Herbert Reginald McClure

{{short description|British colonial administrator}}

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|name = Herbert Reginald McClure

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|order = Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands

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|term_start = April 1920

|term_end = 1 January 1925

|predecessor = Edward Carlyon Eliot

|successor = Arthur Grimble

|birth_date = 23 March 1883{{cite web| last = | first = |title= McClure, Herbert Reginald (Date of Birth: 23 March 1883)|publisher= National Archives (UK)|page=|date = 15 September 1897|url= https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7604011| accessdate=17 September 2021}}

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|death_date = 1 January 1925{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28062167|title= OBITUARY. MR. H. R. McCLURE |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=5 Jan 1926 |access-date=17 September 2021 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

|death_place =Sydney, Australia

|nationality = British

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|occupation = Colonial Service

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Herbert Reginald McClure, (23 March 1883 – 1 January 1925) was a British Colonial Service administrator.

He joined the Royal Navy and was appointed as Acting Sub-Lieutenant on 15 January 1898. He trained as an officer cadet at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, when the wooden hulk HMS Britannia was the barracks. He "passed out" (graduated) following examinations in April 1899.{{cite web| last = | first = |title= H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of January, 1898|page=|year = 1898|url= http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Category:H.M.S._Britannia_(Training_Ship)_Entrants_of_January,_1898| accessdate=17 September 2021}}

He joined the Colonial Service. He was appointed as the District Commissioner of Nyeri in Kenya in 1914.{{cite web| last = | first = |title= Government Notice 30 – Appointments|publisher= Kenya Gazette |page=|date = 28 January 1914|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xMEtjuviQMsC&dq=Herbert+Reginald+McClure&pg=PA98 | accessdate=17 September 2021}} He was appointed as officer in charge of the Masai Reserve in Kenya in 1920.{{cite web| last = | first = |title= Government Notice 161 – Appointments|publisher= Kenya Gazette |page=|date = 5 May 1920|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LCp0rHHWpJIC&dq=Herbert+Reginald+McClure&pg=PP6 | accessdate=17 September 2021}}

He was appointed Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in February 1922. He died in Sydney, Australian on 1 January 1925 while staying at the Wentworth Hotel.