Herbert Ralph Hone

Sir (Herbert) Ralph Hone KMCG KBE MC TD (born May 3, 1896 in Brighton , † November 28, 1992 in London ) was a British officer, most recently in the rank of Major General , Barrister and Governor of British North Borneo .

biography

Hone attended from 1905 to 1913 the Municipary Secondary School in Brighton, at the current successor institution, the Varndean College , the Hone Room is named after his father Herbert Hone, a former mayor of the city.

Military service until 1920

During World War I he served from 1915 in the 18th (County of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) and from 1916 until the end of the war with the British Expeditionary Corps (BEF) in France. There he fought against the German troops in the Battle of Arras and was wounded in the Couillet Valley in March 1918 . He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for an outstanding defense operation. He served in the Munitions Ministry until 1920, was promoted to major in the reserve of the Territorial Army and then entered British colonial service.

Colonial service from 1920 to 1940

During his assistantship he served in Uganda from 1920 , completed his barrister training, graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and was admitted to the Middle Temple Bar Association in 1924 , where he did his internship in the South-East district. This was followed by assignments at the Supreme Court in Zanzibar until 1928, as an attorney for the British Crown ( Crown Counsel ) in Tanganyika until 1932 and in 1933 as an assistant legal advisor for the Dominions Office (rulership) and the Colonial Office (colonial office).

From 1933 to 1936 he was Attorney General in Gibraltar and then worked for three years in Uganda for three years until 1940 .

Military service from 1939 to 1945

While still working as Attorney Generals, he was reactivated for military service during World War II and served in military service from 1939 to 1945. In 1940 he was the commander of the Ugandan Defense Forces (see King's African Rifles ), from 1940 he was first Supreme Legal Advisor for the political division in the Middle East Headquarters , in 1942 he was a liaison officer for the Polish armed forces and from 1942 to 1943 he was the Supreme Political Officer . He then served from 1943 to 1945 as Chief Political Officer in the General Staff of the War Office .

Colonial service after 1945

After the end of the war he became Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Federated Malay States in 1945 and, after its rise in the Malay Union until 1948, Secretary General of the Governor in 1946 . From 1948 to 1949 he was Deputy Commissioner General Southeast Asia before he was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British North Borneo from 1949 to 1954 . Presumably he would have succeeded the Malay Governor General if he had not been divorced - a circumstance that prevented him from participating in the garden festivals at Buckingham Palace even in his function as Governor in North Borneo .

In 1946 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1951 also knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George .

During his subsequent employment as head of the legal department of the Commonwealth Relations Office, which later went up in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , he was retired from the military in 1956, while he continued to serve in the Commonwealth Relations Office until 1961. In 1961 he returned to the Middle Temple Chamber. From 1961 to 1962 he worked as constitutional advisor in Kenya for Richard Austen Butler on Central Africa , and from 1965 to 1966 for the governments of South Arabia and Bermuda .

Hone was the oldest member of the In Deo Fidemus - Loge and also vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth Society . The Hunslet locomotive 40604T "Sir Ralph H. Hone" named after him is in the Sabah Museum today

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ News of old Varndeanians - Major-General Sir Ralph Hone ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 557 kB). 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Sir Herbert Ralph, Major-General (1896-1992) , Generals.dk.
5. ↑ Tom Bingham: The Lives of the Law , Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 3, ISBN 9780199697304
6. ↑ Knights and Dames: HA-HOR at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
7. ↑ HONE, Sir (Herbert) Ralph (1896-1992), Major General (English), Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives, King's College London.
8. ^ Sir Ralph Hone collection: South Arabia , Janus.
9. ↑ Hunslet-built 40604T "Sir Ralph H. Hone"

predecessor	Office	successor
Sir Edward Twining	Governor of North Borneo 1950–1954	Sir Roland Evelyn Turnbull