British Western Pacific Territories
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- 1880 - 1905 High
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- 1905 - 1953 High
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- 1953 - 2 Jan 1976
High Commissioners' Flag
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British
Western
Pacific
Territories
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Chronology
13 Aug
1877
British Western Pacific Territories
(Fiji [1878-
1952]; New Hebrides [1906-1917];
Pitcairn [1898-
1952]; Cook Islands
[1893-1901]; Niue [1900-
1901]; Union Islands
(Tokelau) [1889-1926];
Phoenix Islands [1892-1939];
Tonga [1900-1952];
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
[1892-1971]; Canton
and
Enderbury Islands [1939-1971] and
Solomon
Islands [1893-1971]) created,
with the governors
governors of Fiji
(from 3 Jul 1952,
the High
Commissioners of the Solomon
Islands) as High
Commissioners for the
British Western Pacific
(effective 4 Feb 1878).
1942 -
1945
British military administration, high
commission
interrupted (parts of Solomon Islands,
Gilbert
Islands, and Phoenix Islands occupied
by Japan).
2 Jan
1976
Dissolution.
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High Commissioners in, over, and for the Western
Pacific Ocean
(also governors of Fiji to 3 Jul 1952,
then High Commissioners of Solomon Islands)
4 Feb 1878 - 3 Jul
1952 the governors of Fiji
3 Jul 1952 - 7 Jul 1955 Robert
Christopher Stafford Stanley (b. 1899
- d. 1981)
26 Sep 1955 - 4 Mar 1961
John Gutch
(b. 1905 - d. 1988)
(from 13 Jun 1957, Sir John Gutch)
4 Mar 1961 - 16 Jun 1964
David Clive Crosbie
Trench
(b. 1915 - d. 1988)
(from Jun 1962, Sir David
Clive
Crosbie Trench)
16 Jun 1964 - 6 Mar 1969
Sir Robert Sidney
Foster
(b. 1913 - d. 2005)
6 Mar 1969 - 28 Sep 1973
Sir Michael David Irving
Gass
(b. 1916 - d. 1983)
10 Oct 1973 - 2 Jan 1976
Donald Collin Cumyn
Luddington
(b. 1920 - d. 2009)
© Ben Cahoon
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