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John Lisseter Humphreys

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John Lisseter Humphreys {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|CBE}} (21 September 1881 – 15 December 1929) was a British colonial administrator, and Governor of North Borneo from 15 October 1926^[1] until his death while on leave in China in December 1929.^[2]

Humphreys was educated at Bromsgrove School. He was a senior classical scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford and entered the Straits Settlement Civil Service in 1905 as Cadet. Among other appointments he has been a magistrate in Singapore and Penang.^[3] He was British Agent at Terengganu from 1916–1919; Adviser at Terengganu from 1919–25, Adviser at Kedah from 1925–1926, before being appointed Governor of North Borneo in October 1926.^[4] During his furlough in late 1929, he contracted pneumonia and was rushed to the hospital in Tientsin where he succumbed due to a heart failure on the afternoon of Sunday, 15 December.^[5]

J. L. Humphreys was awarded the C.B.E. in 1925 and the C.M.G in 1928.

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1. ^British North Borneo Herald, 16 October 1926; page 191
2. ^http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FBAM%206%2F72
3. ^British North Borneo Herald, August 2, 1926; page 140
4. ^http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Malay_states.htm
5. ^British North Borneo Herald, January 2, 1930; page 1

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