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Theodore Samuel Adams

Theodore Samuel Adams

British colonial civil servant

Sir Theodore Samuel Adams (1885–1961) was a British colonial civil servant.[1]

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Adams graduated from All Souls College, University of Oxford and entered the British colonial civil service. His first post was as a cadet in the Federated Malay States 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.[1]

Adams played a part in the Selangor succession dispute.

References

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    The International Who's Who 1943-44. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 5.


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