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Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer KCMG (4 July 1882 – 1 May 1964) was an English ornithologist, big game hunter and colonial official. He was Commissioner and then Governor of British Somaliland between 1913 and 1922, and was responsible for finally quelling the twenty-year-long Dervish resistance.
Sir William Henry Manning, Commissioner: July 1911 to 1914: Horace Archer Byatt, Commissioner: May 1914 to October 1919: Geoffrey Francis Archer, Commissioner: October 1919 to 17 August 1922: Geoffrey Francis Archer, Governor: From 5 June 1920, Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer 17 August 1922 to 29 November 1925: Gerald Henry Summers, Governor
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) [1] is an English novelist, life peer, convicted criminal, and former elected politician who remains a member of the House of Lords. [2] Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–1974), but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal ...
In November 1924 Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer was unexpectedly appointed governor-general of Sudan to succeed Sir Lee Stack, whose assassination in Cairo had precipitated a crisis in Anglo-Egyptian relations, not least in Sudan itself, where Egypt and Britain were nominal co-domini. It was the first time that a civilian had held this office.
Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer. In 1913, Archer was appointed Acting Commissioner in British Somaliland, later becoming Governor from 1919 to 1922. He was also Commander in Chief of the forces in British Somaliland where since the beginning of the century British rule had been opposed by the followers of Sayyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan.
Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer Archer was appointed Governor of Uganda in 1923 and made his first priority the control of 19,000 highly destructive elephants in the colony. He took an interest in education of the native people, asking for advice on the curriculum, buildings, organization and so on, although he was limited in what he could achieve ...
Sir William Henry Manning: 1910-1911 Horace Archer Byatt: 1911-1914 Geoffrey Francis Archer: 1914-1922 Gerald Henry Summers: 1922-1925 vacante: 1925-1926 Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster: 1926-1932 Sir Arthur Salisbury Lawrance: 1932-1939 Vincent Goncalves Glenday: 1939-1940 vacante (annessione all'A.O.I.) 19 agosto 1940 - 16 marzo ...
