Francis Graeme Tyrrell

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Sir Francis Graeme Tyrrell

Acting Governor of British Ceylon
In office 20 September 1933 – 23 December 1933
Monarch	George V
Preceded by	Graeme Thomson
Succeeded by	Reginald Edward Stubbs

Personal details
Born	1876
Died	1964

Sir Francis Graeme Tyrrell KBE CMG (1876–1964) was a British colonial administrator. A son of Lieutenant-General Francis Hardinge Tyrrell of the Indian Army,^[1] he was the Colonial Secretary of Ceylon and served as an acting Governor of British Ceylon.^[2] He was appointed on 20 September 1933 and was acting Governor until 23 December 1933. He was succeeded by Reginald Edward Stubbs.^[3]

He was created a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1928 New Year Honours while serving as the Controller of Revenue in Ceylon and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1934 New Year Honours while serving as the Colonial Secretary of Ceylon.^[4] His sister Beatrix Maud was the wife of John Jamieson Willis, Bishop of Uganda.^[5]

References

^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Compainionage, 1931, pg 2164
^ The Straits Times, 6 November 1936, Page 10
^ "Sri Lanka". Rulers.org. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
^ Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1931, pg 2164
^ Alumni Cantabrigienses, John Venn, 2011, pg 507

Government offices
Preceded by Graeme Thomson	acting Governor of British Ceylon 1933-1933	Succeeded by Reginald Edward Stubbs

v t e ←Governors of British Ceylon
Military Governors	Agnew Stuart Doyle Bonnevaux de Meuron Andrews*
Governors	North Maitland Wilson Brownrigg Barnes Paget Campbell Barnes Wilson Wilmot-Horton Stewart-Mackenzie Campbell Emerson Tennent Torrington MacCarthy Anderson MacCarthy Ward Lockyer Wilkinson MacCarthy O'Brien Robinson Robinson Irving Gregory Longden Douglas Hamilton-Gordon Havelock Walker Ridgeway im Thurn Blake Clifford McCallum Stubbs Chalmers Stubbs Anderson Stubbs Manning Clementi Alexander Clifford Fletcher Stanley Bourdillon Thomson Tyrrell Stubbs Wedderburn Caldecott Moore**
Acting, Resident and Superintendent, became Governor-General of Ceylon*

v t e Chief Secretary of Ceylon
Colonial Secretary	Cleghorn Boyd Arbuthnot Rodney Anstruther Tennent MacCarthy Gibson Irving Birch Douglas Smith Walker im Thurn Ashmore Clifford Booth Stubbs Clementi Murchison Fletcher Bourdillon
Chief Secretary	Bourdillon Tyrrell Wedderburn Wodeman Drayton

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