Sir Drummond Chaplin
5th Administrator of Southern Rhodesia
In office
1 November 1914 – 1 September 1923
MonarchGeorge V
Preceded byWilliam Milton
Succeeded byCharles Coghlan
Personal details
Born(1866-08-10)10 August 1866
Twickenham, London, United Kingdom
Died16 November 1933(1933-11-16) (aged 67)

Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin GBE KCMG (10 August 1866 – 16 November 1933) served as administrator for the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia from 1914 to 1923.[1][2] He succeeded William Milton.[3]

Chaplin, born in Twickenham in London, United Kingdom, attended Harrow School, and University College, University of Oxford.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Ian Christopher Fletcher and Philippa Levine. Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation, and Race, 2000. Page 182.
  2. ↑ Peter Duignan and Lewis Henry Gann. The Rulers of German Africa, 1884–1914, 1977. Page 137.
  3. 1 2 Rosenthal, Eric. Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, 1967. Page 105.
  4. ↑ Graham, George H. "Obituary of Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin". www.ghgraham.org. Retrieved 4 December 2016.


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