Reginald Stubbs
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Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs GCMG |
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| 27th Governor of British Ceylon | |
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In office 23 December 1933 – 30 June 1937 |
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| Monarch |
George V Edward VIII George VI |
| Preceded by |
Francis Graeme Tyrrell acting governor |
| Succeeded by |
Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn acting governor |
| Acting Governor of British Ceylon | |
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In office 24 March 1918 – 10 September 1918 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Preceded by | John Anderson |
| Succeeded by | William Manning |
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In office 4 December 1915 – 15 April 1916 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Preceded by | Robert Chalmers |
| Succeeded by | John Anderson |
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In office 24 January 1913 – 18 October 1913 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Preceded by | Henry Edward McCallum |
| Succeeded by | Robert Chalmers |
| 16th Governor of Hong Kong | |
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In office 30 September 1919 – 1 November 1925 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Preceded by | Francis Henry May |
| Succeeded by | Cecil Clementi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 October 1876 |
| Died | 7 December 1947 (aged 71) |
| Spouse(s) | Marjory Stubbs |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, GCMG (Chinese: 司徒拔) (13 October 1876 – 7 December 1947) was a British colonial governor, who was once the Governor of Hong Kong. He caused controversy while Governor of Ceylon over the Bracegirdle Incident.
Reginald Edward Stubbs was born on 13 October 1876, the son of William Stubbs, a historian and bishop of Chester and Oxford, consecutively. He was educated at Radley and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He obtained first class honours in Lit. Hum. in 1899.
He entered Colonial Office in 1900 as a second-class clerk, eventually serving as acting first class clerk from 1907 to 1910, when he became a permanent 1st class clerk. In that same year, Stubbs was sent on a special mission to Malay Peninsula and Hong Kong. He was a member of West African Lands Committee in 1912, and became a colonial secretary of Ceylon in from 1913 to 1919.
He was appointed Hong Kong Governor in 1919, a position he served until 1925. Beginning from his governorship, the Chinese translated names of British Governors are made to look more like real life Chinese names.
During Stubb's tenure, strikes were frequent, thus harming the Hong Kong economy in the process. In 1922, seamen went on strike in Hong Kong, followed by a large strike that involved workers in Hong Kong and Canton, China. The strikers demanded the annulment of the "unequal treaties" (Treaty of Nanking, Treaty of Peking, and New Territories land lease agreement, which, altogether, allowed British control of Hong Kong). The strikers also demanded better treatment of Chinese labourers on Hong Kong.
At first, Stubbs tried to suppress the strikers with legal and forceful means, but the efforts backfired, and caused an exodus of more than 100,000 Chinese labourers to China. This further damaged the economy, and Stubbs left Hong Kong in 1925.
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