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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG
Order of St Michael and St George

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, GCVO
Royal Victorian Order

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, GBE
Order of the British Empire

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, DSO
Distinguished Service Order

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 (1870–1952) was a British
United Kingdom

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 soldier and colonial
Colony

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 official.

After a career in the British Army
British Army

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's Corps of Royal Engineers, which included service on the North West Frontier and being Secretary of the Colonial Defence Committee, he became a colonial administrator serving as Governor
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 of Mauritius
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 (1911–1916), Trinidad and Tobago
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 (1916–1921) and Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa, and known today as Zimbabwe....
 (1923–1928).






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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG
Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV of the United Kingdom whilst he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III of the United Kingdom....
, GCVO
Royal Victorian Order

The Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a House Order of chivalry in the Commonwealth realms. Created by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom on 21 April 1896, with the motto Victoria and 20 June as the official day, the order was established to recognise those who have served the monarch with distinction, each be...
, GBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
, DSO
Distinguished Service Order

The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth of Nations countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat....
 (1870–1952) was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 soldier and colonial
Colony

In politics and in history, a colony is a Territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies....
 official.

After a career in the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
's Corps of Royal Engineers, which included service on the North West Frontier and being Secretary of the Colonial Defence Committee, he became a colonial administrator serving as Governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
 of Mauritius
Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....
 (1911–1916), Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
 (1916–1921) and Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa, and known today as Zimbabwe....
 (1923–1928). He also served as Principal Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence
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 From 1922–1923.

In 1898 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order
Distinguished Service Order

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 (DSO). In 1909 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. He was knighted in the 1913 King's Birthday Honours when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). In 1922 he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG). In 1928, he became High Commissioner
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 of the British Mandate of Palestine where he was perceived as being cool to Zionism
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. He was appointed a Knight of Justice in the Venerable Order of Saint John on 19 December 1928.

While he was in London
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 in 1929, Arab riots protesting Jewish immigration broke out. On his return, he initially condemned Arab attacks but was subsequently less critical. He helped write the Lord Passfield's White Paper
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 of 1930 which aimed to reinterpret the Balfour Declaration in order to back away from a commitment to the creation of a Jewish state. He left Palestine in 1931.

In 1937 he was appointed chairman of the Livestock Commission, which was set up following the passing of the Livestock Industry Act, 1937. In the 1947 King's Birthday Honours he was created a Knight Grand Cross in the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (GBE) for services to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

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