Colonial Secretary of Ceylon

Colonial Secretary of Ceylon
Member of	the Executive Council
Appointer	Governor of British Ceylon
Formation	12 October 1798
First holder	Hugh Cleghorn
Abolished	20th Century

The Colonial Secretary of Ceylon was one of six offices that held a seat in the Executive Council of Ceylon.^[1]^[2]

List of Colonial Secretaries

Data based on:

John Ferguson, Ceylon in the "jubilee Year"., J. Haddon and Co.,1887^[3]
Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources, Plâté limited, 1924^[4]

#	Colonial Secretary	Took office	Left office	Appointed by
1	Hugh Cleghorn	12 October 1798	1800	Frederick North
-	William Boyd	January 1800	1801
2	Robert Arbuthnot	10 September 1801	1806
3	John Rodney	3 September 1806	1833	Thomas Maitland
4	Philip Anstruther	1 May 1833	1845	Robert Wilmot-Horton
5	James Emerson Tennent	29 November 1845	1851	Colin Campbell
6	Charles Justin MacCarthy	2 January 1851	1860	George Byng
7	W. C. Gibson	10 August 1860	1869	Charles Edmund Wilkinson
8	Henry Turner Irving	4 June 1869	1873	Hercules Robinson
10	Arthur Birch	3 June 1873	1878	William Henry Gregory
11	John Douglas	18 August 1878	1885	James Robert Longden
12	Cecil Clementi Smith	17 November 1885	1887	Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
13	Edward Noël Walker	10 November 1887	1901	Arthur Hamilton-Gordon
14	Everard im Thurn	18 June 1901	1904	Joseph West Ridgeway
15	Alexander Murray Ashmore	10 September 1904	7 December 1906	Henry Arthur Blake
	Hugh Clifford	3 May 1907		Henry Arthur Blake
-	Leonard William Booth	1911		Henry McCallum
	Reginald Edward Stubbs	1913	1919	Reginald Edward Stubbs
	Cecil Clementi	1922	1925	William Manning
	Bernard Henry Bourdillon	1929	1932	Herbert Stanley