Singapore (01)

1819-1959 British rule


1819-1946

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1819 6 october UK protectorate
1826 UK Straits Settlements colony Robert Fullerton
1830 12 november Robert Ibbetson
1833 Kenneth Murchinson
1837 Samuel George Bonham
1843 William J. Butterworth
1855 Edmund Augustus Blundell
1859 Orfeur Cavenagh
1867 1 april UK Colony Harry St. George Ord
1873 4 november Andrew Clarke
1875 may William Francis Drummond Jervois
1877 Edward Archibald Harbord Anson (I)
1877 july William Cleaver Francis Robinson
1878 december Edward Archibald Harbord Anson (II)
1880 17 march Sir Frederic Aloysius Weld
1887 Cecil Clementi Smith
1893 William Edward Maxwell
1894 Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell
1899 James Alexander Swettenham
1901 5 november Sir Frank Athelstone Swettenham
1904 16 april Sir John Anderson
1911 2 september Sir Arthur Henderson Young
1920 17 february Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard
1927 3 june Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
1930 5 february Sir Cecil Clementi
1934 9 november Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas (I)
1942 15 february Japan Occupation Shigeo Odate
1943 19 july Kanichi Naito
1945 12 september UK Colony of Straits Settlements Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas (I)

1946-1959

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1946 1 april UK Colony Sir Franklin Charles Gimson
1952 15 november Sir John Fearns Nicoll
1954 22 december Sir Robert Brown Black
1955 6 april David Saul Marshall
1956 8 june Tun Lim Yew Hock
1957 9 december Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode


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