John Sturrock (colonial administrator)
Sir John Christian Ramsay Sturrock (1875–1937) was a British colonial administrator. He served as Resident Commissioner in Basutoland, from 1926 to 1935.[1][2][3]
Life
He was the second son of John Sturrock, C.I.E., and was educated at Charterhouse School. He graduated B.A. at Balliol College, Oxford in 1898, M.A. in 1902.[1][4]
Sturrock acted as tutor to Daudi Cwa II of Buganda, a government appointment, and accompanied him to England in 1913.[2][5][6] He was appointed a District Commissioner in Uganda in 1914; and Provincial Commissioner in 1922.[1] In the early 1920s he helped set up dispensaries in Uganda.[7]
Described as "progressive" by Gill, Sturrock began a programme of reform in what is now Lesotho in the 1920s.[8] He made a good impression on Margery Perham, a visitor to Basutoland around the end of 1929.[9] He took the view that indirect rule had not been applied effectively; and initiated judicial and administrative reform measures that were applied over a period of a dozen years.[10]
In 1935, Sturrock was replaced as Resident Commissioner by Edmund Charles Smith Richards.[3]
Family
Sturrock married on 19 April 1917 Blanche Elizabeth Walker, third daughter of Daniel Houston Walker of Middlesbrough.[4]
Notes
- 1 2 3 Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Dean & Son, limited. 1931. p. 2121.
- 1 2 Pirouet, M. Louise. "Chwa, Daudi". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75909. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 Henige, David P. (1970). Colonial Governors. p. 92.
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- ↑ Jr., Professor Henry Louis Gates,; Akyeampong, Professor Emmanuel; Niven, Mr. Steven J. (2012-02-02). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 95. ISBN 9780195382075. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ↑ Green, Jeffrey (2012-11-12). Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain 1901-1914. Routledge. p. 49. ISBN 9781136318306. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ↑ G. J. Keane, H. B. Thomas and Robert Scott, The Progress of Uganda, Journal of the Royal African Society Vol. 35, No. 140 (Jul., 1936), pp. 311–319, at p. 317. Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society. JSTOR 717338
- ↑ Gill, Stephen J. (1993). A short history of Lesotho from the late stone age until the 1993 elections. Morija Museum & Archives. p. 183.
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(help) - ↑ Bull, Mary; Smith, Alison (2013-12-02). Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa. Taylor & Francis. p. 68. ISBN 9781317727576. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ↑ Machobane, L B; Karschay, Stephan (1990-08-06). Government and Change in Lesotho, 1800–1966: A Study of Political Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 178, 180. ISBN 9781349209064. Retrieved 2 November 2017.