Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands

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The Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was the chief colonial administrative official representing British authority over the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the central Pacific during the period of British rule.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial administrative office
government position
appliesToJurisdiction British Western Pacific Territories
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
country United Kingdom
hasDuty implement policies of the British Colonial Office
maintain law and order
manage relations with indigenous communities
oversee colonial administration
report to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific
represent British authority in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
supervise local officials
hierarchicalSuperior Colonial Office
High Commissioner for the Western Pacific
locationOfOffice Funafuti
Ocean Island
Tarawa
linked to: Tarawa Atoll
officeAbolishedFollowing independence of Kiribati
independence of Tuvalu
separation of Gilbert and Ellice Islands
officeCreatedForJurisdiction Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony
Protectorate of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
officeHolderTitle Resident Commissioner
partOf British colonial administration
positionHeldBy Arthur William Brookfield
Charles Richard Swayne
David Arthur Kennedy
Edward Carlyon Eliot
Henry Evans Maude
Herbert Reginald McClure
John Davies Murray
John Gutch
John H. Smith NERFINISHED
John Hilary Smith
John L. M. Will
John Osbaldiston Field
John Peel
John Stanley Gibbons
Kenneth Upton
Leslie James
Michael Bernacchi
Philip Ernest Louis "Bill" Parker
Thomas Robert Hall
Vivian Fox-Strangways
William Telfer Campbell
replacedBy Governor of Kiribati
Governor of the Ellice Islands
Governor of the Gilbert Islands
Governor-General of Tuvalu

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Resident Commissioners officeHolderOf Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands