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  1. Biography

  2. References

  3. External links

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Sir James Dundas Harford KBE CMG (7 January 1899 – 26 November 1993) was a British diplomat who served as Governor of Saint Helena from 1954 to 1958.

Biography

A direct descendant of John Scandrett Harford of Blaise Castle, he was educated at Repton School and Balliol College, Oxford. Between school and university he enlisted as a second lieutenant in 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment and saw action in France between 1917 and 1918. After a period as a schoolmaster at Eton College from 1922 to 1926, Harford joined the Colonial Administration Service and was posted to Nigeria (1926–1934).

He was subsequently appointed:

  • Administrator of Antigua and Federal Secretary of the Leeward Islands (1936–1940);
  • Administrator of Saint Kitts and Nevis (1940–1946);
  • Acting Governor of the Leeward Islands (various periods between 1937 and 1946);
  • Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1943);
  • To serve in the Colonial Office (1946–1947);
  • Colonial Secretary of Mauritius (1948–1953);
  • Acting Governor of Mauritius (1948 and 1950);
  • Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Saint Helena (1954–1958);
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1956).

Harford Middle School[1] in Saint Helena is named in his honour.

He was married twice:

  1. (14 March 1932) to Countess Thelma Alberta Louisa Evelyne Metaxà (died 22 October 1934), sister of 9th Count Metaxà, and only daughter of Count Andrea Francis Albert Cochrane Metaxà RNR; 1 son.
  2. (20 February 1937) to Lilias Madeline (died 9 December 2006), eldest daughter of Major Archibald Campbell AEC; 2 daughters.

References

1. ^Harford Middle School
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| editor =
| title = Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Privy Council and Order of Precedence
| edition = 96th (Coronation honours)
| year = 1938
| publisher = Shaw Publishing in conjunction with Burke's Peerage
| location = London
| pages = 2689–2690
| chapter = Metaxà
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  • {{cite book

| editor = Peter Townend (Ed.)
| title = Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry
| edition = 18th
| year = 1965
| publisher = Burke's Peerage
| location = London
| pages = Vol. I, pp. 367–370
| chapter = Harford of Horton
| nopp = true
}}
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| editor = Peter Townend (Ed.)
| title = Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry
| edition = 18th
| year = 1972
| publisher = Burke's Peerage
| location = London
| pages = Vol. III, pp. 140–141
| chapter = Campbell, formerly of Auchendarroch and Inverawe
| nopp = true
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  • {{cite book

| editor = John Jones and Catherine Willbery (Edd.)
| title = The Balliol College Register (1940–1990)
| edition = 6th
| year = 1993
| publisher = printed for private circulation
| location =
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External links

  • Harford Middle School
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