Frederick Crawford (colonial administrator)

Sir Frederick Crawford KCMG, MBE (1906–1978) was a British colonial administrator.

He was Governor of the Seychelles between 1951 and 1953. [1] He was Deputy Governor of Kenya from 1953 to 1957 during the Mau Mau uprising. He was Governor of Uganda from 1957 to 1961.

He became a director of the Anglo-American Corporation and a resident of Rhodesia. His passport was withdrawn by the British government in 9 May 1968 while visiting London due to his implicit support for the illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Rhodesia. [2][3]

Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Andrew Cohen
Governor of Uganda
1957–1961
Succeeded by
Sir Walter Fleming Coutts
Preceded by
Sir Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke
List of Governors of the Seychelles
1951–1953
Succeeded by
Sir William Addis

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