Cecil Clementi Smith
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Sir Cecil Clementi Smith G.C.M.G. (1840 - February 6, 1916, was a British colonial administrator. He was Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon before being appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1887 to 1893.
He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and in 1862 he was elected one of the first student interpreters at Hong Kong, where he became colonial Treasurer. In 1878 he was transferred to the Straits settlements as Colonial Secretary and became Governor in 1887.
He succeeded in putting down several Chinese secret societies in the Straits Settlements, such as those in Singapore, for which he received the gratitude of the merchants that traded in the region.
He was Master of the Mercers' Company in 1897.
He was president of the commission of Inquiry on the Trinidad riots in 1903 and was chief British delegate at International Opium Commission Shanghai in 1909.
| Preceded by Sir Frederick Weld |
Governor of the Straits Settlements 1887 - 1893 |
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