John Robert Chancellor

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Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO (1870–1952) was a British soldier and colonial official. After a career in the British Army he became a colonial administrator serving as governor of Mauritius (1911–1916), Trinidad and Tobago (1916–1921) and Southern Rhodesia (1923–1928). He was knighted in 1913. In 1928 he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine where he was perceived as being cool to Zionism. While he was in London in 1929, Arab riots protesting Jewish immigration broke out. On his return he initially condemned Arab attacks but was subsequently less critical. He helped write the Lord Passfield's White Paper of 1930 which aimed to reinterpret the Balfour Declaration in order to back away from a commitment to the creation of a Jewish state. He left Palestine in 1931.

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• World Statesmen - Mauritius
• World Statesmen - Israel

Preceded by Sir Cavendish Boyle	Governor of Mauritius 1911–1916	Succeeded by Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
Preceded by George Le Hunte	Governor of Trinidad and Tobago 1916–1921	Succeeded by Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson
Preceded by Percy Donald Leslie Flynn (acting administrator)	Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1923–1928	Succeeded by Murray Bisset (acting)
Preceded by Sir Harry Charles Luke (acting)	High Commissioner of Palestine 1928–1931	Succeeded by Mark Aitchison Young (acting)