Stewart Symes

Sir
George Stewart Symes
GCB, GCMG, DSO
Stewart Symes by Bassano. 12 July 1938
Governor of Tanganyika
In office
1931–1934
Preceded by Donald Charles Cameron
Succeeded by Harold MacMichael
Governor-General of Sudan
In office
1934–1940
Preceded by John Maffey
Succeeded by Hubert Huddleston
Personal details
Born 1882
Died 1962

Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Stewart Symes GCB, GCMG, DSO (1882–1962) was a British Army officer and colonial governor.[1]

Career

Symes was commissioned a Second lieutenant in The Hampshire Regiment in August 1900, and served in South Africa during the end of the Second Boer War in 1902, receiving the rank of Lieutenant on 21 April 1902.[2] Later that year he was posted in the Aden Hinterland, where he served 1903-1904. He is said to have been the only British army officer to be awarded a DSO for services in the hinterland.[3]

He was Governor of the Palestine North District from 1920 to 1925, Chief Secretary to the Government of Palestine from 1925 to 1928, Resident of Aden from 1928 to 1931, Governor of Tanganyika from 1931 to 1934 and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1934 to 1940.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Robertson. J.W. (September 2004). "Symes, Sir (George) Stewart (1882–1962)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27436. p. 3383. 23 May 1902.
  3. ↑ Lieutenant Colonel Sir (George) Stewart Symes
  4. ↑ Long, Charles William Richard (2004). British Pro-consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929: The Challenge of Nationalism. Routledge. p. 215. ISBN 0-415-35033-6.

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