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      • 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.
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  2. Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, GCMG, GBE (5 March 1866 – 18 December 1941) was a British colonial administrator. Clifford was born in Roehampton, London, the sixth of the eight children of Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford and his wife Josephine Elizabeth, née Anstice; his grandfather was Hugh Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh. [1]

  3. 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

  4. In 1887 Hugh Clifford was given his first real opportunity to show his qualities as a colonial officer when he was asked to go to Pahang on the eastern coast of the Malay peninsula to prepare the ground for a British resident.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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