Bechuanaland Colonial Administrators c.1884-c.1965by Place, Date, Name, and Titleby Neil Parsons & Glorious Gumbo provisional version 16 November 2002 |
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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.
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1884-1885 | J.M. Wright | Assistant Commissioner, Mafeking |
| 1887-1892 | Rev. John Smith Moffat (1835-1918) | Assistant (Resident) Commissioner for the Bechuanaland Protectorate (including Matabeleland to 1890) north of the Molopo, based at Mafeking till c.1890 then roving commission |
| 1890-1892 | W.H. Surmon | 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 |
| 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 (1851-1917) | AC for Northern Protectorate, & RM 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1892-1900? | W.H. Surmon | AC & RM for Southern Protectorate, Gaberones |
| 1900?-1923 | Jules E. Ellenberger (1871-1973) | 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 195? | David M. Robinson | Assistant District Officer (appt. 28/5/54) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1892-1900? | W.H. Surmon | AC & RM for Southern Protectorate |
| 1897-1900 | Jules E. Ellenberger (1871-1973/4) | 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) |
| 1962-1964(-1970?) | Percivale Cardross Grant | DC (appt. 5/12/49) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 1934 | H. Beeching | Acting Assistant DC |
| 1936 | William Hunter Jackson Cairns, BA | Asst. DC on probation (appt. 1/1/36) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1904 | Arnold Weinholt Hodson | ? |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 1958-1961 | Ernest H. Midgely | (appt. 17/6/53) |
| 1962-1964 | Brian A.F. Read | (appt. 5/5/59) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 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, BA | Asst. DC (appt. 1/1/38) |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1904-1907 | Rowland Mortimer Daniel (1873-1957) | Assistant Resident Magistrate |
| 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 Sullivan | DC (off to Nigeria) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Note: The RESIDENT COMMISSIONER was the equivalent to a Lieutenant-Governor in other British colonies, because the High Commissioner had the status of a full Governor (and a Governor-General after 1910).
| 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 (1857-1948) | Acting Administrator & Chief Magistrate BB |
| 1892 | Francis James Newton (1857-1948) | 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 (1857-1948) | 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 (1877-1968) | 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 1946-1950(“Hlangabeza”) | |
| 1953-1955 | William Forbes Mackenzie (1907-) | RC, ex Deputy RC & GS Swaziland 1949-1950 |
| 1955-1959 | Martin Osterfield Wray (1912-) | RC |
| 1959-1964 | Robert Peter Fawcus | RC (Acting 1957) |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1889-1892 | Francis James Newton (1857-1948) | Colonial Secretary & Receiver-General 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 (again) | Chief Secretary |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| -1885 | John Anchitel Ashburnham | Clerk to Administrator & Deputy 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) |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| -1890 | ? | Local Auditor, Vryburg |
| 1957 | J.H. Belderson | Principal Auditor, Audit Dept. |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1928-1935 | Henry James Edward Dumbrell (1885-) | Inspector of Education, Bechuanaland & Swaziland |
| 1936-1945 | Henry James Edward Dumbrell (1885-) | Director of Education, Bechuanaland Protectorate |
| 1945-1952 | Jowitt | Director of Education |
| 1947-1951 | James Guthrie Gardiner (1907-1963) | Education Officer |
| 1951-1952 | James Guthrie Gardiner (1907-1963) | Principal Education Officer |
| 1951-1955 | Charles John Hunter (1914-1964/5) | Education Officer, ex-Johannesburg Star newspaper |
| 1952-1962 | James Guthrie Gardiner (1907-1963) | Director of Education |
| 1957 | G.P.E. Dixon | Education Officer, Educ Dept |
| -1955 | Charles John Hunter (1914-1964/5) | Deputy Director, Educ Dept |
| 1957 | J.F. Leech | Welfare Officer, Educ Dept |
| 1962-1964/5 | Charles John Hunter (1914-1964/5) | Director of Education |
| 1964-1971 | John William Blake (1911-) | Principal & Vice-Chancellor, University of Basutoland, Bechuanaland & Swaziland |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| -1886 | ? | Receiver & Accountant-General, Vryburg |
| -1888 | ? | Receiver-General, Vryburg |
| 1889-1892 | Francis James Newton (1857-1948) | Receiver-General, Vryburg |
| -1890 | ? | Tender Board, Vryburg |
| -1891 | ? | Receiver-General, Vryburg |
| -1954 | C.R. Latimer (1911-) | Acting Secretary for Finance |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| -194 | James Wayland | ex-Uganda |
| 1954-1957+ | Richard Bradford McConnell (1903-) | Director of Geological Surveys, ex-Uganda |
| 1957 | Colin Boocock &c, | Geologists, Geol Surv Dept |
| 1957 | O.J. Van Straten | Petrologist, Geol Surv Dept |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| -1885 | ? | Registrar of Deeds, Vryburg |
| -1887 | ? | Surveyor-General, Vryburg |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| -1892 | ? | Postmaster-General, Vryburg |
| 1957 | L.G. Duhy | Senior Postmaster, Posts & Telegraphs Dept |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1891-? | ? | Officer in Charge of Stores, Vryburg |
| 1957 | M.F.H. Lemon | Controller of Stores |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1950-1957+ | George Anthony Ley Rutledge (1913-) | Treasurer, ex-Tanganyika & Basutoland |
| 1957 | A.J. Beeby | Assistant Treasurer, Treasury Dept |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1951-1957+ | John Edward Riley Roe | Director of Veterinary Services. ex-Nigeria |
| 1955-1957+ | Kenneth Unsworth (1919-) | Deputy Director, Vet Serv Dept, ex-West Africa |
| 1957 | J. Falconer &c. | Veterinary Officers, Vet Serv Dept |
| 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. |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1884-1885 | Frederick Carrington (1844-1913) | Major? (2nd Mounted Rifles), Commander BFF |
| 1884-1885 | R.E.R. Martin | (6th Dragoons) |
| 1884-1885 | Hamilton John Goold-Adams(1858-1920) | (Royal Scots Fusiliers) |
| 1884-1885 | P.L. McKie | (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders) |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1885-1993 | Frederick Carrington (1844-1913) | Colonel, Commander BBP |
| -1885 | R.E.R. Martin | Major BBP |
| 1885-1893 | Hamilton John Goold-Adams(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 Goold-Adams(1858-1920 | Major, Commander BBP |
| c.1894 | Gosling | Capt. BBP |
| 1894-95 | Fuller | Capt. BBP with Ghanzi trekkers |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | Nchindo (Sergeant) | transferred from B.P. to Swaziland |
| 1955-1957+ | Reginald Montague Williams (1914) | Deputy Commissioner of Police, ex-Basutoland |
| 1956-1966+ | James Thomas Atherstone Bailey (1912-) | Commissioner of Police, ex-Southern Rhodesia 1937-1942 & Gold Coast 1942-1956 |
| 1957 | C.A. Webb | Assistant Superintendent, Police |
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 Governor-General 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.
| 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 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 1896) (1824-1897) | Governor of CC & HC for SA |
| 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 (1853-1934) | GG & HC |
| 1920-1923 | Arthur Duke of Connaught (aka Prins Artur von Teck) (1883-1938) | GG & HC |
| 1924-1930 | Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge (Earl of Athlone) (1874-1957) | GG & HC |
| 1930/1?-1935 | Herbert Stanley | 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 (1876-1952) | HC |
| 1940-1941 | Edward John Harding (1880-1954) | HC |
| 1941-1943 | William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore (Lord Harlech) (1885-1954) HC | |
| 1944-1951 | Evelyn Baring (later Lord Howick) | HC |
| 1951-1955 | John Helier Le Rougetel (1895-1975) | HC |
| 1955-1958 | Percivale Liesching (1895-1973) | HC in Union & HC for BBS, previously PUS in CRO 1949-1955 |
| -1956 | Henry Sydney Herbert Stanley (1920-) | HC to SA, Sept. 1956- |
| 1960? | John Maud (later Lord Redcliffe-Maud) | HC |
| 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 1929-1947, then to CRO |
| 1950-1953 | Roland Evelyn Turnbull (1905-) | Chief 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1937-1948 | Walter Clarence Huggard (d.1957) | Judge of HCT & Legal Advisor to HC |
| 1947-1958 | Arthur Clement Thompson (1896-) | Attorney-General & Legal Adviser to HC |
| 1948?-1951 | Walter Harragin (1890-1966) | ditto |
| 1951-1952 | ditto | Chief Justice HCT |
| 1952-1956 | Harold Curwen Willan (1896-1971) | 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 (1887-1960) | 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 |
| 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 (1885-1951) | Medical Advisor to HC |
| 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 1938-July 1946 |
| 1947-1956 | John Henry Belderson (1903-) | Principal Auditor HCT |
| 1939-1944 | Ben Cockram (1903-) | Political Secretary to HC, June 1939-Oct.1944 |
| 1940-1944 | Alan Geoffrey Tunstal Chaplin (1908-) | Representative of HCT in (to Government of) the Union of South 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, US-educated, March 1950-May 1953, next back to CRO |
| 1950-1953 | Arthur Willoughby Walters (1900-) | Assistant Chief Secretary |
| 1951 | John Crawford Martin (1914-1964) | 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 |
| ?1951-1953 | Michael James Fairlie (1920-) | Private Secretary to HC, ex-BP, then 1955-55 DC Swaziland, CRO 1955-1958 |
| 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, ex-Zanzibar |
| 1953-1954 | Sidney James McNally (1902-) | Executive Officer HCO, March 1953-May 1954 |
| 1953-1956 | William Geoffrey Smith (1916-) | UKSA 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. 1954-Sept 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 (1928-) | 2nd 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), 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 (1886-1968) | 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 |
| 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, May-June |
| 1947-1948 | Thomas Fitzgerald (1879-1959) | Chairman HCT Commission into Salaries & Conditions of Service in Public Service |
| 1949 | Percivale Liesching (1895-) | Special mission to SA & Southern Rhodesia as PUSSCR |
| 1951-1952 | Peter Brigstocke Lewis (1923-) | touring HCT on behalf of CRO, Dec. 1951-Feb.1952 |
| 1954 | John Elwyn Sedgwick Clayden (1922-) | with Symon Mission, April-June |
| 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 (1896-) | Report on HCT public service |
| 1964 | Thomas Monier Skinner (1913-) | Salaries Commissioner HCT |
| 1965 | Robert Stanley Porter (1924-) | Chairman HCT Economic Survey Mission |
| 1965 | Frank Denry Clement Williams (1913-) | Member of HCT Economic Survey Mission |
| 1966 | Stevens, Roger Bentham (1906-) | Advisor on development of University of Basutoland, Bechuanaland & Swaziland |
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.
| 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 |
| 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-) (again) | SS for DA (Nov.) |
| 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 Marquis of Salisbury (Oct.) | SS for DA |
| 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 Earl of Home | SS for CR (April) |
| 1962-1964 | Duncan Sandys (aka Lord Duncan-Sandys) | SS for Colonies |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1925-1927 | George Villiers, 6th Earl Clarendon | PUSS for Dominion Affairs |
| 1927-1929 | Simon Fraser, 4th Baron Lovat | PUSS for DA |
| 1929 | Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl Plymouth | PUSS for DA (Jan.) |
| 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 Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord Landsdowne) | Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1871-189? | Robert George Wyndham Herbert (1831-1905) | PUS for the Colonies |
| 1992-189? | Robert Henry Meade (1835-1898) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 (1835-1898) | 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 |
| 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 |
| Dates | Name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| -1950 | Humphrey Leslie Malcolm Oxley (1956-) | Senior Legal Assistant to CO & CRO |
| 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 (1859-1947) | CO Clerk |
| 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 1911-1929 |
| 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 |
| 1947-? | John Percival Gibson (1898-) | Assistant Secretary CRO, ex-India Office 1921-1947 (Assistant Secretary 1941-1947) |
| 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 1921-1947, 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 | Peter Brigstocke Lewis (1923-) | Temporary Assistant Principal then 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 (1914-1964) | Secretary CRO, ex HCO & 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 (1928-) | CRO |
| 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 Sub-Dept. 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 |
| 1959-1960 | Noel V. Redman | seconded for Economic Development training to CRO from BP/ HCO (appt. 28/5/54) |
| Joseph John Saville Garner (1908-) | see his book The Commonwealth Office |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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