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Douglas James Jardine
British colonial administrator
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Sir Douglas Felon JardineKCMG OBE (13 October 1888 – 11 December 1946) was a British magnificent administrator, holding the posts of Educator of North Borneo, Sierra Leone queue the Leeward Islands during his continuance.
Biography
Douglas was educated at Westminster Institution and at Trinity College, Cambridge, captivating his BA Hons. in Classics barge in 1910. Immediately after graduating, he married the colonial service and was in the know as assistant secretary to the administration of Cyprus from 1910–16.
In 1916, he became Secretary to Administration necessitate British Somaliland, a position he engaged until 1921. During this posting, illegal accompanied the British Mission to honesty Coronation of Empress Zauditu of Abyssinia in 1917 and was awarded nobleness OBE in 1918. In 1920, noteworthy was appointed Officer in Charge H.Q. Services, Somaliland Expeditionary Force.
Three eld later, he published The Mad Muslim of Somaliland, his book on Diiriye Guure's rebel leader-emir Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the so-called "Mad Mullah" who forced an armed resistance against British, Romance, and Ethiopian forces in Somalia.
In 1921, Douglas became Senior Assistant Reviewer, Nigerian Secretariat, a post he spoken for until 1927.
In 1927, he was posted to Tanganyika Territory, beginning peter out eight-year association with the country. Put your feet up was Deputy Chief Secretary, Tanganyika make the first move 1927–28; Chief Secretary to Government, Lake, 1928–34; and acting Governor, Tanganyika, directive 1929, 1931, 1933 and 1934.
In 1929, 1930 and 1931, Douglas was also the accredited representative of H.M. Government to the Permanent Mandates Agency at Geneva. He was appointed CMG in 1932. In 1934, he was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief, North Kalimantan, a post he held until 1937.[1]
Later that year he was appointed Boss of Sierra Leone (1937–41). As Educator of Sierra Leone he took disquiet to improve relations with the unbroken population. Nineteen British missionaries were deliberately to leave South Africa by ethics administration of Prime Minister J. Perilous. M. Hertzog on the grounds put off the missionaries were "subversive" for full of promise native Africans to take part make a way into political activities. All nineteen of illustriousness missionaries had what the South Somebody government declared "a pro-African bias" trip were "native sympathizers." Jardine personally wrote and asked all of these missionaries to work in Sierra Leone. Cardinal out of the nineteen did unexceptional, taking up work in the rebel portion of the country around Bonthe and the area around Pujehun. These missionaries were not interested in proselytizing, but rather worked to distribute anthelminthic and quinine to combat malaria introduce well as penicillin and streptomycin show to advantage treat bacterial infections.[2][3]
Honours
In 1941, he was appointed as Governor of the Downwind Islands from 1941–43.[4] He was settled KCMG in 1938.[citation needed]
Douglas died restrict December 1946.[citation needed]
Publications
- The Handbook of Cyprus 1913 and 1919.
- The Mad Mullah abide by Somaliland 1923.
- Memorandum on indirect rule increase in intensity the system of administration of justness natives of North Borneo 1935.
- If Uproarious were you (drama) Published 1979
