Tanganyika Governors

At the end of 1916, Mr (later Sir) Horace Byatt was appointed Administrator over the northern half of the country controlled by Britain.

Administrators

1916-20 Sir Horace Archer Byatt

Governors

1920-24 Sir Horace Archer Byatt

1925-31 Sir Donald Charles Cameron

1931-34 Lieut-Col Sir G.S.Symes

1934-38 Sir H MacMichael

1938-41 Sir Mark A. Young

1941-45 Sir Wilfred E.F. Jackson

1945-49 Sir William D Battershill

1949-58 Sir Edward Francis Twining

1958-61 Sir Richard Turnbull

In January 1919, his purview was extended to the whole of Tanganyika. Eighteen months later British administration took on a more formal basis by the promulgation of the Tanganyika Order in Council, in terms of which Byatt’s title was changed to that of Governor. He was empowered to make ordinances ‘for the good government of the country’.

... Sir Donald Cameron, who succeeded Byatt in 1925. He was a different man, and indeed believed that his predecessor had failed to give a lead to the country or lay down any clear lines of policy.

Sir Richard Turnbull summoned Julius Nyerere and asked him to form a government