Lim Yew Hock was a Malaysian politician and diplomat who served as Chief Minister of Singapore between 1956 and 1959. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cairnhill between 1959 and 1963 and previously a Member of the Legislative Council and later Legislative Assembly between 1948 and 1963. He and his family elected to take up Malaysian citizenship after the separation of Singapore.
Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas,commonly known as Sir Shenton Thomas,was a British colonial administrator most notable for his role as Governor of the Straits Settlements in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1958 in Colony of Singapore.
Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell was a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Marines,before joining the Colonial Service,in which he served in British Honduras,British Guiana,Natal. He then served as Governor of Fiji,of the British Colony of Natal &Zululand (1881–1882),and of the Straits Settlements.
Sir Cecil Clementi Smith,was a British colonial administrator.
Sir John Baines Johnston was a British diplomat. He is best known for being Britain's High Commissioner to Rhodesia when that colony made its Unilateral Declaration of Independence in November 1965.
Sir John Fearns Nicoll was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1952 to 1955.
Arthur Frederick Richards,1st Baron Milverton,was a British colonial administrator who over his career served as Governor of North Borneo,Gambia,Fiji,Jamaica,and Nigeria.
The Singapore Volunteer Corps or the Singapore Special Constabulary,was a militia unit established in 1854 as the Singapore Volunteer Rifle Corps. The Corps underwent several reorganisations and was known by various names throughout its history. It was renamed the People's Defence Force,the predecessor of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in 1965.
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford,was a British colonial administrator.
Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard was a British civil servant who served as high commissioner in Malaya when it was under the British Empire.
Patrick Richard Henry Wright,Baron Wright of Richmond,was a British diplomat who served as Head of HM Diplomatic Service.
Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston,was a senior British diplomat and translator of Russian poetry.
Sir James Wilson Robertson,was a British civil servant who served as the last colonial governor-general of Nigeria from 1955 to 1960.
William Henry Macleod Read was an active participant in the commercial,political and social life of Singapore and the Malay states between 1841 and 1887.
Sir John Oliver Wright was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to West Germany from 1975 to 1981 and British Ambassador to the United States from 1982 to 1986.
Captain Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford was a British diplomat and colonial administrator,born in New Zealand,where his parents had moved in an unsuccessful attempt at sheep-farming.
William Goode may refer to:
The chief secretary of Singapore,known as the colonial secretary of Singapore before 1955,and the colonial secretary of the Straits Settlements before 1946,was a high ranking government official position in the Straits Settlements before 1946 and the Colony of Singapore after 1946,between 1867 and 1959. It was second only to the governor of Singapore,formerly the governor of the Straits Settlements in the colonial government.
