Sir William Hood Treacher (1 December 1849 – 3 May 1919) was a British colonial administrator in Borneo and the Straits Settlements. He founded the Anglo Chinese School in Klang on 10 March 1893.

Family

Treacher was the fourth son of Rev. Joseph Skipper Treacher, MA, Vicar of Sandford-on-Thames, by his first wife Pauline Louise Blanche Pierret. His father was an Oxford graduate. On 19 April 1866, at the age of sixteen, Treacher matriculated at

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, where he held a Scholarship for four years. He graduated BA in 1870 and in 1881 proceeded to MA by seniority. Cousin of John Gavaron Treacher, doctor in

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from 1843 and Colonial Surgeon to

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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 The Governor of North Borneo was the appointed head of the government of North Borneo. Originally the Governor was appointed by the North Borneo Chartered Company, which was responsible for the administration of the protectorate. Upon North Bor ...

(1881–1887); Resident of Selangor (1892–1896); the sixth British Resident of Perak (1896–1902); and second

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of British Malaya (1901–1904). 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

* * 1849 births 1919 deaths History of Perak Administrators in British Borneo Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford Governors of North Borneo Administrators in British Malaya Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George {{Singapore-politician-stub