Laurence Guillemard
Laurence Guillemard | |
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18th Governor of the Straits Settlements | |
In office 17 February 1920 – 3 June 1927 | |
Monarch | George V |
Preceded by | Sir Arthur Young |
Succeeded by | Sir Hugh Clifford |
Personal details | |
Born | 7 June 1862 Dublin, United Kingdom |
Died | 13 December 1951 London, England[1] | (aged 89)
Spouse |
Lady Ella Guillemard
(m. 1902; died 1940) |
Parent |
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Education | Charterhouse School |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Colonial Administrator |
Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard GCMG KCB (7 June 1862 – 13 December 1951) was a British civil servant who served as high commissioner in Malaya when it was under the British Empire.
Early life
[edit]Guillemard was the only son of Rev. William Guillemard. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2][4]
Career
[edit]Guillemard entered the civil service in 1886[5] and joined the Treasury in 1888[6] where he was a Private Secretary to both Chancellors of the Exchequer, Sir William Harcourt and Sir Michael Hicks Beach between 1892 and 1902.[2] In May 1902, he was appointed Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue and Chairman of the Board of Customs in 1908.[2]
He was appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States in 1920[7] and retired from the civil service in 1927.[8] In 1925 he was the target of an assassination plot by anarchist Wong Sau Ying.[9]
Awards and honours
[edit]Guillemard was invested as a Companion of Order of the Bath (CB) in 1905,[10] Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1910,[11] and a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1923.[12] He was later awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in the 1927 New Year Honours.[13]
Personal life
[edit]He married in 1902, Ella Walker (1881-1940), daughter of Thomas Spencer Walker. She predeceased him.
Legacy
[edit]The Guillemard Bridge in Kelantan[14] and the Guillemard Reservoir [15] in Penang are named after him.
References
[edit]- ^ "Laurence Nunns Guillemard". Singapore Infopedia. 23 April 2014 – via eresources.nlb.gov.sg.
- ^ a b c d "The New Governor". The Straits Times. 10 October 1919. p. 10.
- ^ "Guillemard, Lady Ella (d 1940)". Archived from the original on 20 October 2012.
- ^ "Laurence Nunns Guillemard". nlb.gov.sg. 23 April 2014.
- ^ "No. 25564". The London Gazette. 2 March 1886. p. 1034.
- ^ "No. 25821". The London Gazette. 29 May 1888. p. 3013.
- ^ "No. 31642". The London Gazette. 14 November 1919. p. 13800.
- ^ "Sir Laurence Guillemard". The Straits Times. 18 December 1951. p. 8.
- ^ Harper, Tim (2021). Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. Harvard University Press. p. 513. ISBN 978-0-674-72461-7.
- ^ "No. 11739". The London Gazette. 4 July 1905. p. 655.
- ^ "No. 28388". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 June 1910. p. 4476.
- ^ "No. 32830". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1923. p. 3945.
- ^ "No. 33235". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1926. p. 4.
- ^ "Guillemard Bridge". Machang District Council. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020.
- ^ "Heritage Water Works". Penang Heritage Trust. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
External links
[edit]- Listing of Photographic Collection for 'Guillemard, Sir Laurence Nunns (1862-1951) Knight, colonial governor' held at Cambridge University (Janus)
- GUILLEMARD, Sir Laurence Nunns, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
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