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unusual facts about district officer



Charles Vyner Brooke

Vyner served as aide-de-camp to his father 1897–1898, district officer of Simanggang 1898–1901, Resident of Mukah and Oya, 1902–1903, Resident of the Third Division 1903–1904, President of the Law Courts 1904–1911, Vice-President of the Supreme and General Councils 1904–1911.


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Aref al-Aref

In 1921, he was appointed as a District Officer of the British administration by the Civil Secretary Colonel Wyndham Deedes.

Arthur Vincent Aston

Aston also posted as the Malayan Civil Service Chairman of Kinta Sanitary Board, Acting Resident Councillor of Penang from 1 April 1933 to 20 April 1933, District Officer of Telok Anson, Acting Resident Councillor of Malacca and British Adviser for Perak (1946 - 1948).

Brian Donohoe

In 1981 Donohoe became a district officer for the National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO), where he remained until his election to Westminster.

Gwilliam Iwan Jones

He then worked for the Colonial Service in Nigeria (1926–1946), serving as District Officer for Bende and the surrounding area.

Heinrich Schnee

In 1900, he became a District Officer and Deputy Governor of German Samoa.

Ivor Stanbrook

He completed postgraduate study at Pembroke College, Oxford then left for Nigeria in 1950 where he worked for ten years in the Colonial Service as District Officer in various regions of Northern and Western Nigeria, including Ilorin, Western Region.

Jerry Cornes

Also in 1937, he went to work for the civil service in Palestine, as assistant district officer of Ramallah, in Judea.

Kenelm Hubert Digby

In 1934 he was called to the Bar and a few days later sailed to Kuching in Sarawak as a newly recruited District Officer to work for Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, last of the White Rajahs of Sarawak.

Lady Meriam

In 1935, Tunku was promoted to be District Officer of Padang Terap.

Oscar Cook

In December 1914 he was Assistant District Officer at Semporna, and it was at this time that he compiled a vocabulary of Bajau words.

Thomas Holderness

He chose the North-Western Provinces and served from 1873 to 1876 as a district officer in the small towns of Bijnor, Fatehpur, and Muzaffarnagar.

Tom Iremonger

Tom, son of Colonel Harold Iremonger and his wife Julia Quarry, was educated at King's College, Canterbury and Oriel College, Oxford, where he gained a sailing blue, then worked as a district officer in the Colonial Administrative Service in the Western Pacific.

Warqenah Eshate

He was stopped at Zeila, then part of British Somaliland, by J.L. Harrington the British district officer, who told him that on account of the war he could not proceed, and in any case it would take six weeks to reach Addis Ababa.