Herbert Reginald McClure | |
Order: | Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands |
Term Start: | April 1920 |
Term End: | 1 January 1925 |
Predecessor: | Edward Carlyon Eliot |
Successor: | Arthur Grimble |
Birth Date: | 23 March 1883[1] |
Death Date: | 1 January 1925[2] |
Death Place: | Sydney, Australia |
Nationality: | British |
Occupation: | Colonial Service |
Herbert Reginald McClure, (23 March 1883 – 1 January 1925) was a British Colonial Service administrator.He joined the Royal Navy and was appointed as Acting Sub-Lieutenant on 15 January 1898.[1] He trained as an officer cadet at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, when the wooden hulk HMS Britannia was the barracks. He "passed out" (graduated) following examinations in April 1899.[3]
He joined the Colonial Service. He was appointed as the District Commissioner of Nyeri in Kenya in 1914.[4] He was appointed as officer in charge of the Masai Reserve in Kenya in 1920.[5] He was appointed Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in February 1922. He died in Sydney, Australian on 1 January 1925 while staying at the Wentworth Hotel.[2]