Laurence Guillemard

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Sir Laurence Guillemard

Sir Laurence Guillemard Nunn (* 7. June 1862 in London , † 13 December 1951 ibid) was a British civil servant and Governor and High Commissioner (high commissioner) in British possessions in Malaya at the time of the British colonial empire .

Life

Guillemard received his education at the Charterhouse School in Godalming , Surrey, and at Trinity College , Cambridge . He then worked in the public service from 1886, including (from 1892 to 1902) as Secretary of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Harcourt and later Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St. Aldwyn . Appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue in May 1902, where he had worked since 1888. He ended his career in Great Britain in 1919 when an offer was made to him to take over the post of Governor of Straits Settlements and thus also of the High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States in Singapore . He took office in February 1920. He was the only governor of the Straits Settlements who had no prior experience in running a colony.

While in office in Singapore, he campaigned for the expansion of King Edward VII Medical School into the College of Medicine Building in 1921, which became the Medical Faculty of the University of Malaya in 1949 and the National University of Singapore in 1982 . He also opened the new Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in March 1921 . He also initiated the construction of a 1 km long dam between Singapore and Johore on the Malaysian peninsula, the Johor – Singapore Causeway , which was completed in 1923 and has since connected Singapore with the mainland.

On June 3, 1927, Guillemard was replaced in his office by Hugh Clifford and ended his civil service career in the same year.

Guillemard was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1910 and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1923 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Laurence Nunns Guillemard , in: Infopedia, server of the National Library Board, Singapore Government, online at: eresources.nlb.gov.sg / ...
  2. ↑ The new governor , in: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser , February 3, 1920, p. 6., digitized by NewspaperSG, online at: eresources.nlb.gov.sg /.../ singfreepressb ...
  3. ^ The new governor , in: The Straits Times, October 10, 1919, p. 10, digitized by NewspaperSG, online at: eresources.nlb.gov.sg /.../ straitstimes ...
personal data
SURNAME Guillemard, Laurence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillemard, Sir Laurence Nunns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Civil Servant, Governor of the Straits Settlements and Administrator of Singapore
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1951
Place of death London