John Lisseter Humphreys, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Lisseter Humphreys
British Colonial governor
Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1881
Date of Death: 16-Dec-1929
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About John Lisseter Humphreys
- John Lisseter Humphreys (21 September 1881 – 15 December 1929) was a British colonial administrator, and Governor of North Borneo from 15 October 1926 until his death while on leave in China in December 1929.Humphreys was educated at Bromsgrove School.
- He was a senior classical scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford and entered the Straits Settlement Civil Service in 1905 as Cadet.
- Among other appointments he has been a magistrate in Singapore and Penang.
- He was British Agent at Terengganu from 1916–1919; Adviser at Terengganu from 1919–25, Adviser at Kedah from 1925–1926, before being appointed Governor of North Borneo in October 1926.
- During his furlough in late 1929, he contracted pneumonia and was rushed to the hospital in Tientsin where he succumbed due to a heart failure on the afternoon of Sunday, 15 December.J.
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- Humphreys was awarded the C.B.E.
- in 1925 and the C.M.G in 1928.
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