Robert Black (colonial administrator)

Sir Robert Black
23rd Governor of Hong Kong
In office
23 January 1958 – 31 March 1964
MonarchElizabeth II
Colonial SecretaryEdgeworth Beresford David
Claude Bramall Burgess
Edmund Brinsley Teesdale
Preceded byAlexander Grantham
Succeeded byDavid Trench
3rd Governor of Singapore
In office
30 June 1955 – 9 December 1957
MonarchElizabeth II
Chief SecretaryWilliam Goode
Chief MinisterDavid Marshall
Lim Yew Hock
Preceded byJohn Fearns Nicoll
William Goode (acting)
Succeeded byWilliam Goode
19th Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong
In office
20 February 1952 – 30 March 1955
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded byJohn Fearns Nicoll
Succeeded byEdgeworth Beresford David
Personal details
Born
Robert Brown Black

(1906-06-03)3 June 1906
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died19 October 1999(1999-10-19) (aged 93)
Dunedin Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, England
Spouse(s)Anne, Lady Black
Children2
ProfessionColonial administrator
Robert Black College of the University of Hong Kong was named after him.

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.