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William Hood Treacher

{{Short description|Colonial administrator}}

{{redirect|William Treacher|British actor|Bill Treacher}}

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|order = 1st British Governor of North Borneo

|term_start = 26 August 1881

|term_end = 1887

|monarch = Queen Victoria

|predecessor = Post created

|successor = Sir William Maunder Crocker

|office2 = 6th British Resident of Selangor

|term_start2 = 1892

|term_end2 = 1896

|predecessor2 = Sir William Edward Maxwell

|successor2 = Sir John Pickersgill Rodger

|constituency2 =

|office3 = 6th British Resident of Perak

|term_start3 = 1896

|term_end3 = 1902

|predecessor3 = Sir Frank Swettenham

|successor3 = Sir John Pickersgill Rodger

|constituency3 =

|birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1849|12|1}}

|birth_place =Wellington, England

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1919|5|3|1849|12|1}}

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Sir William Hood Treacher {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} (1 December 1849 – 3 May 1919) was a British colonial administrator in Borneo and the Straits Settlements. He founded the Anglo Chinese School in Klang on 10 March 1893.

Family

Treacher was the fourth son of Rev. Joseph Skipper Treacher, MA, Vicar of Sandford-on-Thames,http://www.stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/treacher_joseph.html Grave and biography of Joseph Skipper Treacher by his first wife Pauline Louise Blanche Pierret. His father was an Oxford graduate.{{alox2|title=Treacher, Joseph Skipper}}{{alox2|title=Treacher, William Hood}}

On 19 April 1866, at the age of sixteen, Treacher matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford, where he held a Scholarship for four years. He graduated BA in 1870 and in 1881 proceeded to MA by seniority.

Cousin of John Gavaron Treacher, a doctor in Sarawak from 1843 and Colonial Surgeon to Labuan from 1848, William arrived in Labuan via Singapore in 1871 to be Acting Police Magistrate, becoming Colonial Secretary of Labuan in 1873, going on to become the first Governor of North Borneo (1881–1887); Resident of Selangor (1892–1896); the sixth British Resident of Perak (1896–1902); and second Resident-General of British Malaya (1901–1904).{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/countyfamiliesof591919walf#page/1336/mode/2up|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|year=1860}} His grand-nephew, Sir John Treacher rose to be an Admiral in the Royal Navy.{{sfn|Treacher|2004}}

Treacher married Elizabeth Frances Cornelia Rumsey (known as Leila), the daughter of the Rev. J. Rumsey, at Ss Philip & James's Church in Oxford on 25 April 1881. Their daughter Leila Treacher was born in Singapore in 1882.

References

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Sources

  • Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom (1920)
  • The Suffrage Annual and Women's Who's who (1913), Stanley Paul
  • {{citation|first1=Sir John|last1=Treacher|title=Life at Full Throttle: From Wardroom to Boardroom|year=2004|isbn=978-1844151349|publisher=Pen & Sword Maritime}}

External links

  • [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Malay_states.htm WorldStatesmen – Malaysia]
  • {{Gutenberg author | id=32759}}
  • {{Internet Archive author |sname=William Hood Treacher}}

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Category:1849 births

Category:1919 deaths

Category:History of Perak

Category:Administrators in British Borneo

Category:Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford

Category:Governors of North Borneo

Category:Administrators in British Malaya

Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

Category:Colonial Administrative Service officers

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