Robert Black (colonial administrator)

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Sir Robert Black GCMG OBE
23rd Governor of Hong Kong
In office 23 January 1958 – 31 March 1964
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Colonial Secretary	Edgeworth Beresford David Claude Bramall Burgess Edmund Brinsley Teesdale
Preceded by	Alexander Grantham
Succeeded by	David Trench
3rd Governor of Singapore
In office 30 June 1955 – 9 December 1957
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Chief Secretary	William Goode
Chief Minister	David Marshall Lim Yew Hock
Preceded by	John Fearns Nicoll William Goode (acting)
Succeeded by	William Goode
19th Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong
In office 20 February 1952 – 30 March 1955
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	John Fearns Nicoll
Succeeded by	Edgeworth Beresford David
Personal details
Born	Robert Brown Black (1906-06-03)3 June 1906 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	19 October 1999(1999-10-19) (aged 93) Dunedin Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, England
Spouse(s)	Anne, Lady Black
Children	2
Profession	Colonial administrator

Sir Robert Brown Black GCMG OBE (Chinese: 柏立基; 3 June 1906 – 19 October 1999) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1955 to 1957, and Governor of Hong Kong from 1958 to 1964.

Born in Edinburgh and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, he would spend three decades overseas and return to Britain in the 1960s.