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Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas GCMG KStJ OBE (10 October 1879 – 15 January 1962) was a British colonial administrator most notable for his role as Governor of the Straits Settlements in Singapore.
Shenton Thomas Whitelegge Thomas (Sir) (b. 10 October 1879, London, England–d. 15 January 1962, London, England), more popularly known as Sir Shenton Thomas, was the last governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States (1934–1946).1 He succeeded Sir Cecil Clementi, who had ...
16 de mar. de 2012 · Governor Shenton Thomas and C-in-C Arthur Percival took the view that putting the ‘impregnable fortress’ of Singapore into a defensible state would be bad for civilian morale. An extraordinary imperial hubris seems to have gripped the upper echelons of British leadership in the Far East.
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Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas GCMG KStJ OBE (10 October 1879 – 15 January 1962) was a British colonial administrator most notable for his role as Governor of the Straits Settlements in Singapore.
Shenton Thomas was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, from 1890 to 1898 and at Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1901, where he held a Sedgwick exhibition and graduated in classics, with second-class honours, in 1901. He became an honorary fellow of the college in 1935.
She was escorted by the Governor of Singapore, Sir Shenton Thomas, and his wife, to whom Elizabeth had sent medicines while she was interned in Changi. That act of kindness had not been forgotten. She was given the opportunity by the returning British to seek retribution against her torturers.
LONDON; Jan. 17 (AP)--Sir Shenton Thomas. Governor of the pre-war Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States when Singapore fell to the Japanese in Word War II, died...
