Geoffrey Cator

Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator CMG
2nd British Resident of Labuan
In office February 1917 – 1918
Preceded by	M. S. H. McArthur
Succeeded by	unknown
19th British Resident of Perak
In office 1933–1939
Preceded by	Bertram Walter Elles
Succeeded by	Marcus Rex
15th British Resident of Selangor
In office July 1932 – 1933
Preceded by	James Lornie
Succeeded by	George Ernest London
Personal details
Born	1884
Died	1973 (aged 88–89) Wiltshire, England
Spouse	Elizabeth Margaret Wynne Mostyn

Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator C.M.G. (1884 – 1973 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England), he was the son of Ronert Cator of Bath. Married with Elizabeth Margaret Wynne Mostyn in 1922, he had a son, Peter John Cator (26 October 1924 - 22 January 2006) and daughter Rosemary Ann Cator.

Career

Sir Geoffrey joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1907 until 1939. He was the British Resident of Brunei from May 1916 until March 1921. Later he was posted as the Superintendent of Government Monopolies of Straits Settlements, the District Officer of Klang and also member of the Legislative Council of Federated Malay States. He was the British Resident of Selangor (1932-1933) and British Resident of Perak (1933-1939). His last post was the head of the Malay States Information Agency in London. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1946 New Year Honours. He had previously been awarded the CMG in 1936. Cator Avenue in Taiping was named after him.

Contributions

During the World War II, Sir Geoffrey also responsible for planning the war strategy, initially he published some written reviews, when Malaya was ambushed by the Japanese. His publications were,

• Malaya's war effort, Asiatic reviews (1940)
• Malaya: The first year, Asiatic review (1940)
• Course of Japanese invasion of Malaya, Crown colonist (February 1942)
• Malaya and the Japanese attack, Asiatic review (1942)
• Malaya: a retrospect, Asiatic review (1942)

References

• Cator Family
• Cator Family
• Cator Family Tree
• Victoria Institution
• National Archive of Malaysia
• The Times Newspaper, London, U.K., 25 January 2006. Title: Hereinafter cited as The Times.
• Geoffrey C Gunn, New World Hegemony in the Malay World