Richard Turnbull (colonial administrator)

Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull, GCMG (7 July 1909[2] – 21 December 1998[3])[4] was a British colonial governor and the last governor of the British mandate of Tanganyika from 1958 to 1961. Following the country's independence, he was governor-general from 9 December 1961 to 9 December 1962.

Richard Gordon Turnbull
Governor of Tanganyika
In office
15 July 1958  9 December 1961
Preceded byEdward Twining
Succeeded byhimself (as Governor-General)
Governor-General of Tanganyika
In office
9 December 1961  9 December 1962
Preceded byOffice established
himself (as Governor)
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Julius Nyerere (as President of Tanganyika)
Personal details
Born7 July 1909
St Albans
Died21 December 1998 (aged 89)[1]
Gloucestershire

Biography

Richard Turnbull was chief secretary of Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising.[5] In 1958, he succeeded Edward Twining as governor of Tanganyika.[5] Following the first elections to the Legislative Council, Turnbull appointed five members of Julius Nyerere's Tanganyika African National Union party.[5] At the end of 1961, Tanganyika became independent with Nyerere as prime minister and Turnbull as governor-general. He served for a year until Tanganyika became a republic in December 1962. He later became the penultimate High Commissioner of Aden in 1965.

References

  1. Mwakikagile, G. (2009). My Life as an African: Autobiographical Writings. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 52. ISBN 9781448612567.
  2. Europa Publications Limited (1970). The Middle East and North Africa. Europa Publications.
  3. https://www.rulers.org/1998-12.html
  4. "Tanzania", worldstatesmen.org, 2000, retrieved 19 April 2010
  5. Mwakikagile, Godfrey (2009). Life in Tanganyika in The Fifties. Godfrey Mwakikagile. p. 142. ISBN 9987-16-012-3.
Government offices
Preceded by
Edward Twining
Governors of Tanganyika
1958–1961
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
Kennedy Trevaskis
High Commissioner of Aden
1965–1967
Succeeded by
Humphrey Trevelyan
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