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Sir John Anderson GCMG KCB

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Subject :Sir John Anderson GCMG KCB
Published By : British Government Official Photo 
Location : Singapore
Estimated Year : 1910
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Wikipedia/Ipoh Remembered (Photo 2)
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Sir John Anderson GCMG KCB JP (23 June 1858 – 24 March 1918) was a Scottish colonial administrator, who was once the Governor of Ceylon and Governor of Straits Settlements.

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland he graduated MA at Aberdeen University, gaining a first class in mathematics and being awarded the gold medal of the year. Two years later, he entered the Colonial Office as a second class clerk. From that simple atart he held a wide range of ever increasin status until, in 1904, he was appointed as Governor of Straits Settlements where he served till 1911.

1916, he was appointed as Governor of Ceylon. In Ceylon he played a major role in settling many problems and riots that started in 1915 and suppressed harshly by the British.

He suddenly fell ill at Queens Cottage, Nuwara Eliya in 1918 and died on 24 March 1918. It is recorded that his Maha Mudaliyar, Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, who happened to be at his bedside, wrote:

"Sir John was the first Governor of this country to die while his term of office in Sri Lanka and was as yet unfinished, and every circumstances combined to make his death a matter of genuine and universal grief, so that it seemed almost a personal loss. May our people of Lanka take an example from this Great and Good man!"

The first image above is the official image of Sir John Anderson when he was the Governor of Straits Settlements. The second image is of his daughter. They are taken from the 1906 Book Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya.

The third image is donated by Ipoh Remembered who told us that:

"This is a print of the original in the National Portrait Gallery.

Yes, the Miss Anderson in the photograph is his daughter. He had two: the younger was Catherine and the older, named for her mother, was Georgina.

The older Georgina was … never in good health."

The above history of John Anderson is modified from Wikipedia.

 

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