William Hood Treacher

Sir William Hood Treacher
Sir William Hood Treacher
1st British Governor of North Borneo
In office 26 August 1881 – 1887
Preceded by	Post created
Succeeded by	Sir William Maunder Crocker
6th British Resident of Selangor
In office 1892–1896
Preceded by	Sir William Edward Maxwell
Succeeded by	Sir John Pickersgill Rodger
6th British Resident of Perak
In office 1896–1902
Preceded by	Sir Frank Swettenham
Succeeded by	Sir John Pickersgill Rodger
Personal details
Born	(1849-12-01)1 December 1849
Died	3 May 1919(1919-05-03) (aged 69)

Sir William Hood Treacher KCMG (1 December 1849 – 3 May 1919) was a British colonial administrator in Borneo and the Straits Settlements.

Treacher was the fourth son of Rev. Joseph Skipper Treacher, MA, Vicar of Sandford-on-Thames, by his first wife Pauline Louise Blanche Pierret. Both he and his father were graduates of Oxford colleges.

Cousin of John Gavaron Treacher, doctor in Sarawak from 1843 and Colonial Surgeon to Labuan from 1848, William arrived in Labuan via Singapore in 1871 to be Acting Police Magistrate, becoming Colonial Secretary of Labuan in 1873, going on to become the first Governor of North Borneo (1881–1887); Resident of Selangor (1892–1896); the sixth British Resident of Perak (1896–1902); and second Resident-General of British Malaya (1901–1904)[1].

He founded the Anglo Chinese School in Klang on 10 March 1893.

Treacher married Elizabeth Frances Cornelia Rumsey (known as Leila), the daughter of the Rev. J. Rumsey, at Ss Philip & James's Church in Oxford on 25 April 1881. Their daughter Leila Treacher was born in Singapore in 1882.

Sources and references

• WorldStatesmen – Malaysia
• Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom (1920)
• The Suffrage Annual and Women's Who's who (1913), Stanley Paul

External links

• Works by William Hood Treacher at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about William Hood Treacher at Internet Archive