List of British Residents of Perak

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This is a list of the British Residents of Malay State of Perak, British Malaya.^[1]. The position of Resident was an administrative post. By the terms of the Pangkor Treaty, the Resident was an adviser to His Highness Sultan of Perak whose decisions were binding in all matters in administration except for Malays custom and religion. The British Resident post also equivalent with today's Menteri Besar post, where he was the chairman of the Perak State Council and the Sultan was the Lord President of the Council. The official residence for the Resident was at the Residency Hill, Taiping, while other residence also available in Kuala Kangsar and Ipoh. After the World war II, the position of the British Resident was replaced by a British Adviser, where a Malay appointed Menteri Besar was held. eventually, when Malaya achieved Independence, the British Adviser post was abolished.

British Residents	Portrait	Enter office	Left office
1 James Wheeler Woodford Birch		4 November 1874	2 November 1875
2 Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham		November 1875	March 1876
3James Guthrie Davidson		March 1876	February 1877
4 Sir Hugh Low		1877	1889
5 Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham		1889	1896
6 Sir William Hood Treacher		1896	1902
7 Sir John Pickersgill Rodger		1902	1904
8 Sir Ernest Woodford Birch		1904	1910
9 Henry Conway Belfield		1910	1912
10 William James Parke Hume		1912	1913
11 Sir Reginald George Watson		1913	1919
12 Sir George Maxwell		1919	1920
13 William James Parke Hume		1920	1921
14 Sir Cecil William Chase Parr		1921	1926
15 Oswald Francis Gerard Stonor		1926	1927
16 Henry Wagstaffe Thomson		1927	1929
17 Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane		1929	1930
18 Bertram Walter Elles		1931	1932
19 Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator		1933	1939
20 Marcus Rex		1939	1941
British Advisers	Portrait	Enter office	Left office
21Arthur Vincent Aston		1946	1948
22 James Innes Miller		1948	1951
23 Sir Dato’ Watherstone I. Blelloch		1951	1956