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Sir John Christian Ramsay Sturrock CMG (20 March 1875 – 13 February 1937) was a British colonial administrator. He served as Resident Commissioner in Basutoland, from 1926 to 1935.[1][2][3]
Sturrock was born in Madras, British India, the second son of John Sturrock CIE of Dundee, Scotland, and his wife, Regina Mary Dobbie, daughter of Gen. George Staple Dobbie.[4][5] He was educated at Charterhouse School. He graduated B.A. at Balliol College, Oxford in 1898, M.A. in 1902.[1][6][7]
Sturrock acted as tutor to Daudi Cwa II of Buganda, a government appointment, and accompanied him to England in 1913.[2][8][9] He was appointed a District Commissioner in Uganda in 1914; and Provincial Commissioner in 1922.[1] In the early 1920s he helped set up dispensaries in Uganda.[10]
Described as "progressive" by Gill, Sturrock began a programme of reform in what is now Lesotho in the 1920s.[11] He made a good impression on Margery Perham, a visitor to Basutoland around the end of 1929.[12] He took the view that indirect rule had not been applied effectively; and initiated judicial and administrative reform measures that were applied over a period of a dozen years.[13]
In 1935, Sturrock was replaced as Resident Commissioner by Edmund Charles Smith Richards.[3]
Sturrock married on 19 April 1917 Blanche Elizabeth Walker, third daughter of Daniel Houston Walker of Middlesbrough.[6]
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