District Officer, Francistown,
ex-Basutoland, Colonial Office
(recruitment), Tanganyika
1954-1958
John Forster Millard (again)
Divisional Commissioner North,
Francistown
1958-1963
Norman B. Rutherford
ditto
1b: Southern Protectorate
Dates
Name
Details
1892-1900?
W.H. Surmon
AC & RM for Southern Protectorate,
Gaberones
1900?-1923
Jules E. Ellenberger (18711973)
post lapsed 1923
195?-1954
Jean Daniel Arnauld Germond
(1904-?6X?)
Senior District Officer, Gaberones
1954-1961
Jean Daniel Arnauld Germond
(again)
Divisional Commissioner South,
Lobatse
2. BOKALAKA (SEBINA) SUB-DISTRICT
Dates
195?
Name
David M. Robinson
Details
Assistant District Officer (appt.
28/5/54)
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3. FRANCISTOWN (TATI) DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1891
Hamilton John Goold-Adams
Magistrate for Bechuanaland
(Protectorate) and Tati District,
based at Fort Gaborone's, by 27 June
1891 Proclamation
1903-1906
Francis William Panzera
AC for Northern Protectorate & RM
Francistown
1907-1926/7?
Rowland Mortimer Daniel
(1873-1957)
AC post lapsed 1923; RM
Francistown
1909
D. Green
Special Justice of the Peace
1923
William E. Mangan
Acting Assistant Resident Magistrate
1928-1929
G.B. Moseley
Acting ARM
1930-1932
G.E. Nettelton
District Commissioner
1933
W.E. Mangan (again)
Acting DC
1934
Allan L. Cuzen
DC
1935-1942
William E. Mangan (again)
Acting DC then DC from 1936
(appt. 9/3/36)
1937
Percival Cardross Grant
on probation (appt. 24/4/37)
1943-1944
John Wilfred Potts, ISO
DC
1945
Alistair J.T.M. Macrae
Asst. DC (appt. 17/6/38)
1946-1947
John W. Joyce
DC (appt. 30/10/42)
1948-1950
Rowland A.R. Bent
Asst. DC (appt. 9/11/37 & 19/11/49)
1951
Thomas G. Moore
Asst. DC (appt. 3/11/46)
(1952-1954
John Forster Millard (1911-)
Senior District Officer, Francistown
(appt. 29/3/52)
1953-1956
George J.L. Atkinson
(appt. 4/12/50)
(1954-1958
John Forster Millard (again)
Divisional Commissioner North,
Francistown)
1957-1959
Arthur N.W. Matthews
(appt. 4/3/48 & 6/11/58)
1958
Hugh Henry B. Murray-Hudson (appt. 6/8/55)
1959
Charles Eustice Clark
(appt. 16/8/51)
1960-1963
Roy S. King
DO (appt. 21/7/58)
1960-1964
Norman B. Rutherford
(16/1/59) Senior DO from 1963
1960
Thomas G. Moore
(appt. 3/2/54)
5
1963-1964
Philippus L. Steenkamp
DC (appt. 17/7/58)
1964
Phineas P.M. Makepe
on probation (appt. 9/3/64)
1964
Alexander C. Campbell
on probation (appt. 13/7/63)
1963 -5
Robert Gilkes
District Officer
3. GABERONES DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1892-1900?
W.H. Surmon
AC & RM for Southern Protectorate
1897-1900
Jules E. Ellenberger (18711973/4)
Magistrate’s Clerk & Acting AC
1900
1900?1922/3?
Jules E. Ellenberger (again)
AC & RM
1900
Nelson W. Fogerty
Magistrate’s Clerk
1912
Edward H.M. Drury
Assistant Resident Magistrate
1913-1919
M. Williams
ARM (& Acting AC 1916-1919?)
1920-1928
Ernest O. Butler
Resident Magistrate
1923
John W. Potts
ARM
1929
H.B. Neale
RM
1930-1932
C.M. Ledeboer
District Commissioner
1933-1936
Vivian F. Ellenberger
Acting DC then DC 1934 (appt.
1/4/34)
1937
Edwin P. Arrowsmith
on probation (appt. 10/11/32)
1938
A.J.T. Mackenzie Macrae
Asst. DC (appt. 17/1/38)
1939-1940
William Forbes Mackenzie
Asst. DC (appt. 31/10/37)
1941-1942
Vivien F. Ellenberger
DC (appt. 1/4/34)
1941
Philip Gordon Batho
Asst. DC (appt. 1/7/37)
1943
John Walter Joyce
DC
1944-1948
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson
DC (appt. 7/8/42)
195?-1954
Jean Daniel Arnaud Germond
(1904-?6X?)
Senior District Officer
1949
Harry Cecil Foulger
on contract
1951
James Anthony Allison
(appt. 14/8/50)
1952-1954
Arthur Norman W. Matthews
DC (appt. 4/3/48)
1955-1956
Gerald C. Ryan
DC (appt. 28/5/54)
1957-1961
Dennis A. T. Atkins
DC (appt. 17/7/52)
6
1962-1964(1970?)
Percivale Cardross Grant
DC (appt. 5/12/49)
4. GHANZI DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1923
Allan L. Cuzen
?
1927
W.E. Mangan
Acting Resident Magistrate
1934
W. Potts
(Assistant?) District Commissioner
1937-1939
William H.J. Cairns BA
on probation (appt. 20/4/36)
1939-1940
Alistair John Tindall M.
Macrae
Asst. DC (appt. 17/6/38)
1941
John Walter Joyce
Asst. DC (appt. 1/4/34)
1942-1944
William Robert Murray
Acting Asst. DC (appt. 1/4/40)
1945
Sydney H. Moorse
Asst. DC (appt. 1/12/36)
1947-1949
Frederick A. Marr
Asst. DC (appt. 12/12/45)
1950
Sydney V. Lawrenson
also DC Maun (appt. 7/8/42)
1951-1956
Ernest H. Midgely
Asst. DC (appt. 17/6/44)
1958
George J.L. Atkinson
(appt. 4/12/50)
1959-1961
Phillipus L. Steenkamp
(appt. 17/7/58)
1960-1961
George B. Silberbauer
on special duty (appt. 28/5/56) 1962
1964
Alexander C. Campbell
on probation (appt. 28/5/62)
1963-1964
George B. Silberbauer (again)
DC? (appt. 28/5/56)
5. KANYE DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1915-1916
E.H.M. Drury
Acting Resident Magistrate
1923
Capt. G.B. Moseley
?
1923
Sub-Insp. G.E. Nettelton
Acting RM
?
Stanley Langton
Clerk
1930-1935
Allan L. Cuzen
District Commissioner
(appt.24/10/21)
1933
E.H. Midgeley
on probation?
1934
Alexander Rutherford
Acting Assistant DC (appt. 1/4/34,
retired 17/8/35)
7
1934
H. Beeching
Acting Assistant DC
1936
William Hunter Jackson Cairns,
Asst. DC on probation (appt. 1/1/36)
BA
1937-1941
John Wilfred Potts, ISO
DC? (appt. 3/4/21)
1942
W.H.J. Cairns (again)
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/38)
1944-1945
Edward H. Ashton, BA PhD
Asst. DC (appt. 20/4/36)
1947-1948
Philip Gordon Batho
Asst. DC (appt. 1/7/37)
1948-1951
Arthur N.W. Matthews
(appt. 4/3/48)
1952
(Major) J.C.E. Bowen
Asst. DC 4 year contract (appt.
7/4/50)
1954
Norman B. Rutherford
(appt. 1/9/51)
1955-1959
Thomas George Moore
(appt. 3/2/54) leave 1957, 1959
1960-1961
Percivale Cardross Grant
(appt. 5/12/49)
1962-1963
Denis Arthur T. Atkins
(appt. 29/7/52)
1964
Charles Eustice Clark
(appt. 16/8/51)
6. KASANE (CHOBE) DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1923
Capt. H.B. Neale
Assistant Resident Magistrate,
1931-1933
H. Beeching
Acting Assistant District
Commissioner
1935-1936
Richard B.M. Sullivan
Asst. DC (appt. 7/2/35)
1948
Noel V. Redman
Asst. DC (appt. 9/2/46)
1949
Thomas G. Moore
Asst. DC (appt. 3/11/46)
1950-1951
Frederick Alexander Marr
Asst. DC temporary (appt. 12/12/45)
1952-1954
Claude C. McLaren
(appt. 22/7/48)
1958
Brian A.F. Read
on probation (appt. 18/4/57)
1962
Brian B. Egner
on probation (appt. 15/7/58) on leave
in Canada 1963
1963
David W. Finlay
on probation (appt. 26/7/62)
7. LOBATSE DISTRICT
Dates
1904
Name
Arnold Weinholt Hodson
Details
?
8
1907
H.V. Jason
Special Justice of the Peace
1909
R. O’Malley Reilly
SJP
1910
J.B. Mosely
SJP
1912-1913
R. O’Malley Reilly (again)
Acting Resident Magistrate
1914
(Sgt.) Hawtrey
Acting RM (B.P. Police)
1915-1917
Claud Ledeboer
Acting Assistant RM then Asst. RM
1916
1923-1930
R. O’Malley Reilly (again)
ARM then District Commissioner
1930
1931-1935
Claud Ledeboer (again)
DC (re-appt. 1/4/34)
1936-1942
Allan Leckie Cuzen
DC (appt. 24/10/21)
1943-1946
V.F. Ellenberger
DC (appt. 1/4/34)
1947-1948
William Forbes Mackenzie
DC (appt. 1/4/35 & 1/9/41)
1949
Richard B.M. Sullivan
DC (appt. 1/10/45)
1950
Vivian Gillett
Asst. DC temporary
1952-1953
Sydney Lawrenson
DC (appt. 1/10/51)
1954/56-1961
Jean Daniel Arnauld Germond
(1904-)
Senior DC then 1954 Divisional
Commissioner South, Lobatse
1955-1957
Claude C. McLaren
(appt. 22/7/48)
1959-1961
Arthur N.W. Matthews
(appt. 6/11/58)
1960
George Winstanley
(appt. 11/8/54)
1961
Patrick R. Starkey
on probation
1962-1963
Patrick B. Watermeyer
on contract (6/4/61)
1963
Melvin George Billing
(appt. 7/11/61)
1964
Roy Stevens King
DC (appt. 21/7/58)
?
Egner
8. MACHANENG (TULI BLOCK) SUB-DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1923
(Capt.) P.T.O. Garbutt
?
-1947
Norman Bruce Rutherford
(1909-197?)
Assistant District Officer (appt.
1/9/41)
1950
R.B.M. Sullivan
also as DC Serowe (appt. 1/10/45)
1951
George J.L. Atkinson
(appt. 4/12/50)
1952-1953
Thomas G. Moore
Asst. DC (appt. 3/11/53)
9
1958-1961
Ernest H. Midgely
(appt. 17/6/53)
1962-1964
Brian A.F. Read
(appt. 5/5/59)
9. MAHALAPYE SUB-DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1954
Dennis A.T. Atkins
Asst. DO (appt. 29/7/52)
1956
George Winstanley
Asst. DO on probation (appt.
11/8/54)
1957
Ernest H. Midgley
(appt. 9/3/61)
?
Richard Mannothoko
1963-1964
Leonard M. Manson
DC (on contract 21/1/63), ex-Nigeria
& Tanganyika
10. MOCHUDI DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1900
Nelson W. Fogarty
Clerk
1935
Sydney V. Lawrenson
Acting Additional Resident
Magistrate (appt. 1/7/34)
1936
Sydney C. Parker
Acting RM on loan from S.
Rhodesia (appt. 19/2/36)
1937
Sydney V. Lawrenson
(appt. 1/7/34)
1938
Claude C. McLaren
Asst. DC (appt. 1/2/37)
1939-1940
David Bowie Sinclair
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/37)
1941
Richard Benjamin Magniac
Sullivan
Asst. DC (appt. 7/2/35)
1943
William Hunter Jackson Cairns Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/38)
1944-1945
R.B.M. Sullivan [again]
Asst. DC (appt. 1/10/45)
1947
Percivale Cardross Grant
Asst. DC (appt. 23/4/37)
1948-1949
Alistair J.T.M. Macrae
Asst. DC (appt. 17/6/38)
1950
Dennis A.T. Atkins
Asst. DC (appt. 31/5/46)
1951
Norman B. Rutherford
Asst. DC (appt. 1/9/41)
1952-1953
Percivale Cardross Grant
[again]
Asst. DC (appt. 5/2/49)
1954
(Major) John C.E. Bowen
DC (appt. 15/4/53 on 4 year
contract)
10
1955-1958
Charles Eustice Clark
DC (appt. 16/8/51)
1959-1960
Annesley Wallace M. Dickie
DC (appt. 4/7/55)
1961-1962
George Winstanley
DC (appt. 11/8/54), 1962 to Councils
1963-1964
Patrick W. Reardon
DC (appt. 9/3/61)
11. MOLEPOLOLE DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1915-1923?
H.B. Neale
Acting & then substantive Resident
Magistrate
1923
Claud M. Ledeboer
RM
1923
J.W. Potts
Acting Assistant RM
1923?-1930
H.B. Neale (again)
RM
1930-1931
H.B. Neale (again)
District Commissioner
1931-1932
W.E. Mangan
Acting DC
1933-1935
S.L.F. Towne
Acting Assistant DC (appt. 1/4/30)
1937-1938
Jean D. A. Germond
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/37)
1939-1940
Richard Benjamin Magniac
Sullivan
Asst. DC (appt. 7/2/35)
1941-1942
Arthur Norman Wagner
Matthews, BA
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/37)
1943-1946
William Edward Mangan
(appt. 9/3/36)
1947
Claude C. McLaren
(appt. 1/1/37)
1948-1950
Norman B. Rutherford
Asst. DC (appt. 1/9/41)
1949
Michael J. Fairlie
Asst. DC
1951-1954
Charles Eustice Clark
DC (appt. 17/6/48)
1955-1958
Percivale Cardross Grant
DC (appt. 5/12/49)
1958-1960
Koodibetse M. Kgopo
DC (appt. 28/5/54)
1960-1961
John M. van Riet Lowe
DC (appt. 4/11/59)
1962-1963
Michael C.B. Williams
on probation (appt. 17/8/60, off to
Secretariat)
1963-1964
Stephen Julian Tennant
DC (appt. 15/4/62)
12. NGAMILAND DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
11
1923
Capt. A.G. Stigand
Resident Magistrate, Toteng
1931
Vivien F. Ellenberger
Acting District Commissioner, Maun
1932-1933
A.L. Cuzen
DC
1933-1936
W. Potts
DC (appt. 3/4/29)
1937-1938
William Forbes Mackenzie
Acting (Asst.) DC (appt.10/1/36)
1937
Edmund H. Ashton, PhD
Asst. DC (appt. 20/4/36)
1937-1938
William F. Mackenzie
Acting Asst. DC (appt. 10/1/36)
1939-1941
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson
Asst DC (appt. 1/1/35)
1942-1943
Richard Benjamin Magniac
Sullivan
Asst. DC (appt.1/7/28, appt. 7/2/35)
1944-1945
William Hunter Jackson Cairns,
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/38)
BA
1947
Jean D. Arnaud Germond
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/37)
1948
George J.L. Atkinson
Asst. DC (appt. 19/8/38)
1949
Philip Gordon Batho
DC (appt. 1/7/37)
1950-51
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson
DC (appt. 7/8/42)
1951
(Major) J.C.E. Bowen
DC (appt.7/4/50 on 4 year contract)
1952
Rowland A.R. Bent
(appt. 19/11/49)
1952-1954
James A. Allison
(appt. 14/8/50)
1955-1956
Arthur N.W. Matthews
(appt. 4/3/48)
1956
Annesley W.M. Dickie
(appt. 4/7/55)
1957-1959
Michael R.B. Williams
(appt. 21/11/55)
1960-1963
Charles Eustice Clark
(appt. 16/8/51)
1961
Michael R.B. Williams (again) (appt. 6/2/61)
1961
Brian F. Read
(appt. 5/5/59)
1962
Stephen J. Tennant
(appt. 15/4/58)
1962-1964
Mokwadi Tom M. Kgopo
(appt. 30/12/61)
1962
David W. Finlay
Asst DC on probation (appt. 26/6/62)
1964
Ian I. Gass
on contract (appt. 21/3/63)
1963 -5
Robert Gilkes
District Officer
13. SEROWE DISTRICT
Dates
1904-1907
Name
Rowland Mortimer Daniel
(1873-1957)
Details
Assistant Resident Magistrate
12
1907-1914
G.A. Merry
ARM
1915-1917
E.H.M. Drury
ARM
1916-1918
R. Reilly
Acting ARM 1916 then ARM 1917
1918-1921
C.R. [not G.E.]Nettelton
ARM
1921-1922
C.R. Nettelton (again)
Resident Magistrate
1922-1924
E.H.M. Drury
Acting ARM
1924-1927
H.B. Neale
Resident Magistrate
1927-1937
Gerald Enracht Nettelton
(d.1961?)
RM (appt. 1/4/24) & then District
Commissioner
1931-1932
W. Potts
Acting DC (appt. 3/4/29)
1934-37
J.W. Joyce
Asst DC (appt. 1/4/34)
1936
William Forbes Mackenzie
(1907-1980)
Asst DC (appt. 10/1/36)
1937
David Bowie Sinclair
Asst DC on probation (appt. 1/1/37)
1938
Vivien Frederic Ellenberger
(d.1977)
DC (Acting?)
1938
Percivale Cardross Grant
Acting DC (temp. from Molepolole)
1939-1941
Gerald Enracht Nettelton
(again)
DC (appt. 3/4/29)
1942-1946
William Forbes Mackenzie
(1907-1980)
DC (appt. 1/9/41)
1947-1948
Vivien Frederic Ellenberger
(again)
DC (appt. 1/4/34)
1949
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson
(1907-196?)
DC (appt. 7/8/42)
1950
William Forbes Mackenzie
(1907-1980)
DC & Senior DO (appt. 1/4/50) then
to Deputy RC, Mafeking
1950-1951
Sir Richard Benjamin Magniac
DC (off to Nigeria)
Sullivan
1951
Jean Daniel Arnauld Germond
(1904-1960s)DC & Senior DO
(appt.1/1/47)
1951
Claude C. McLaren
?Asst DC (appt. 22/7/48)
1951-1952
R.A.R. Bent
DC & Senior DO
1951-1952
Peter [sic above Percivale?]
Cardross Grant
Assistant DO (appt. 5/12/49)
1951-1963
James A. Allison
Assistant DO
1951-1953
Dennis A.T. Atkins
Asst. DO (appt. 31/5/46, o/seas
leave1951, appt. 29/7/52)
13
1952-1954/5
Philip Gordon Batho
DC (appt. 22/10/48)
1952-1953
Norman Bruce Rutherford
Asst.DO (appt. 1/9/51)
1952
Noel Vernon Redmond
Asst.DO (appt. 9/2/46, o/seas leave
1952)
1954-1957
Koodibetse M. Kgopo
Assistant DO (appt. 4/6/51, appt.
28/5/54)
1954, 1956
Noel Vernon Redmond [again] Assistant DO
1955-1958/9
Norman Bruce Rutherford
DC (appt. 1/9/51)
1957-1958
Annesley W.M. Dickie
Asst? DO (appt. 4/7/55)
1958-1960
Bakwena Kgari
Cadet DO (appt. 1/9/57)
1959-1963
David M. Robinson (d.1964)
DC (appt. 28/5/54)
1959-1960
Edward Brian Egner
Assistant DO
1959-1961
Peter John Heady
Assistant DO (appt. 1/11/57)
1961
David C. Mitchell
Asst. DO on probation (appt.
24/3/60)
1961
Patrick W. Deardon
Asst. DO (appt. 9/3/61)
1962
Michael O.S. Hawkins
Assistant DO (appt. 19/4/62)
1962
Julian M. van Riet Lowe
Asst. DO (to Indus. Dev. Team)
1962-1964
Jonathan A.S. Harlow
Assistant DO on probation (appt.
7/7/62)
1963
Ian I. Gass
Asst. DC on contract (appt. 21/3/63)
1963-1964
Michael R.B. Williams
DC (appt. 21/11/55)
? 1963-1965
David Millar
District Officer
1964
Peter C.N. Vaughon
Asst. DO on probation (appt.
11/7/63)
14. TSABONG DISTRICT
Dates
Name
Details
1933
S.V. Lawrenson
Acting District Commissioner
1934-1935
Edwin P. Arrowsmith
Acting DC (appt. 10/11/32, leave
1936)
1937-1938
Arthur N. Wagner Matthews
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/37)
1939-1940
Jean Daniel Arnauld Germond
Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/37)
1942
Philip Gordon Batho
Asst. DC (appt. 1/7/37)
1945
Ernest H. Midgeley
Asst. DC (appt. 17/6/44)
1947-1948
Michael J. Fairlie
Asst. DC (appt. 19/3/46)
14
1949
Dennis A.T. Atkins
Asst. DC (appt. 31/5/46)
1956
Michael R.B. Williams
on probation (appt. 17/6/54)
1957
Stephen J.O. Henn
on probation (appt. 23/7/55)
1958
G.W. Stiles
on contract (12/11/56)
1959
John M. van Riet Lowe
on probation (31/1/57)
1962-1963
Major J.C. Edward Bowen
on contract (25/4/61)
?
Egner
1965
Robert Gilkes
DC
15. OTHER RELEVANT MAGISTRATES
Dates
Name
Details
1877-1881
John Smith Moffat
Native Commissioner, Zeerust,
Transvaal Colony
1886-1887
J.S. Moffat
Civil Commissioner &Resident
Magistrate, Taung, British
Bechuanaland
-1886
J.E. [not W.H.] Surmon
CC & RM, Mafeking, BB
1886-
A.F. Robertson
CC & RM, Vryburg, BB
1886-
?
Chief Magistrate, Vryburg
1886-
?
Crown Prosecutor, Vryburg
1887-
?
CC & RM, Kuruman, BB
1889-
?
CC & RM, Gordonia (Upington)-excised from Bechuanaland
Protectorate to British Bechuanaland
1895-1896
Robert White
RM for Montsioa's [Barolong] &
Ikaneng's [Bamalete] Territories
B. Resident Commissioner's Office (Protectorate
Central Administration)
Note: The RESIDENT COMMISSIONER was the equivalent to a LieutenantGovernor in other British colonies, because the High Commissioner had the status of
a full Governor (and a Governor-General after 1910).
16. B.P. RESIDENT COMMISSIONERS (Vryburg, Mafeking &
Gaborone)
15
Dates
Name
Details
1885-1892
Sidney Godolphin Alexander
Shippard
Administrator (& Chief Magistrate
1885-1886) British Bechuanaland,
Vryburg, & then Deputy (High)
Commissioner for Bechuanaland
Protectorate, Vryburg, from 30
September 1885
1888
Francis James Newton (18571948)
Acting Administrator & Chief
Magistrate BB
1892
Francis James Newton (18571948)
Acting Administrator & Chief
Magistrate BB
1892-1895
S.G.A. Shippard (“Morena
Maka”)
Resident Commissioner for BP,
Vryburg, by 27 September 1892
Proclamation
1895-1896
Leander Starr Jameson (Dr.)
RC for Ikaneng’s & Montsioa’s
Territories, Pitsani
1896-1897
Francis James Newton (18571948)
RC for BP, at Mafeking
1897-1901
Hamilton John Goold-Adams
RC
1901-1906
Ralph Champneys Williams
RC
1907-1916
Francis William Panzera
RC
1916-1917
Edward Charles Frederick
Garraway (Dr.)
RC
1917-1923
James Comyn Macgregor
RC
1923-1927
Jules Ellenberger (1871-1969)
RC (“Ramaeba”)
1928-1930
Rowland Mortimer Daniel
RC
1930-1937
Charles Fernand Rey (18771968)
RC
1937-1942
Charles Noble Arden-Clarke
RC
1942-1946
Aubrey Denzil Forsyth
Thompson
RC
1946-1950
Anthony Sillery (1903-1976)
RC
1950-1953
Edward Betham [sic] Beetham
(1905-) RC, former RC
Swaziland 19461950(“Hlangabeza”)
1953-1955
William Forbes Mackenzie
(1907-)
1955-1959
Martin Osterfield Wray (1912-) RC
1959-1964
Robert Peter Fawcus
RC, ex Deputy RC & GS Swaziland
1949-1950
RC (Acting 1957)
16
1964-1965
Robert Peter Fawcus (again)
Queen’s Commissioner/ Her
Majesty’s Commissioner
1965-1966
Hugh Selby Norman-Walker
Queen’s Commissioner/ Her
Majesty’s Commissioner
17. B.P. GOVERNMENT SECRETARIES (& DEPUTY RESIDENT
COMMISSIONERS)
Dates
Name
Details
1889-1892
Francis James Newton (18571948)
Colonial Secretary & ReceiverGeneral for BB, Vryburg
1901?
Barry May
Government Secretary BP, Mafeking
?
James Comyn Macgregor
GS, Mafeking (ex-Basutoland)
1917
Jules Ellenberger
Acting GS, Mafeking
1922-1923
Jules Ellenberger (again)
GS
1923-1935
C.L.O’Brien Dutton
GS
1935
Harold B. Neale
GS (appt. 1/4/34)
1937-1942
Aubrey Denzil Forsyth
Thompson
GS & Acting Assistant RC (appt.
15/4/37)
1942-1950
Gerald E. Nettelton
GS & Assistant RC till 1944 Deputy
RC (appt. 7/8/42)
1946-1947
Vivian F. Ellenberger
Acting Deputy RC (appt. 21/8/46)
1950
Arthur W. Waters
Acting GS & Deputy RC (seconded
from HCO 14/8/50)
1951-1954
William Forbes Mackenzie
GS & Deputy RC (appt. 1/4/51)
1954-1959
Robert Peter Fawcus (1915-)
GS & Deputy RC (appt. 18/3/54)
1957
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson
Acting GS
1959-1962
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson
(again)
GS & Deputy RC
1962-1964
Arthur John Alexander Douglas GS & Deputy RC
1964-1965
Arthur John Alexander Douglas
Chief Secretary
(again)
18. OTHER OFFICERS IN GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
(Vryburg, Mafeking & Gaborone)
Dates
-1885
Name
John Anchitel Ashburnham
Details
Clerk to Administrator & Deputy
17
Commissioner, Vryburg (Secretariat
1886-)
1936
Herbert H. Price
Assistant GS (appt. 1/4/35)
1951-1954
Courtenay Robert Latimer
(1911-)
1st Assistant (Government)
Secretary
1954-195?
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson
(1907-)
Acting Assistant RC & 1st Assistant
(Government) Secretary (appt.
1/10/51)
1959
John R. Wakefield
seconded to Secretariat (appt.
17/7/58)
-1960
James A. Allison
Senior DO seconded to Secretariat
(appt. 1/4/58)
1960
Arthur John Alexander Douglas
Senior DO, ex-Basutoland, seconded
to Secretariat (appt. 2/11/59)
1960
Hugh B. Murray-Hudson
seconded to Secretariat
1960
Michael R.B. Williams
seconded to Secretariat (appt.
21/11/55)
1963
Peter J. Heady
Assistant (Government) Secretary
(appt.1/11/57)
19. B. P. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (excluding Police)
19a Agriculture
Dates
Name
Details
1946-1954
Ian Soot Hutcheson
Agricultural Officer
1954-1957+
Ian Soot Hutcheson
Director of Agriculture
1957
W.J. Chase &c.
Dairy Officers, Agric Dept
1957
C.A. Challis &c.
Daily Officers, Agric Dept
19b Audit
Dates
Name
Details
-1890
?
Local Auditor, Vryburg
1957
J.H. Belderson
Principal Auditor, Audit Dept.
19c Education
18
Dates
Name
Details
1928-1935
Henry James Edward Dumbrell Inspector of Education,
(1885-)
Bechuanaland & Swaziland
1936-1945
Henry James Edward Dumbrell Director of Education, Bechuanaland
(1885-)
Protectorate
1945-1952
Jowitt
1947-1951
James Guthrie Gardiner (1907Education Officer
1963)
1951-1952
James Guthrie Gardiner (1907Principal Education Officer
1963)
1951-1955
Charles John Hunter (19141964/5)
1952-1962
James Guthrie Gardiner (1907Director of Education
1963)
1957
G.P.E. Dixon
Education Officer, Educ Dept
-1955
Charles John Hunter (19141964/5)
Deputy Director, Educ Dept
1957
J.F. Leech
Welfare Officer, Educ Dept
1962-1964/5
Charles John Hunter (19141964/5)
Director of Education
John William Blake (1911-)
Principal & Vice-Chancellor,
University of Basutoland,
Bechuanaland & Swaziland
1964-1971
Director of Education
Education Officer, ex-Johannesburg
Star newspaper
19d Finance
Dates
Name
Details
-1886
?
Receiver & Accountant-General,
Vryburg
-1888
?
Receiver-General, Vryburg
1889-1892
Francis James Newton (18571948)
Receiver-General, Vryburg
-1890
?
Tender Board, Vryburg
-1891
?
Receiver-General, Vryburg
-1954
C.R. Latimer (1911-)
Acting Secretary for Finance
19e Geological Survey
Dates
Name
Details
19
-194
James Wayland
ex-Uganda
1954-1957+
Richard Bradford McConnell
(1903-)
Director of Geological Surveys, exUganda
1957
Colin Boocock &c,
Geologists, Geol Surv Dept
1957
O.J. Van Straten
Petrologist, Geol Surv Dept
19f Justice
Dates
Name
Details
c. 1893
J. Vintcent
Crown Prosecutor, Vryburg
1957
R. Kelly
Legal Adviser to RC (Minchin &
Kelly)
1957
Alan G. Tilbury
Registrar of High Court
Alan G. Tilbury
Attorney-Generl
19g Land Survey
Dates
Name
Details
-1885
?
Registrar of Deeds, Vryburg
-1887
?
Surveyor-General, Vryburg
19h Medical
Dates
Name
Details
-1887
?
District Surgeon, Vryburg
1892
?
Hospital (Superintendant), Vryburg
c.1893
Garraway
Medical Officer, BB Police,
Gaberones
-1935
Manuel Lazarus Freedman
(1912-)
Medical Officer
1947-1949
Manuel Lazarus Freedman
(1912-)
Acting Director of Medical Services
1949-1957+
Manuel Lazarus Freedman
(1912-)
Director of Medical Services
1957
B.T. Squires &c,
Medical Officers, Med Serv Dept
1957
W.R. Gemmell &c,
Medical Officers, Med Serv Dept
1957
C.A. Van Rooyen
Medical Officer, Med Serv Dept
20
19i Posts & Telegraphs
Dates
Name
Details
-1892
?
Postmaster-General, Vryburg
1957
L.G. Duhy
Senior Postmaster, Posts &
Telegraphs Dept
19j Public Works
Dates
Name
Details
1955-1957+
Harold Edward Coney(1920-)
Deputy Director, PWD
1956-1957+
Donald David Grieve (1914-)
Director of Public Works
1957
J.L. Harrison
Architect, PWD
19k Stores
Dates
Name
Details
1891-?
?
Officer in Charge of Stores, Vryburg
1957
M.F.H. Lemon
Controller of Stores
19l Treasury
Dates
Name
Details
1950-1957+
George Anthony Ley Rutledge Treasurer, ex-Tanganyika &
(1913-)
Basutoland
1957
A.J. Beeby
Assistant Treasurer, Treasury Dept
19m Veterinary
Dates
Name
Details
1951-1957+
John Edward Riley Roe
Director of Veterinary Services. exNigeria
1955-1957+
Kenneth Unsworth (1919-)
Deputy Director, Vet Serv Dept, exWest Africa
21
1957
J. Falconer &c.
Veterinary Officers, Vet Serv Dept
19n Other
Dates
Name
Details
1888-
?
Sundry Officials, Vryburg [sic]
1891-1892
?
Director of Census, Vryburg
1936
Edmund Hugh Ashton
Assistant DC, Mafeking? (appt.
20/4/36)
1944-1945
John Walter Joyce
Mafeking (appt. 30/10/42)
c.1945-1950
Arthur Willoughby Walters
(1900-)
?
1946
Richard B.M. Sullivan
Mafeking (appt. 1/10/45)
1947-1948
Arthur N.W. Matthews
Assistant DC, Mafeking? (appt.
1/1/37)
1955-1957
James A. Allison
Mafeking (appt. 14/8/50)
1962
George Winstanley
seconded to Councils, Lobatse?
(appt. 11/8/54)
1962
John M. Van Riet Lowe
seconded to Industry Development
Team, Lobatse? (appt.
1963
M.C.B. Williams
seconded to Livestock Development
Trust, Lobatse?
1969
Jerome Oputa Udoji (1917-)
reported on localization in
Botswana, Swaziland, etc.
C. Bechuanaland Police Officers & Men
20. BECHUANALAND FIELD FORCE
Dates
Name
Details
1884-1885
Frederick Carrington (18441913)
Major? (2nd Mounted Rifles),
Commander BFF
1884-1885
R.E.R. Martin
(6th Dragoons)
1884-1885
Hamilton John GooldAdams(1858-1920)
(Royal Scots Fusiliers)
1884-1885
P.L. McKie
(Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders)
22
1884-1885
A.J. Bethell
(South Lancashire Regiment)
1884-1885
Stanley Lowe
1884-1885
Samuel Howard (“Matabele”)
Edwards (1827-1922)
Major BFF
1884-1885
E.A. Maund
Lieutenant BFF
1884-1885
J.S. Ingram
Lieutenant BFF (Methuen’s Horse)
1884-1885
George Smyth Baden-Powell
(1847-1898)
BFF
21. BECHUANALAND BORDER POLICE
Dates
Name
Details
1885-1993
Frederick Carrington (18441913)
Colonel, Commander BBP
-1885
R.E.R. Martin
Major BBP
1885-1893
Hamilton John GooldAdams(1858-1920)
Lieutenant BBP
-1885
P.L. McKie
Lieutenant BBP
-1885
A.J. Bethell
Lieutenant BBP
-1885
Stanley Lowe
Major, Commander Bechuanaland
Mounted Police, Vryburg, British
Bechuanaland
-1885
McCallum
Lieutenant BBP
1885-1887
Bates
Lieutenant BBP
-1885
Haynes
Lieutenant BBP
-1891
?
Ordinance & Commissariat Officer
c.1893
F.W. Panzera
Major, BBP
1893-1894+
Walsh
Lt BBP, Ngamiland
1893-1895
Hamilton John GooldAdams(1858-1920
Major, Commander BBP
c.1894
Gosling
Capt. BBP
1894-95
Fuller
Capt. BBP with Ghanzi trekkers
22. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE DIVISION I (including
Bechuanaland Native Police)
23
23. BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE POLICE
Dates
Name
Details
1950s
Nchindo (Sergeant)
transferred from B.P. to Swaziland
1955-1957+
Reginald Montague Williams
(1914)
Deputy Commissioner of Police, exBasutoland
1956-1966+
James Thomas Atherstone
Bailey (1912-)
Commissioner of Police, exSouthern Rhodesia 1937-1942 &
Gold Coast 1942-1956
1957
C.A. Webb
Assistant Superintendent, Police
D. High Commissioner's Office (Cape Town, Pretoria
&c.)
Note: The HIGH COMMISSIONER was a secondary appointment held by the
Governor of Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1848-1901, and of the GovernorGeneral of the Union of South Africa 1910-1930. During 1930-63 the position of
High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate & Swaziland (BBS)
became the secondary appointment held by the United Kingdom High Commissioner
(UKHC, i.e. ambassador) to the Union of South Africa.
1950s addresses: (a) June-January: Hill Street, Pretoria; (b) January-June: 91
Parliament Street, Cape Town; (c) Passport office: 16-18 Bloem Street, Cape Town;
(d) UK Information Office, 126 London House, Loveday Street, Johannesburg.
24. HIGH COMMISSIONERS &c.
Dates
Name
Details
1834-1838
Benjamin D’Urban
Major-General, Governor &
Commander-in-Chief, Cape Colony
1838-1844
George T. Napier
ditto
1844-1847
Peregrine T. Maitland
ditto
1847-1852
Harry G.W. Smith
Major-General, C-in-C of CC
1847-1854?
Henry Pottinger
Governor of Cape Colony & High
Commissioner for South Africa (‘for
the settling and adjustment of the
affairs of the territories adjacent or
contiguous to the frontier’, according
to Act 912 of 1848 p.5) civilian,
former British East India Company
(appt. 21 Jan.1847)
1848-1852
H.D. Warden
Major, Resident of Orange River
24
Sovereignty
1852-1854
H. Green
ditto
1852-1854
George Cathcart
Lieutenant-General, C-in-C of CC
1854
C.H. Darling
Governor of CC & HC for SA
1854-1861
George Grey
ditto (appt. Dec. 1854)
1859-1862
R.H. Wynyard
Lieut.-Gen., C-in-C of CC
1861-1862
ditto
Acting HC for SA
1862-1870
Philip E. Wodehouse
Governor of CC & HC for SA
1870
C.C. Hay
Acting ditto
1870-1877
Henry Barkly
Governor of CC & HC for SA
1873 (Jan.July)
R. Southey
Administrator, Griqualand West
1873-1875
ditto
Lieutenant-Governor, Griqualand
West
1875-1879
Owen Lanyon
Administrator, Griqualand West
1877-1879
Theophilus Shepstone
Administrator, Transvaal Colony
1879-1881
Owen Lanyon (again)
Acting Administrator, Griqualand
West
1879-1880
ditto
Acting Administrator, Transvaal
Colony
1880-1881
ditto
Administrator (substantive),
Transvaal
1877-1880
Bartle Frere
Governor of CC and HC for SA
1880
H.H. Clifford
Major-General, Acting ditto
1880-1881
G.C. Strahan
Acting ditto
1881-1889
Hercules George Robert
Robinson (1824-1897)
Governor of CC & HC for SA
1883
L. Smyth
Lieut.-Gen., Acting ditto
1886
H.D. [or H.A.] Turrens
ditto
1889
ditto
ditto
1889-1895
Henry Brougham Loch (later
Lord Loch) (1827-1900)
Governor of CC & HC for SA
1891-1892
W.G. Cameron
Gen.?, Acting ditto
1894
ditto
ditto
1894
Goodenough
Gen?, Acting ditto
1895-1897
Hercules George Robert
Robinson (Baron Rosmead
Governor of CC & HC for SA
25
1896) (1824-1897)
1897-1901
Alfred Milner
ditto (appt. March 1897)
1898-1899
William Butler
Acting ditto
1901-1910
W. Hely-Hutchinson
Governor of CC (appt. March 1901)
1901-1905
Alfred Milner (now Viscount
Milner) (1854-1925)
HC for SA, Governor of Transvaal
& Orange River Colonies, at
Johannesburg
1905-1910
William Waldegrave Palmer
(Earl of Selborne) 1859-1942)
HC for SA (only)
1910-1914
Herbert Gladstone (Viscount
Gladstone)
Governor-General of the Union of
South Africa, and HC for
Basutoland, Bechuanaland
Protectorate, Southern Rhodesia, and
Swaziland
1914-1920
(Lord) Sydney Charles Buxton
GG & HC
(1853-1934)
1920-1923
Arthur Duke of Connaught (aka
Prins Artur von Teck) (1883GG & HC
1938)
1924-1930
Alexander Augustus Frederick
William Alfred George
Cambridge (Earl of Athlone)
(1874-1957)
1930/1?-1935 Herbert Stanley
GG & HC
HC (UK Diplomatic Representative)
to the Union of SA & High
Commissioner for BBS
1931
Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford
(1890-1969)
Acting HC
1935-1939
William Henry Clark (18761952)
HC
1940-1941
Edward John Harding (18801954)
HC
1941-1943
William George Arthur
Ormsby-Gore (Lord Harlech)
(1885-1954) HC
1944-1951
Evelyn Baring (later Lord
Howick)
1951-1955
John Helier Le Rougetel (1895HC
1975)
1955-1958
Percivale Liesching (18951973)
HC
HC in Union & HC for BBS,
previously PUS in CRO 1949-1955
26
-1956
Henry Sydney Herbert Stanley
(1920-)
HC to SA, Sept. 1956-
1960?
John Maud (later Lord
Redcliffe-Maud)
HC
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25. IMPERIAL/ CHIEF SECRETARIES & DEPUTY HIGH
COMMISSIONERS
Dates
Name
Details
1924-1931
Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford
(1890-1969)
Imperial Secretary
1939-1940
Peter Alexander Clutterback
(1897-)
Deputy HC, Aug 1939-May 1940
1942-1946
Cecil George Lewis Syers
(1903-)
Deputy HC UKSAHCO
1948-1950
William Arthur Weir Clark
(1908-)
Chief Secretary HCO
1949-1953
Horace Algernon Fraser
Rumbold (1906)
Deputy HC, ex-India Office 19291947, then to CRO
1950-1953
Roland Evelyn Turnbull (1905Chief Secretary to HC
)
1953-1956
Arthur Wendell Snelling (1914- Deputy HC (for UKSA?), May
)
1953-Jan? 1956
1953-1960
Thomas Vaisey Scrivenor
(1908-98)
Deputy HC (for BBS), ex-Palestine
& Nigeria
-1956
Ronald Harry Belcher (1916-)
Deputy HC for UKSA [not BBS
Dept]
1959-1963
Horace Algernon Fisher
Rumbold (1906-)
Deputy HC, Sept.1949-Feb.1953,
then Assistant Under-Secretary of
State for CR 1954
1960-1964
Courtenay Robert Latimer
(1911-)
Chief Secretary HCO
26. HCO (BBS) JUDICIAL OFFICERS
Dates
Name
Details
1937-1948
Walter Clarence Huggard
(d.1957)
Judge of HCT & Legal Advisor to
HC
1947-1958
Arthur Clement Thompson
Attorney-General & Legal Adviser
27
(1896-)
to HC
1948?-1951
Walter Harragin (1890-1966)
ditto
1951-1952
ditto
Chief Justice HCT
1952-1956
Harold Curwen Willan (18961971)
Chief Justice, HCT
1953-1957+
Cornelius Banahan O’Beirne
(1915-)
Crown Counsel BBS, ex-Nigeria;
Solicitor General HCO; Legal
Advisor to HC
1955-1957+
Isadore Victor Elyan (1909-)
Puisne Judge of BBS, ex-Gold Coast
1955-1960
George Graham Paul (18871960)
Judge BBS Court of Appeal
1955-1964?
Walter Harragin (again)
Judge BBS Court of Appeal
1957
Herbert Charles Fahie Cox
Chief Justice of BBS
1961-1964
Peter Watkin-Williams (1911-) Chief Justice of BBS
27. OTHER HCO OFFICE STAFF
27a HCO Office Staff
Dates
Name
Details
1897-1902
George Vandeleur Fiddes
(1858-1936)
various posts in S.A.
c.1906-
Harry Lester Smith (1884-)
Boy clerk at HCO
1930s
Harry Lester Smith (1884-)
Assistant & then Administrative
Secretary of HCO
1930s
Walter Burford Johnson (1885Medical Advisor to HC
1951)
1930s-1940s
Russel William Thornton
(1881-)
Agricultural Adviser to HC
c.1935
Thelma Agatha O'Dowd
Senior Clerk to Auditor HCT
c.1936
Ezekiel Cohen
Principal Clerk HCO
1935-1948
Harold Eddey Priestman
Administrative Secretary to HC
c.1937
Hlendon Egerton Houghton
(1892-)
Clerk HCO
1938-1946
David Bootle (1894-)
Clerical Officer HCO, Sept 1938July 1946
1947-1956
John Henry Belderson (1903-)
Principal Auditor HCT
1939-1944
Ben Cockram (1903-)
Political Secretary to HC, June 1939Oct.1944
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1940-1944
Representative of HCT in (to
Alan Geoffrey Tunstal Chaplin
Government of) the Union of South
(1908-)
Africa [only holder of this post?]
1940-1945
Samuel Burnside Boyd
McElderyy (1885-)
HCO, ex-Swaziland
c.1941
Janet Ada Johnson
Office Superintendent HCO
1941-1945
Neil Pritchard (1911-)
HCO, April 1941-Sept.1945, then
back to DO
1944-1948
A.G.T. Chaplin (1908-) (again)
Assistant Administrative Secretary
to HC
1945-1948
Ian Morris Ross Maclennan
(1909-)
HCO, May 1945-Aug. 1948
1946-1950
David John Edward Harris
(1897-)
Higher Clerical Officer HCO, June
1946-June 1950
1948-1950
William Arthur Weir Clark
(1908-)
Chief Secretary to HC for BBS
1948-1950
David Watham Stather Hunt
(1913-)
HCO, transferred to office of UK
Prime Minister (W.C. Churchill,
1950-1952 30 Sept.), see autobiog.
Sept. 1948-March 1950.
1948-1951
James Reginald Alfred
Bottomley (1920-)
HCO, Jan 1948-March 1951
1949-1951
Courtenay Robert Latimer
(1911-)
Assistant Secretary HCO
1949-1954
Ronald Hickling (1915-)
Deputy Director UK Information
Office Johannesburg
1950
Philip G. Batho
seconded from BP to HCO (appt.
22/10/48)
1950-1952
David John Edward Harris
(1897-)
Higher Executive Officer HCO?? [or
CRO??]
1950-1952
Leonard John Dean Wakely
(1909-)
UKSA HCO
1950-1953
Edwin James Sharp (1895-)
Executive Officer HCO, USeducated, March 1950-May 1953,
next back to CRO
1950-1953
Arthur Willoughby Walters
(1900-)
Assistant Chief Secretary
1951
John Crawford Martin (19141964)
Secretary to HCO, ex-Swaziland,
transferred to CRO
1951-1953
David Aubrey Scott (1919-)
HCO, Jan. 1951-Aug.1953, off to
Cabinet Office London 1954-1956
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?1951-1953
Michael James Fairlie (1920-)
Private Secretary to HC, ex-BP, then
1955-55 DC Swaziland, CRO 19551958
1951-1954
John Crawford Martin (1914-)
Assistant Secretary HCO
1951-1957
Anne Millar Easton
Private Secretary to Chief Justice
1952-1955
Ronald Charles Colin Hunt
(1916-)
HCO, Oct. 1952-Jan.1955
1952-1954/5
Martin Osterfield Wray (1912-)
Administrative Secretary HCO, exZanzibar
1953-1954
Sidney James McNally (1902-)
Executive Officer HCO, March
1953-May 1954
1953-1956
William Geoffrey Smith (1916UKSA HCO
)
1953-1957+
George Francis Crawley (1896- Director UK Information Office,
)
Johannesburg, March 1953-
1953-1955
John Amyst Steward (1912-)
Assistant Secretary HCO
1953-1956
William Jeffery Smith (1916-)
HCO, Oct.1953-June 1956
-1954
Robert Peter Fawcus
1st Assistant Secretary HCO
c.1954
John Elwayn Sedgwick
Clayden (1922-)
HCO
1954-1956
Henry Sydney Herbert Stanley
(1920-)
HC0 for BBS, Oct.1954-Sept.1956
1954-1956
David Russell Francis Brower
(1918-)
Deputy Director UK Information
Office, Johannesburg, Jan. 1954Sept 1956
1954-1960
Courtenay Robert Latimer
(1911-)
Secretary for Finance HCO
-1955
Frank Mills (1923-)
HCO, Jan.1955-, ex-CRO
1955-1963
John Amyst Steward (1912-)
Administrative Secretary HCO
1956-1957+
J.H. Belderson (again)
Director of Audit HCT
-1956
Peter James Scott Moon (19282nd Secretary HCO, Jan.1956)
1956-1957+
Henry Sydney Herbert Stanley
(1920-)
1st Secretary UKSA HCO
1957
J.A. Steward
Administrative Secretary HCO
1957
C.R. Latimer
Secretary for Finance HCO
1957
H.P. Ritchie
Assistant Secretary HCO
1957
C.D. Stenton
Assistant Secretary HCO
1957
G.J. Armstrong
Agent for HCT (Labour),
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Johannesburg
1957
D.K. Graham
Deputy Agent for HCT (Labour),
Johannesburg
1957
M.G. Mclean
Deputy Agent for HCT (Labour),
Randfontein
1957
E.G. Dutton
Deputy Agent for HCT (Labour),
Welkom
1957
N.A. Norval
Deputy Agent for HCT (Labour),
Springs
1958-1964
Arnold Sheen (1909-)
Assistant Secretary HCO
1959-1960
Gerald B. Ryan
seconded from BP to HCO (appt.
28/5/54)
c.1960
James Patrick Ivan Hennessy
(1923-)
Assistant Secretary HCO
c.1960
Arthur Cecil Griffin (18861968)
Advisor Economic Development to
HC
c.1960
Reginald Ernest Goodman
(1886-1968)
Auditor HCO
1960-1964
Francis William Essex (1916-)
Financial Secretary to HC
1963-1964
John Amyst Steward (1912-)
Secretary (Political) to HC
27b Commissioners & Official Visitors
Dates
Name
Details
c.1904-06
Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Chairman SA Native Affairs
Commission, ex RC Basutoland
1931-1932
Alan William Pim (1870-1958)
Chairman HCT Financial Position
Commission
1931-1932
Samuel Milligan (1874-1954)
Agricultural & Economic advisor to
Pim Commission, representative of
Empire Cotton Growing Corporation
in SA 1924-1935
1931-1932
Harry Lester Smith (1884-)
Secretary to Pim Commission
1939
Arthur Wendell Snelling
Acting Principal DO, touring HCT
with SS for Dominion Affairs, MayJune
1947-1948
Chairman HCT Commission into
Thomas Fitzgerald (1879-1959) Salaries & Conditions of Service in
Public Service
1949
Percivale Liesching (1895-)
1951-1952
Peter Brigstocke Lewis (1923-) touring HCT on behalf of CRO, Dec.
Special mission to SA & Southern
Rhodesia as PUSSCR
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1951-Feb.1952
1954
John Elwyn Sedgwick Clayden
with Symon Mission, April-June
(1922-)
1954
Alexander Colin Burlington
Symon (1902-)
chaired Mission to Review Financial
& Economic Position of HCTs,
April-June
1958-1959
Ernest Rex Edward Surridge
Chairman HCT Salaries Commission
1961-1962
Richard Ogilvy Ramage (1896Report on HCT public service
)
1964
Thomas Monier Skinner (1913Salaries Commissioner HCT
)
1965
Robert Stanley Porter (1924-)
1965
Frank Denry Clement Williams Member of HCT Economic Survey
(1913-)
Mission
1966
Advisor on development of
Stevens, Roger Bentham (1906University of Basutoland,
)
Bechuanaland & Swaziland
Chairman HCT Economic Survey
Mission
E. Colonial and Dominion Affairs/ Commonwealth
Relations Offices (London)
Note: The COLONIAL OFFICE (CO) was responsible for South Africa, Southern
Rhodesia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland until 1926/7, then
the DOMINIONS OFFICE (DO) till 1947 when it incorporated the India Office and
was renamed the COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS OFFICE (CRO). The CRO was
abolished in 1963?, after which responsibility for BBS reverted back to the
COLONIAL OFFICE.
28. SECRETARIES OF STATE
Dates
Name
Details
1834 Nov.
Duke of Wellington
Secretary of State for War &
Colonies (Nov.)
1834-1835
Lord Aberdeen
ditto
1835-1839
Charles Grant (Lord Glenelg)
ditto
1839-1841
(Lord) John Russell
ditto
1841-1845
(Lord) Stanley (Earl of Derby)
ditto
1845-1846
William E. Gladstone
ditto
1846-1852
Earl Grey
ditto
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1852
John Parkington
ditto
1852-1854
Duke of Newcastle
ditto
1854-1855
G. Grey
Secretary of State for Colonies
1855 Feb.
S. Herbert
ditto
1855 Feb.
Lord John Russell (again)
ditto
1855 July
W. Molesworth
ditto
1855-1858
Henry Labouchere
ditto (appt. Oct. 1855)
1858 Feb
Lord Stanley (aka Earl of
Derby) (again)
ditto
1858 June
E. Bulwer-Lytton
ditto
1859-1861
Duke of Newcastle (again)
ditto
1861-1866
E. Cardwell
ditto
1866-1867
Earl of Carnarvon
ditto
1867-1868
Duke of Buckingham
ditto
1868-1870
Earl Granville
ditto
1870-1874
Earl of Kimberley
ditto
1874-1878
Earl of Carnarvon (again)
ditto
1878-1880
M. Hicks-Beach
ditto
1882-1885
Earl of Derby (same or son?)
ditto
1885-1886
F.A. Stanley (relative?)
ditto
1886 Feb
Earl Granville (again)
ditto
1886-1887
Earl Stanhope
ditto (appt. Aug. 1886)
1887-1892
H. Holland (Lord Knutsford)
ditto
1892-1895
Marquis of Ripon
ditto
1895-1903
Joseph Chamberlain
ditto
1903-1905
Alfred Lyttelton
ditto
1905-1908
Earl of Elgin
ditto
-1908
Earl/ Marquis of Crewe
ditto (appt. April 1908)
1925-1929
Leopold S. Amery
SS for Dominion Affairs
1929-1930
Lord Passfield (aka Sidney
James Webb) (1859-1947) SS
for DA
1930-1935
J.H. Thomas
SS for DA
1935-1938
Malcolm Macdonald (1901-)
SS for DA
1938
Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley
SS for DA (May)
1938-1939
Malcolm Macdonald (1901-)
SS for DA (Nov.)
33
(again)
1939
Thomas Inskip, later 1st Lord
Caldecote
SS for DA (Feb.)
1939
Anthony Eden
SS for DA (Sept.), as well as SS for
Foreign Affairs?
1940
Thomas Inskip, now 1st Lord
Caldecote? (again) SS for DA
(May)
1940-1942
Robert Gascoyne Cecil, now
Viscount Cranbourne, later 5th SS for DA
Marquis of Salisbury (Oct.)
1942-1943
Clement R. Attlee
SS for DA
1943-1945
Cranbourne again
SS for DA
1945-1947
Christopher Addison, 1st
Viscount Addison
SS for DA
1947
Christopher Addison, 1st
Viscount Addison (July-Oct.)
SS for CR
1947-1950
Philip J. Noel-Baker
SS for CR (Oct.)
1950-1951
Patrick C. Gordon Walker
SS for CR (March)
1951-1952
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron
Ismay
SS for CR (Oct.)
1952
Robert Gascoyne Cecil, 5th
Marquis of Salisbury (March)
SS for CR
1952-1955
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st
Viscount later 1st Earl of
Swinton (Dec.)
SS for CR
-1955
Alexander Douglas-Home,
previously Dunglass , later 14th SS for CR (April)
Earl of Home
1962-1964
Duncan Sandys (aka Lord
Duncan-Sandys)
SS for Colonies
29. PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE/
MINISTERS OF STATE
Dates
Name
Details
1925-1927
George Villiers, 6th Earl
Clarendon
1927-1929
Simon Fraser, 4th Baron Lovat PUSS for DA
1929
Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl
PUSS for Dominion Affairs
PUSS for DA (Jan.)
34
Plymouth
1929
Arthur Ponsonby, later 1st
Baron Ponsonby
PUSS for DA (June)
1929
W. Lunn
PUSS for DA (Dec.)
1931-1935
Malcolm Macdonald (1901-)
PUSS for DA
1935
Edward Stanley, aka Lord
Stanley
PUSS for DA (June)
1935
Douglas Hacking, later 1st
Baron Hacking
PUSS for DA (Nov.)
1936-1940
Edward Cavendish, Marquess
of Hartington, later 10th Duke
of Devonshire
PUSS for DA
1940-1942
Geoffrey Shakespeare
PUSS for DA
1942-1945
P.V. Emrys-Evans
PUSS for DA
1945-1946
John Parker
PUSS for DA
1946-1947
Arthur G. Bottomley
PUSS for DA
1947-1949?
Arthur G. Bottomley
PUSS for Commonwealth Relations
(July)
1949?
Patrick C. Gordon Walker
PUSS for CR (Oct.)
1950
Angus Holden, 3rd Baron
Holden
PUSS for CR (March)
1950-1951
David Rees-Williams, 1st
Baron Ogmore
PUSS for CR (July)
1951
George Bingham, 6th Earl
Lucan
PUSS for CR (June)
1951-1954
J.G. Foster
PUSS for CR (Nov.)
1954
A.D. Dodds-Parker
PUSS for CR (Oct.)
1956
A.H.P. Noble
PUSS for CR (Dec.)
1956
Lord John Hope
PUSS for CR (Nov.)
1963-1964
George Charles Mercier Nairne
Minister of State for Commonwealth
Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord
Relations
Landsdowne)
30. PERMANENT UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE
Dates
1871-189?
Name
Robert George Wyndham
Herbert (1831-1905)
Details
PUS for the Colonies
35
1992-189?
Robert Henry Meade (18351898)
PUS for the Colonies
-1916
George Vandeleur Fiddes
(1858-1936)
PUS for the Colonies
1925-1930
Charles Davis
PUS for Dominion Affairs
1930-1939
Edward Harding
PUS for Dominion Affairs
1939-1940
Eric Machtig
Acting PUS for DA
1940
Cosmo Parkinson
PUS for Dominion Affairs
1940-1947
Eric Machtig (again)
PUS for Dominion Affairs
1947-1948
Eric Machtig (again)
PUS for Commonwealth Relations,
jointly with A. Carter ex-India
Office
1949-1955
Percivale Liesching (1895-)
PUS for CR, from Jan. 1949
-1955
John Gilbert Laithwaite (1894-) PUS for CR
31. DEPUTY UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE
Dates
Name
Details
1925-1930
Edward Harding
Deputy USS for Dominion Affairs
1930-1939
Harry Batterbee
Deputy USS for DA
1931-1936
Geoffrey Whiskard
Deputy USS for DA
1936-1940
Eric G.S. Machtig
Deputy USS for DA
1940-1947
John Stephenson
Deputy USS for DA
1947-1948
John Stephenson
Deputy USS for Commonwealth
Relations
1947-1948
W. Croft
Deputy USS for CR, ex India Office
1948-1951
Cecil George Lewis Syers
(1903-)
Deputy USS for CR (appt. June
1948)
1948-1949
John Gilbert Laithwaite (1894-)
Deputy USS for CR, ex India Office
1919-1947
1950-1951
Joseph John Saville Garner
(1908-)
Temporary Deputy USS for CR
1951-1952
Stephen Holmes
Deputy USS for CR
1952-1953
Alexander Colin Burlington
Symon
Temporary Deputy USS for CR
1953-1956
J.J. Saville Garner (again)
Deputy USS for CR
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32. ASSISTANT (PERMANENT) UNDER-SECRETARIES OF
STATE
Dates
Name
Details
1870-1871
Robert George Wyndham
Herbert
AUSS for Colonies, ex-Board of
Trade, Premier of Queensland
(1831-1905)
1871-1891
Robert Henry Meade (18351898)
AUSS for Colonies, ex-Foreign
Office
1876-189?
John Bramston (1832-1922)
AUSS for Colonies
1892-1896
Edward Fairfield
AUSS for Colonies
-1897
Frederick Graham (1848-1923) AUSS for Colonies
1909-1916
George Vandeleur Fiddes
(1858-1936)
AUSS for Colonies
1925-1930
Edward Harding
AUSS for Dominion Affairs
1930-1939
Harry Batterbee
AUSS for DA
1931-1936
Geoffrey Whiskard
AUSS for DA
1936-1939
E.G.S. Machtig
AUSS for DA
1939-1940
John E. Stephenson
AUSS for DA
1939-1942
Percivale Liesching (1895-)
AUSS for DA
1940-1947
Charles William Dixon (1888-)
AUSS for DA, ex DO 1929-1947 &
CO 1911-1929
1942-1946
Peter Alexander Clutterback
(1897-)
AUSS for DA
1946-1947
Cecil George Lewis Syers
(1903-)
AUSS for Dominion Affairs
1947-1948
Cecil George Lewis Syers
(1903-)
AUSS for Commonwealth Relations
1947-1948
Charles William Dixon (1888-) AUSS for CR
1947-1948
Paul Patrick
AUSS for CR, ex-India Office
1947-1955
G.H. Baxter
AUSS for CR, ex-India Office
1948-1949
N.E. Archer
AUSS for CR
1948-1950
Joseph John Saville Garner
(1908-)
AUSS for CR
1949
W.J. Garnett
AUSS for CR
1949-1952
Alexander Colin Burlington
Symon (1902-)
AUSS for CR
1949-1957+
William Aitken Brown
Hamilton (1909-)
AUSS for CR, also Director CRO
Establishments & Organisation
37
1950-1954
Neil Pritchard (1911)
AUSS for CR
1952-1953
Arthur Wendell Snelling
Temporary AUSS for CR
?1953-1954
A.C.B. Symon
AUSS for CR
1954?
Godfrey Ecclestone Boyd
(1907-)
AUSS for CR
1954-1956
William Arthur Weir Clark
(1908-)
AUSS for CR
1954-1956
Alexander Francis Morley
(1908-)
AUSS for CR
1954-1957+
Harold Algernon Fraser
Rumbold (1906-)
AUSS for CR
1954-1957+
Godfrey Eccleston Boyd
Shannon (1907-)
AUSS for CR
1954/5-1957+
Ian Morrison Ross Maclennan
(1909-)
AUSS for CR
1955-1956+
A.W. Snelling
AUSS for CR
1956-?
Godfrey Ecclestone Boyd
(1907-)
AUSS for CR
1956-?
Arthur Wendell Snelling
AUSS for CR
33. CO/DO/CRO JUDICIAL OFFICERS
Dates
-1950
Name
Humphrey Leslie Malcolm
Oxley (1956-)
Details
Senior Legal Assistant to CO &
CRO
34. OTHER CO/DO/CRO OFFICE STAFF
Dates
Name
Details
1866-1892
Edward Fairfield
CO Clerk, 2nd Class 1872, 1st Class
1880
1860-1896
Augustus William Lawson
Hemming (141-1907)
CO Clerk, to Governor of British
Guiana 1896
1870-1897
Frederick Graham (1848-1923) CO Clerk, Principal Clerk 1896
1881-1897
George Vandeleur Fiddes
(1858-1936)
CO Clerk, then to S.A.
1890s-1900s
Sidney James Webb (18591947)
CO Clerk
38
1890s
Sydney (later Lord) Olivier
CO Clerk, later Governor of Jamaica
1902-1909
George Vandeleur Fiddes
(1858-1936)
CO Clerk, then AUSS for Colonies
1911-1929
Charles William Dixon (1888-) CO, then DO
1920-1925
Percivale Liesching (1895-)
Assistant Principal Colonial Office
1925-1927
Percivale Liesching (1895-)
Assistant Principal Dominions
Office
1925-1937
Cecil George Lewis Syers
(1903-)
Assistant Principal CRO, Principal
1934-1937, then PM's Office
1927-1928
Percivale Liesching (1895-)
Principal DO
1928-1941
John Percival Gibson (1898-)
Permanent Secretary to PUS for
Dominion Affairs
1929-1947
Charles William Dixon (1888-)
DO to AUSS 1940, ex CO 19111929
1930-1938
Godfrey Eccleston Boyd
Shannon(1907-)
Assistant Principal DO 1930-1936,
Principal 1937-1938
1930-1943
Joseph John Saville Garner
(1908-)
Assistant Principal DO, Principal
1937
1933-1935
Percivale Liesching (1895-)
Political Secretary to UKHC in SA
1933-1941
Neil Pritchard (1911-)
DO, Principal 1939, then HCO in SA
1941
1936-1946
Arthur Wendell Snelling
Assistant Principal DO, Acting
Principal 1940, secretary to Maynard
Keynes at Bretton Woods conference
1944
1937-1940
Cecil George Lewis Syers
(1903-)
ex-Do, one of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain's private
secretaries, attached to Treasury
1939-1942
John Percival Gibson (1898-)
(again)
Assistant Secretary of State DO
1942-1946
Cecil George Lewis Syers
(1903-)
DO/CRO
1943-1948
Godfrey Eccleston Boyd
Shannon (1907-)
Assistant Secretary DO
1946-1953
William Geoffrey Smith (1916- Assistant Principal DO/ CRO,
)
Principal 1948-1953
1947
John Stephen Gandee (1909-)
Permanent Secretary to PUS for CR
& then to SSCR, Nov.1947-Jan.1949
John Percival Gibson (1898-)
Assistant Secretary CRO, ex-India
Office 1921-1947 (Assistant
Secretary 1941-1947)
1947-?
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1947-?
1947-1948
David Wathen Stather Hunt
(1913-)
Principal CRO, ex-British Army
military intelligence/official
historian/ archaeologist
1947-1950
Henry Sydney Herbert Stanley
(1920-)
Assistant Principal CRO, Principal
1949-1950
1947-1950
Edwin James Sharp (1895-)
Higher Executive Officer CRO,
Superintendent Africa & General
Division, ex-Indian Office 19211947, next to UKSAHCO
1947-1950
Leonard John Dean Wakely
(1909-)
Principal CRO, ex-India Office, then
to UKHCO SA
1948-1949
Frank Mills (1923-)
Assistant Principal CRO
1948-1951
David Aubrey Scott (1919-)
Assistant Principal CRO, Principal
1949-1951
1948-1951
Ian Morris Ross Maclennan
(1909-)
Assistant Secretary CRO
1948-1952
Roland Charles Colin Hunt
(1916-)
Assistant Principal CRO
1948-1951
Robert William Doughty
Fowler (1914-)
Principal CRO, ex-Burma
1948-1957+
Charles William Dixon (1888-)
CRO Advisor on Constitutional
Relations, ex AUSS 1940-1948
1949-1954
Margaret Lamb Dagleish
(1907-)
Private Secretary to PUSS for CR,
Jan. 1949-
1949-1951
David Aubrey Scott (1919-)
Assistant Private Secretary to SS for
CR
1949-1952
John Stephen Gandee (1909-)
Principal CRO
1950-1952
Eleanor Jean Emery (1918-)
Private Secretary to SS for CR,
March 1950-Feb.1952
1950
William H.J. Cairns
seconded to Colonial Office [sic]
from BP/ HCO
1950-1951
Temporary Assistant Principal then
Peter Brigstocke Lewis (1923-) Executive Officer CRO , ex-Ministry
of Education
1950-1952
David Wathen Stather Hunt
seconded from CRO to Office of UK
Prime Minister (W.S. Churchill)
April 1950-Sept.1952
1950-1954
William Arthur Weir Clark
(1908-)
Assistant [Under] Secretary [of
State] CRO
1951-1955
John Crawford Martin (1914-
Secretary CRO, ex HCO &
40
1964)
Swaziland
1952-1953
Frank Mills (1923-)
Private Secretary to PUSSCR
1952-1954
Eric Victor Vines (1929-)
Assistant Principal CRO
1952-1954
David Watham Stather Hunt
(1913-)
CRO Temporary Assistant Secretary
1953-1956
Robert William Doughty
Fowler (1914-)
Assistant Secretary CRO
1954
R.A.R. Bent
seconded for Economic
Development training to Colonial
Office [sic] from BP/ HCO BBS
(appt. 19/11/49)
1954-1955
Eric Victor Vines (1929-)
Assistant Private Secretary to SSCR
1954-1955
John Crawford Martin (1914-)
seconded to CRO from HCO
1954-1956
David Aubrey Scott (1919-)
Seconded from CRO to Cabinet
Office, London
1954-1956
Peter James Scott Moon (1928CRO
)
1954-1957+
Margaret Lamb Dagleish
(1907-)
Senior Executive Officer CRO
1955-1960
Roland Charles Colin Hunt
(1916-)
Assistant Secretary CRO
1955-1958
Michael James Fairlie (1920-)
Executive Officer, CRO BBS SubDept. economic development desk,
seconded from HCO BBS
1956
Eric Victor Vines (1929-)
Private Secretary to PUSS for CR
1956-1957+
Edwin James Sharp (1895-)
Temporary Senior Executive Officer
CRO, ex-HCO SA
c.1957
R.L. Baxter
CRO, in Federation of R&N Dept.
c.1957
E.P. McGee (Miss)
CRO, general policy BBS Sub-Dept.
c.1957
John Percival Gibson (1898-)
Head Migration & General Dept.
CRO
c.1957
David Watham Stather Hunt
(1913-)
Head Central African & [HC]
Territories Dept. CRO
1955-57+
Eleanor Jean Emery (1918-)
Higher Executive Officer CRO BBS
Sub-Dept general policy &
administration desk
Noel V. Redman
seconded for Economic
Development training to CRO from
BP/ HCO (appt. 28/5/54)
Joseph John Saville Garner
see his book The Commonwealth
1959-1960
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(1908-)
Office
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Steinhauer, D.R. (comp.) Awards and Honours in Swaziland: Some
Suggestions for a National Biographical Dictionary Kwaluseni: University
College of Swaziland Library, 1978. t2pp, mimeo. ISBN 0-7978-0034-3
Appendix:
Index to people’s names in Michael Fairlie, No Time Like the Past (Edinburgh:
Pentland Press, 1992), otherwise lacking an Index.
Arden-Clarke, Charles
209-10, 211
Atkins, Denis & Joan
85, 132, 142, 159
Balsan, Francois
132, 137, 155
Baring, Evelyn
87, 146-47, 149-50, 154, 230
Batho, Gordon & Ethel
95-102, 119
Beetham, Ted
143, 150, 152
Bent, Alan
148
Bosman, Ferdy & Edith
112
Bowen, John
147
Brockway, Fenner
190
Brown (Pollakowski), Louis
121-22, 127
Chiepe, Gaositwe
151
Dashwood, Jack
154
Douglas, Arthur
84-85, 209, 234
Duncan, Patrick
87
Duvenhage, Gert & Piet
131
Ellenberger, Vivien & Bimbi
92-93, 150
Emery, Eleanor
150, 188, 190, 194
Fawcus, Peter & Isobel
85, 154, 194, 209
42
Freedman, Dr Mendi
107
Forsyth-Thompson, Aubrey
90, 99
Fowler, Bob
188
Furse, Ralph
135, 151
Gaitskell, Arthur
160
Gemmel, Dr Bill & Anna
91, 145
Germond, Arnauld
102, 150, 239
Grant, Peter Cardross
145
Holmes, Gordon
145
Hunt, David
192
Khama, Seretse & Ruth
139-40, 144, 148, 192, 209, 234, 239
Khama, Tshekedi
104, 107, 111, 139, 148, 161, 192
Kgopo, K.M.
96, 138-41
Kgosidintsi, David
138
Laithwaite, Gilbert
188
Langley, Bob
131, 133
Le Rougetel, John
155-61
Lestrade, G.P.
113
Leswape, Montshiwa
126
Lethele, Glasstone
137
Liesching, Percivale
186
Mackenzie, Forbes
106, 143, 149-50
McLaren, Claude
107, 145
Manson, Dr John
142
Martin, Bob
154, 188, 228
Maud, John Redcliffe
209, 211
Merriweather, Alfred
139
Moapare, Mosiwa & Boy
125
Modise, E.K.
96
Moeketsi, Lancelot
138
Mogwe, rev. A.
142
Mothelesi, Kanon
121, 131
Nettelton, Gerald
90, 120, 140, 141, 146, 149
Otsheleng, Jackson
106
Page-Wood
107
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Parrish
112
Posthumus (Minchin), Connie
129, 133
Redman, Noel
133, 154, 193
Riley, Harry
96
Rumbold, Algernon
154
Rutherford, Bruce & Jessie
115, 142
Scott, David & Vera
154, 243
Seboni, Martinus
142
Sechele, Kgari
126, 138, 140-41, 217
Serema, Ernest
96, 98
Sillery, Anthony
116, 127, 141-42
Squires, Dr Bernard
91
Smuts, Jan
149-50
Storrs, Bill
161
Stuart, Constance
129
Sullivan, Richard & Muriel
90-91, 145
Symon, (Sir)
189-90
Taylor, Viole
98
Tebape, J,J,
106
Tsheko, Tsheko
97
Tsoebebe, Archaelaus
106
Turnbull, Roland
151, 154, 156
Van der Post, Laurens
129, 160
Wakeley, John
154, 159
Walters, Arthur
154
Willmot, E. Cronje
96
Wood, (Flt-Lt) Bill
157
Woodman, Ronnie
147
Extra thanks to:
 Gill Scrivenor for corrected dates for Sir Thomas Vaisey Scrivenor
 Bob Gilkes for data on himself and David Millar
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