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Sir William Hood Treacher, K.C.M.G. (1 December 1849 – 3 May 1919). British colonial administrator in Borneo and the Straits Settlements. Sir William was the fourth son of Rev. Joseph Skipper Treacher, MA, Vicar of Sandford-on-Thames,〔http://www.stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/treacher_joseph.html Grave and biography of Joseph Skipper Treacher〕 by his first wife Pauline Louise Blanche Pierret. Both he and his father were graduates of Oxford colleges.〔(Alumni Oxonienses (Vol.4) )〕 Cousin of John Gavaron Treacher, doctor in Sarawak from 1843 and Colonial Surgeon to Labuan from 1848, William arrived in Labuan via Singapore in 1871 to be Acting Police Magistrate, becoming Colonial Secretary of Labuan in 1873, going on to become the first Governor of North Borneo (1881–1887); Resident of Selangor (1892–1896); the sixth British Resident of Perak (1896–1902); and second Resident-General of British Malaya (1901–1904)(). He founded the Anglo Chinese School in Klang on 10 March 1893. Sir William married Elizabeth Frances Cornelia Rumsey (known as Leila), the daughter of the Rev. J. Rumsey, at Ss Philip & James's Church in Oxford on 25 April 1881. Their daughter Leila Treacher was born in Singapore in 1882. == Sources and references == * (WorldStatesmen – Malaysia ) * Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom (1920) * The Suffrage Annual and Women's Who's who (1913), Stanley Paul 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Hood Treacher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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