John Lisseter Humphreys

24 January 1990
Grave of the Humphreys family, located in the churchyard at St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove

John Lisseter Humphreys 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.

  1. ^ British North Borneo Herald, 16 October 1926; page 191
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  3. ^ British North Borneo Herald, 2 August 1926; page 140
  4. ^ "Malaysian States".
  5. ^ British North Borneo Herald, 2 January 1930; page 1