Hugh Clifford

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford GCMG GBE ( born March 5, 1866 in Roehampton, † December 18, 1941 ) was a British colonial governor.

Biography

Clifford was the great- grandson of Hugh Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh. His father was Sir Henry Hugh Clifford, a Major General in the British Army. From the marriage of his father with Josephine Elizabeth, née Anstice, emerged seven other siblings, among them the later Brigadier General Henry Frederick Hugh Clifford. Hugh Charles Clifford opted for a career in public service, which he knew from 1883 on the Malay Peninsula, where Sir Frederick Weld, a relative Clifford, High Commissioner was. In 1887 he was the only British representative in Pahang.

On April 15, 1896, he married his first wife Minna à Beckett. The marriage later the children Hugh Gilbert Francis, Mary Agnes Philippa and Mary Elizabeth Monica emerged. Also in 1896 he became a resident in Pahang and held this post until 1899. Subsequently, he took over the governorship in North Borneo. During his tenure, until 1901, the administrative Labuan fell within the jurisdiction of the Governor of North Borneo. In 1901 he became a resident of Pahang and in 1903 took over the role as Colonial Secretary in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1907, the year in which his first wife died in Minna, the dislocation followed to the post of Colonial Secretary of Ceylon. In 1909 he was knighted, and on September 24, 1910, he married Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle, born in Bonham. He thus became stepfather of EM Delafield, known as the author later.

From 1912, followed by other governor uses until December 26, 1912 to April 1, 1919 as the Governor of the Gold Coast, after August 8, 1919 to November 13, 1925 in Nigeria, from 1925 to 1927 in Ceylon, and from 1927 to 1929 in the Straits Settlements and high Commissioner for the Malay States. During the governorship of the Gold Coast he was represented by prolonged absence of his deputies William Robertson and later by Alexander Ransford Slater.