1948
Commissioner of Police
I. 1.1938
1845
Registrar General
1.10.1929
Programme Secretary (Broadcasting)
25. 8.1858
Governor of the Gaol
Superintendent of Prisons
Commissioner of Prisons
1861
Secretary for Chinese Affairs
Secretary for Home Affairs
Superintendent of Victoria Gaol
Superintendent of Government Gardens
Superintendent of Botanical and Afforestation
Department
Superintendent of Botanical and Forestry
Controller of Broadcasting
1.12.1951
25. 7,1913
Director of Broadcasting
1.4.1961
Department
28. 2.1969
1.11.1937
4. 8.1863
1. 1.1938
31.12.1920
17. 6.1938
1. 6.1938
14.11.1938
1880
1906
1938-1941
Accountant General
Superintendent of Inland Revenue
Commissioner of Inland Revenue Controller of Stores
Director of Government Supplics Labour Officer
Commissioner of Labour Various war-time offices
1. 1.1947
4. 4.1969
24.10.1949
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established
Date of
GOVERNORS
Post
Change of Title
(a) ADMINISTRATORS
18.11.1940
Immigration Officer
Director of Immigration
Capt. Charles ELLIOT, RN
26. 1.1841
4. 8.1961
11. 9.1945
Director of Supplies, Trade and Industry
Alexander Robert JOHNSTON
22. 6.1841
Director, Supplies and Distribution
1949
The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry POTTINGER, PC, GCB
12. 8.1841
13. 9.1945
District Officer, New Territories
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30.11.1945
District Commissioner, New Territories Custodian of Property
15.12.1948
(b) GOVERNORS
21. 1.1946
Secretary for Development
1. 1.1947
Statistical Officer
The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry POTTINGER, PC, GCB Sir John Francis DAVIS, Bt., KCB
26. 6.1843
8. 5.1844
Government Statistician
22. 9.1948
1. 6.1947
Public Relations Officer
Sir Samuel George BONHAM, Bt., KCB Sir John BoWRING
21. 3.1848
13. 4.1854
Director of Information Services
19. 6.1959
27. 8.1947
Social Welfare Officer
Director of Social Welfare
1. 1.1958
The Rt. Hon. the Lord ROSMEAD, PC, GCMG (formerly
Sir Hercules ROBINSON, Bt.)
9. 9.1859
30. 9.1948
Senior Agricultural Officer
Sir Richard Graves MACDONNELL, KCMG, CB
11. 3.1866
Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
1. 4.1950
Director of Agriculture and Forestry
1.10.1960
Sir Arthur Edward KENNEDY, GCMG, CB
16. 4.1872
1. 4.1949
18. 8.1949
24.10.1949
5. 5.1950
Director of Agriculture and Fisheries Director, Hong Kong Government, London
Administrative Commissioner for the Hong Kong Government in London Commissioner of Registration of Persons Commissioner, Essential Services Corps Registrar of Co-operative Societies
1. 7.1964
20. 8.1969
Sir William ROBINSON, GCMG
Registrar of Co-operative Societies and
Director of Marketing
20.10.1950
Commissioner for Co-operative Development
and Registrar of Co-operative Societies Commissioner for Co-operative Development
and Fisheries
Sir John Pope HENNESSY, KCMG
The Rt. Hon. Sir George Ferguson BOWEN, PC, GCMG
Sir George William DES VOEUX, GCMG
Sir Henry Arthur BLAKE, GCMG
The Rt. Hon. Sir Matthew NATHAN, PC, GCMG
The Rt. Hon. the Lord LUGARD, PC, GCMG, CB, DSO
22. 4.1877
30. 3.1883
6.10.1887
10.12.1891
25.11.1898
29. 7.1904
3.11.1959
* Sir Francis Henry MAY, GCMG
29. 7.1907
24. 7.1912
1.7.1960
Sir Reginald Edward STUBBS, GCMG
26.10.1951
Chief Staff Officer, Civil Aid Services
* Sir Cecil CLEMENTI, GCMG
1. 1.1952
19. 4.1954
Government Printer
Commissioner for Resettlement
20.12.1954
20. 3.1957
Registrar of Trade Unions
Commissioner for Housing
6. 4.1959
Census Commissioner
Commissioner for Census and Statistics
Commissioner of Census and Statistical Planning
1. 5.1962
4.12.1967
1. 2.1961
Controller, Public Enquiry Service
17.11.1963
Director, Organizational Surveys Unit
1. 4.1964
26.11.1965
Commissioner of Banking
Commissioner for Transport
Sir William PEEL, KCMG, KBE
Sir Andrew CALDECOTT, GCMG, CBE
Sir Geoffry Alexander Stafford NORTHCOTE, KCMG
Sir Mark Aitchison YOUNG, GCMG
30. 9.1919
1.11.1925
9. 5.1930
12.12.1935 28.10.1937
10. 9.1941
* Sir Alexander William George Herder GRANTHAM, GCMG 25.7.1947
Sir Robert Brown BLACK, GCMG, OBE
* Sir David Clive Crosbie TRENCH, GCMG, MC,
ax Machrutsa
Eme
the time of appointment.)
23. 1.1958
14. 4.1964
14.1964
(Note: In the above list, the honours are those finally held-not necessarily held at
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COLONIAL SECRETARIES
FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
Lieut.-Col. George Alexander Malcolm, CB
26. 6.1843
(a) COLONIAL TREASURERS
Frederick William Adolphus BRUCE (GCB)
7. 5.1844
1842
E. ELMSLIE
Lieut.-Col. William CAINE
(also Auditor General) William Thomas MERCER (also Auditor General)
John Gardiner AUSTIN
23. 6.1846
13. 4.1854
7. 5.1868
(also Auditor General)
William Henry MARSH, CMG (KCMG)
24. 2.1879
(also Auditor General)
Frederick STEWART, LL.D
8.10.1887
(also Auditor General)
Francis FLEMING, CMG (KCMG)
George Thomas Michael O'BRIEN, CMG (KCMG)
* James Haldane Stewart LOCKHART, CMG, LL.D (KCMG)
17. 1.1890
*
11. 3.1892
26. 3.1895
* Sir Francis Henry MAY, KCMG, LL.D (GCMG)
23. 4.1902
* Thomas Sercombe SMITH
Warren Delabere BARNES
7. 6.1911
* Alexander MacDonald THOMSON
Sir Claud SEVERN, KBE, CMG, LL.D
2. 2.1912
Sir Wilfred Thomas SOUTHORN, KBE, CMG
1. 5.1926
* Edmund Brinsley TEESDALE, CMG, MC
* Norman Lockhart SMITH, CMG
Franklin Charles GIMSON (KCMG)
* David Mercer MACDOUGALL, CMG
(Chief Civil Affairs Officer 7.9.1945) John Fearns NICOLL, CMG (KCMG) Robert Brown BLACK, CMG, OBE (GCMG)
Edgeworth Beresford DAVID, CMG (KBE) Claude Bramall BURGESS, CMG, OBE
Sir Michael David Irving GASS, KCMG
Sir Hugh Selby NORMAN-WALKER, KCMG, OBE
Denys Tudor Emil ROBERTS, CRO, RE
An asterisk denotes an officer who served in Hong Kong as a member of the Cadet/Administrative Service.
26.11.1936
7.12.1941
1. 5.1946
16. 5.1949
Charles Edward STEWART
Robert Montgomery MARTIN
William Thomas MERCER
Robert RIENAECKER
Frederick Henry Alexander FORTH
* Cecil Clementi SMITH (GCMG, PC)
(also Registrar General 1864/78)
* James RUSSELL (Kt. CMG)
(also Registrar General 1881/83) Alfred LISTER
(also Postmaster General 1875/90)
* Norman Gilbert MITCHELL-INNES
* Charles McIlvaine MESSER, OBE
(also Assessor of Rates 1921/31) Edwin TAYLOR, CMG
(also Assessor of Rates 1931/37)
(b) FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
Sydney CAINE (KCMG)
1843
7. 5.1844 19.10.1847
13. 4.1854
1857
16. 3.1871
30.10.1879
19. 4.1883
1. 1.1891
1.12.1896
26. 7.1898 11.12.1918
28. 6.1931
16. 7.1937
13. 2.1952
* Henry Robert BUTTERS
14. 4.1955
24. 1.1958
11. 3.1963
2. 9.1965
28. 3.1969
24. 9. A73
Sir Charles Geoffrey Shield FOLLOWS, CMG
(Chief Financial Adviser 8.10.1945)
* Arthur Grenfell CLARKE, CMG
* Sir John James COWPERTHWAITE, KBE, CMG
Charles Mirip (ADDON-CAKE, CAIS
1. 1.1940
1. 5.1946
12. 2.1952
17. 4.1961
1.7.1971
In 1937 the post of Colonial Treasurer was separated into two: Financial Secretary and Accountant General.
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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
(a) ASSISTANT COLONIAL SECRETARIES
* James Haldane Stewart LOCKHART (KCMG)
6. 8.1883
* Francis Henry MAY (GCMG)
* John Gerard BUCKLE
* Henry Hessy Johnston GOMPERTZ (Kt.)
* Cecil CLEMENTI (GCMG)
* Arthur George Murchison FLETCHER, CMG, CBE,
(KCMG)
* David William TRATMAN, CMG
(b) PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT COLONIAL
SECRETARIES
* David William TRATMAN, CMG
* Robert Andrew Dermot FORREST
* Brian Charles Keith HAWKINS (CMG, OBE) *Thomas MEGARRY
1. 1.1891
1897
1. 1.1900
29.10.1907
28. 8.1913
19.11.1926
1930
1. 1.1936
16. 4.1937
12.11.1937
1. 5.1946
* Patrick Cardinall Mason SEDGWICK (CMG)
23. 5.1946
* Kenneth Myer Arthur BARNETT, ED (OBE)
2. 4.1947
* Claude Bramall BURGESS (CMG, OBE)
(c) DEPUTY COLONIAL SECRETARIES
* Kenneth Myer Arthur BARNETT, ED (OBE)
* Claude Bramall BURGESS, OBE (CMG)
* Kenneth Myer Arthur BARNETT, ED (OBE)
*Harold Giles RICHARDS, OBE
* Claude Bramall BURGESS, OBE (CMG)
* Richard John Clyde HowES, MBE
* Claude Bramall BURGESS, OBE (CMG)
* David Whinfield Barclay BARON (OBE)
* Claude Bramall BURGESS, OBE (CMG)
* David Whinfield Barclay BARON (OBE)
* Claude Bramall BURGESS, OBE (CMG)
1. 4.1948
8. 3.1949
11.11.1950
1. 8.1951
1. 9.1953
25. 2.1955
17. 1.1956
26. 6.1956
13.10.1956
29. 4.1957
28.10.1957
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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
(c) DEPUTY COLONIAL SECRETARIES-Contd.
* Edmund Brinsley TEESDALE, MC (CMG)
* David Clive Crosbie TRENCH, MC (GCMG) * Edmund Brinsley TEESDALE, MC (CMG)
* David Clive Crosbie TRENCH, MC (GCMG)
* Edmund Brinsley TEESDALE, MC (CMG)
* Geoffrey Cadzow HAMILTON (CBE)
* Edmund Brinsley TEESDALE, MC (CMG)
* Geoffrey Cadzow HAMILTON (CBE)
* Edmund Brinsley TEESDALE, MC (CMG)
* Alastair TODD
*Geoffrey Cadzow HAMILTON (CBE)
* Alastair Todd
*
Geoffrey Cadzow HAMILTON (CBE)
*John Philip ASERAPPA
* Geoffrey Cadzow HAMILTON, CBE
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
12.12.1957 27. 1.1959
21.12.1959
16. 2.1960 19.10.1960
29. 3.1961 17.10.1961
29. 5.1962 27.12.1962
4. 3.1963
16. 3.1964
29. 3.1965
4. 9.1965
24. 6.1966
26.4.1967
23. 1.1969
(Note: From 1895 to 1949 the Assistant/Principal Assistant/Deputy Colonial Secretary
was also clerk of Councils.)
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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
POLITICAL ADVISERS
Clifford Bertram Bruce HEATHCOTE-SMITH (CBE)
8. 8.1947
Geoffrey William ALDINGTON, OBE (KBE, CMG) Peter Gerald Fox DALTON (CMG)
21. 9.1950
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
(a) ASSISTANT FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
* Patrick Cardinall Mason SEDGWICK (CMG)
* Trevor Victor Norman FORTESCUE
1. 5.1946
20. 5.1946
23.9.1953
* Arthur Grenfell CLARKE (CMG)
Richard Thomas Davenport LEDWARD (CMG) Crawford Murray MACLEHOSE, MBE (CMG)
15. 6.1956
(b) DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
25. 1.1947
19. 5.1959
* Arthur Grenfell CLARKE (CMG)
1. 4.1947
Edward Gervase WILLAN, CMG
15. 6.1962
Christopher George Frederick Frampton MELMOTH (CMG) 15. 5.1948
Thomas Anthony Keith ELLIOTT, CMG
Arthur Frederick MADDOCKS
6. 6.1965
* Arthur Grenfell CLARKE (CMG)
19. 6.1968
* Kenneth Myer Arthur BARNETT, ED (OBE)
22.11.1948
3. 4.1949
A.E. DONALD
Dr. D.C. WILSON
R. J.T. MCLARN CME
2.3.7v
* Christopher George Frederick Frampton MELMOTH (CMG) 24.10.1949 *Robert Marshall HETHERINGTON, DFC
23. 3.1951
* John James COWPERTHWAITE (KBE, CMG)
7. 4.1952
* Christopher George Frederick Frampton MELMOTH (CMG) 24. 4.1953
14. 1.1955
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* John James COWPERTHWAITE (KBE, CMG)
* Robert Marshall HETHERINGTON, DFC
(c) DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
(FINANCE)
* Robert Marshall HETHERINGTON, DFC
* David Clive Crosbie TRENCH, MC (GCMG)
* John James COWPERTHWAITE (KBE, CMG)
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
* Geoffrey Marsh TINGLE
2. 5.1955
3. 6.1955
30. 1.1956
5.11.1956
21. 3.1957
27. 2.1959
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
(d) DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
* Ernest Irfon LEE
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
* Ernest Irfon LEE
4. 3.1960
3. 9.1960
17. 4.1962
5.12.1962
20. 6.1963
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(d) DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARIES—Contd.
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
DEPUTY ECONOMIC SECRETARIES
(a) ASSISTANT SECRETARY (ECONOMIC)
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
(b) ECONOMIC SECRETARY William RAMSAY MAIN
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
28.10.1963
* James Neil HENDERSON
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
* James Neil HENDERSON
30. 8.1964
25.11.1964
19. 3.1965
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
4.12.1965
* James Neil HENDERSON
2. 2.1966
*LI Fook-kow
16. 2.1967
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM
28. 2.1968
*LI Fook-kow
31. 7.1968
* Charles Philip HADDON-CAVE
6. 1.1969
* Robert Marshall HETHERINGTON, DFC
* John James COWPERTHWAITE (KBE, CMG)
* Selwyn Engene ALLEYNE
* Charles Philip HADDON-CAVE
19. 6.1969
* John James COWPERTHWAITE (KBE, CMG)
10. 8.1969
(c) DEPUTY FINANCIAL SECRETARIES
(ECONOMIC)
* Dermont Campbell BARTY, OBE (CBE)
(d) DEPUTY ECONOMIC SECRETARIES
* Dermont Campbell BARTY, OBE (CBE)
* John James COWPERTHWAITE, OBE (KBE, CMG)
* Terence Dare SORBY
* Jack CATER, MBE
* Robert Marshall HETHERINGTON, DFC
* Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM