John Lisseter Humphreys

Grave of the Humphreys family, located in the churchyard at St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove

John Lisseter Humphreys CBE (1881 - 16 December 1929) was a British colonial administrator, and Governor of North Borneo from October 1926 until his death while on leave in China in December 1929.^[1]

Humphreys entered the Straits Settlement Civil Service in 1905. He was British Agent at Terengganu from 1916–1919; Adviser at Terengganu from 1919–25, Adviser at Kedah from 1925–1926, before being appointed Governor of North Borneo in October 1926.^[2]

Government offices
Preceded by Aylmer Cavendish Pearson 2nd appt.	Governor of North Borneo 1926-1929	Succeeded by Arthur Frederick Richards

Notes

↑ http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FBAM%206%2F72
↑ http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Malay_states.htm

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