Sir Theodore Samuel Adams (1885-1961) was a British colonial civil servant.'' The International Who's Who 1943-44''. 8th edition.

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, London, 1943, p. 5. Adams graduated from

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, University of Oxford and entered the British colonial civil service. His first post was as a cadet in the

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in 1908. He then had a succession of more senior appointments in Malaya before becoming Chief Commissioner of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria from 1937. Adams played a part in the Selangor succession dispute.

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Portraits of Adams at the National Portrait Gallery.
1885 births 1961 deaths Alumni of All Souls College, Oxford British colonial governors and administrators in Africa British people in British Nigeria British people in British Malaya {{UK-gov-bio-stub