CEYLON
See also ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY CEYLON 1871 - 1945
BRITISH COLONY OF CEYLON
The coastal regions of Ceylon, till then under Dutch rule, were conquered by the British in 1795. The interior, dominated by the last independent traditional state, the Kingdom of Kandy, was annexed in 1815. Originally a part of British India, the British possessions in Ceylon became a separate Crown Colony in 1802. ____________________________________________________________________________BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS
Governors 1865 - 1872 Hercules George Robert Robinson 1824 - 1897 1872 Henry Turner Irving* 1833 - 1923 1872 - 1877 William Henry Gregory 1817 - 1892 1877 - 1883 James Robert Longden 1827 - 1891 1883 John Douglas* 1883 - 1890 Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon 1829 - 1912 1890 - 1895 Arthur Elibank Havelock 1844 - 1908 1895 - 1896 Edward Noël Walker* 1842 - 1908 1896 - 1903 Joseph West Ridgeway 1844 - 1930 1903 Edward F. im Thurn* 1852 - 1932 1903 - 1907 Sir Henry Arthur Blake 1840 - 1918 1907 Hugh Charles Clifford 1866 - 1941 1907 - 1913 Henry Edward McCallum 1852 - 1919 1913 Reginald Edward Stubbs* 1876 - 1947 1913 - 1915 Robert Chalmers 1858 - 1938 1915 - 1916 Reginald Edward Stubbs* (2x) 1916 - 1918 Sir John Anderson 1858 - 1918 1918 Reginald Edward Stubbs* (3x) 1918 - 1925 Sir William Henry Manning 1863 - 1932 1925 Cecil Clementi* 1875 - 1947 1925 Edward Bruce Alexander* 1872 - 1955 1925 - 1928 Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (2x) 1928 - 1931 Sir Herbert James Stanley 1872 - 1953 1931 Bernard Henry Bourdillon* 1883 - 1948 1931 - 1933 Sir Graeme Thomson 1875 - 1933 1933 Francis Graeme Tyrrell* 1933 - 1937 Reginald Edward Stubbs (4x) 1937 Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn* 1883 - 1953 1937 - 1944 Sir Andrew Caldecott 1884 - 1951 1944 - 1948 Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore 1887 - 1964
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