Geoffrey Edmund Cator

Infobox President
name =Geoffrey Edmund Cator
honorific-suffix =
CMG


image_size =
order =2nd British Resident of Labuan
term_start =February 1917
term_end =1918
predecessor =M. S. H. McArthur
successor ="unknown"
order2 =19th British Resident of Perak
term_start2 =1933
term_end2 =1939
predecessor2 =Bertram Walter Elles
successor2 =Marcus Rex
birth_date2 =1884
order3 =15th British Resident of Selangor
term_start3 =July 1932
term_end3 =1933
predecessor3 =James Lornie
successor3 =George Ernest London
birth_date =1884
birth_place =
death_date =1973
death_place =Wiltshire, England
spouse = Elizabeth Margaret Wynne Mostyn
religion =Christian
constituency =
party =
languagesspoken =English

Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator C.M.G. was born in 1884. Sir Geoffrey was the son of Ronert Cator of Bath. Married with Elizabeth Margaret Wynne Mostyn in 1922, he had a son, Peter John Cator (26 October 1924 - 22 January 2006) and daughter Rosemary Ann Cator. Sir Geoffrey died in 1973 at Lacock, Wiltshire, England.

Career

Sir Geoffrey joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1907 until 1939. He was the British Resident of Brunei from May 1916 until March 1921. Later he was posted as the Superintendent of Government Monopolies of Straits Settlements, the District Officer of Klang and also member of the Legislative Council of Federated Malay States. He was the British Resident of Selangor (1932-1933) and British Resident of Perak (1933-1939). His last post was the head of the Malay States Information Agency in London. He was knighted in 1936 with CMG. "Cator Avenue" in Taiping was named after him.

Contributions

During the WWII, Sir Geoffrey also responsible for planning the war strategy, initially he published some written reviews, when Malaya was ambushed by the Japanese. His publications were,

*Malaya's war effort, Asiatic reviews (1940)
*Malaya: The first year, Asiatic review (1940)
*Course of Japanese invasion of Malaya, Crown colonist (February 1942)
*Malaya and the Japanese attack, Asiatic review (1942)
*Malaya: a retrospect, Asiatic review (1942)

References

* [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Alan-G-Freer/ODT11-0962.html Cator Family]
* [http://www.william1.co.uk/w19.html Cator Family]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p1801.htm#i18008 Cator Family Tree]
* [http://www.viweb.freehosting.net/HMSMalaya.htm Victoria Institution]
* [http://compassweb.arkib.gov.my/search_details.php?id=2001/0031538 National Archive of Malaysia]
*The Times Newspaper, London, U.K., 25 January 2006. Title: Hereinafter cited as The Times.
*Geoffrey C Gunn, New World Hegemony in the Malay World