Laurence Guillemard


Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard was a British civil servant who served as high commissioner in Malaya when it was under the British Empire.

Biography

He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Guillemard spent his early career in the civil service, where he was for several years Principal Private Secretary to Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer. In May 1902, he was appointed Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.
He was appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Federated Malay States in 1920, and was one of the promoters of British policies favouring the Malay ethnic group. He was invested as a Companion of Order of the Bath in 1905, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1910 and a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1923. He was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1927 New Year Honours; he retired from the service in the same year.

Places named after him

, Tanah Merah, Kelantan, Malaysia