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Hugh Clifford may refer to: Hugh Clifford (colonial administrator) (1866–1941), British colonial administrator; Hugh Clifford, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1663–1730), English aristocrat; Hugh Clifford, 3rd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1700–1732), peer; Hugh Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1790–1858), British peer
In popular culture. Honours. Publications. References. External links. Hugh Clifford (colonial administrator) Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, GCMG, GBE (5 March 1866 – 18 December 1941) was a British colonial administrator. Early life.
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (born March 5, 1866, London—died Dec. 18, 1941, Roehampton, London) was a British colonial official and governor, especially associated with Malaya, and a novelist and essayist.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hugh Clifford believed totally in the improving aspect of British rule but like so many colonial rulers was forces to compromise his principles whenever practical politics demanded. Clifford was typical of so many colonial officers in that he was from an impoverished middle class family who in 1883 got him a position in the colonial service ...
take is Sir Hugh Charles Clifford who governed Nigeria between 1919 and 1925. In most studies connected with his tenure, Clifford appears as the unpredictable governor who, after excoriating the West African nationalists for demanding representative government, injected the elective principle into the
Hugh Clifford was one of twelve Englishmen who were successively appointed as Residents to the Protected Malay States between 1874 and 1896, and who fashioned the remarkably effective political amalgam of dejure Malay sultanates
Hugh Clifford has been described as “one of the most unusual colonial governors in British history”. Widely regarded as the “doyen of the colonial service”, Clifford held successive governorships in the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Ceylon, and the Straits Settlements.
