This is a list of the resident commissioners of Swaziland, a kingdom in Southern Africa which gained full independence in 1968.
After the Second Boer War ended in 1902, a Swaziland order in council was made in Britain in 1903 and a Swaziland administration was proclaimed in 1904, which set up the machinery of government under a resident commissioner. However, Labotsibeni, Regent of Swaziland, protested strongly against the terms of both. In 1905, Prince Malunge led a Swazi deputation to Pretoria to meet the British high commissioner for Southern Africa, William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, and Selborne visited Swaziland in September 1906. He announced on his visit that the administration of Swaziland would, in view of the imminent restoration of self-government to the Transvaal, be transferred to himself. As a result of Labotsibeni's pressure, the threat posed by the recent Zulu uprising, and the unresolved issue of the land concessions, Swaziland thus became a high commission territory, under the high commissioner for Southern Africa, like Bechuanaland and Basutoland, although it was never declared to be a British protectorate, a status the Regent would not accept.
Resident commissioners
Date Name Birth/Death 1902–1907 Francis Enraght-Moony b. 1865 – d. 1943 1907–1916 Robert Thorne Coryndon b. 1870 – d. 1925 Jan 1917 – Oct 1928 Sir De Symons Montagu George Honey b. 1872 – d. 1945 Oct 1928 – 1 Apr 1935 Thomas Ainsworth Dickson b. 1881 – d. 1935 Oct 1935 – Nov 1937 Allan Graham Marwick b. 1877 – d. 1966 Nov 1937 – 30 Sep 1942 Charles Lamb Bruton b. 1890 – d. 1969 30 Sep 1942 – 25 Aug 1946 Eric Kellett Featherstone b. 1896 – d. 1965 25 Aug 1946 – 1951 Edward Betham Beetham b. 1905 – d. 1979 1951–1956 David Loftus Morgan b. 1904 – d. 1976 1956–1964 Brian Allan Marwick b. 1908 – d. 1992 1964–1968 Francis Alfred Lloyd b. 1916 – d. 2006
See also
High Commissioner for Southern Africa
References