Robertson, James W., Sir, 1899-1983

found: The last of the proconsuls, 1994:t.p. (Sir James W. Robertson, KT, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, Order of the Nile (4th class), K St J, Civil Secretary of the Sudan 1945-1953, Governor-General of Nigeria, 1955-1960)

found: LC database, 01-20-95(hdg.: Robertson, James, Sir, 1899-; usage Sir James Robertson)

found: His The Kenya coastal strip, 1961:t.p. (James W. Robertson; appt. by Sultan of Zanzibar & Sec. of State for Brit. Colonies, 1961, commissioner to investigate coastal strip of Kenya)

found: Oxford Dictionary of national biography online, July 23, 2024(Robertson, Sir James Wilson (1899-1983), governor-general of Nigeria, was born on 27 October 1899 ... In 1922 he opted for the Sudan political service rather than spend an extra year cramming for the Indian Civil Service. John Willie (his army nickname had stuck) served as district commissioner in four provinces before returning to the White Nile as sub-governor in 1937 and, two years later, to his original province of Blue Nile (Gezira) as deputy and then acting governor ... Robertson was transferred to Khartoum as assistant civil secretary in 1941, being promoted deputy a year later. He was holding this key post when the civil secretary, Sir Douglas Newbold, died suddenly at Khartoum in March 1945 ... Robertson was confirmed as successor in the political service's top post. It fell to Robertson in his eight years in the office to see Sudan through some of its most difficult political crises ... On retirement from Sudan, Robertson became a director of the Uganda Company, and in 1953-4 chaired the British Guiana constitutional commission. It was probably the considerable skill he displayed in negotiating the labyrinthine situation there which in 1955 brought about the offer of the governor-generalship of the new federation of Nigeria ... he died on 23 September 1983 at the Old Vicarage, Moulsford, Berkshire)