Editing Basutoland (section)

==British Resident Commissioners==
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!rowspan="2"|Incumbent
!colspan="2"|Tenure
!rowspan="2" width=50% |Notes
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!Took office
!Left office
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|Sir [[Marshal James Clarke]]
|18 March 1884
|18 September 1894
|Afterwards Resident Commissioner in [[Zulu Kingdom|Zululand]], 1894
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|[[Godfrey Yeatman Lagden]]
|18 September 1894
|1895
|
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|Sir [[Herbert Cecil Sloley]]
|1895
|
|
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|[[Godfrey Yeatman Lagden]]
|1895
|1901
|
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|Sir [[Herbert Cecil Sloley]]
|1902
|1903
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|James MacGregor
|1913
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| Sir [[Herbert Cecil Sloley]]
| 1913 
| 1916
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| [[Robert Thorne Coryndon]]
| 1916
| 1917
|Afterwards [[Governor of Uganda]], 1918
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|[[Edward Garraway|Sir Edward Charles Frederick Garraway]]
| 1917 
| Apr 1926
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| [[John Christian Ramsay Sturrock]]
| Apr 1926 
| Mar 1935
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| Sir [[Edmund Charles Smith Richards]]
| Mar 1935 
| Aug 1942
| Afterwards [[Governor of Nyasaland]], 1942
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| Sir [[Charles Noble Arden-Clarke]]
| Aug 1942
| Nov 1946
| Afterwards [[Crown Colony of Sarawak#List of Governors of the Crown Colony of Sarawak|Governor of Sarawak]], 1946
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| [[Aubrey Denzil Forsyth-Thompson]]
| Nov 1946 
| 24 October 1951
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| [[Edwin Porter Arrowsmith]]
| 24 October 1951 
| Sep 1956
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| [[Alan Geoffrey Tunstal Chaplin]]
| Sep 1956 
| 1961
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| [[Alexander Falconer Giles]]
| 1961 
| 30 April 1965
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|}