{{short description|Colonial Administrator}} {{use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Sir Geoffrey Cator | honorific_suffix = CMG | image = Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator.jpg | order = 19th British Resident of Perak | term_start = 1933 | term_end = 1939 | monarch = George V <br> Edward VIII <br> George VI | predecessor = Bertram Walter Elles | successor = Marcus Rex | order2 = 2nd British Resident of Labuan | term_start2 = February 1917 | term_end2 = 1918 | predecessor2 = Malcolm McArthur | successor2 = ''unknown'' | order1 = 15th British Resident of Selangor | term_start1 = July 1932 | term_end1 = 1933 | predecessor1 = James Lornie | successor1 = George Ernest London | office3 = 6th British Resident to Brunei | term_start3 = 1916 | term_end3 = 1921 | predecessor3 = Ernest Barton Maundrell | successor3 = Lucien Allen Arthur | birth_date = 14 August 1884 | birth_place = Lacock, Wiltshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1973|4|21|1884|8|14|df=y}} | death_place = Hindhead, Surrey, England<ref>{{cite news|title=Deaths|work=The Times|date=23 April 1973|page=12}}</ref> | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Margaret Wynne Mostyn|1922|1967|end=d.}}<ref name=who/> | father = Robert Cator<ref name=who/> | mother = Evelyn Susan Sotheron Estcourt<ref name=who/> | occupation = Colonial administrator | caption = Cator in c.1939 }}
'''Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (14 August 1884 – 21 April 1973)<ref name=who>{{cite dictionary|entry-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-153058|entry=Cator, Sir Geoffrey|title=Who was Who|date=1 December 2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153058 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref> was a British administrator in the Malayan Civil Service.
==Biography==
Cator was born in Lacock, Wiltshire,<ref>''1891 England Census''</ref> the son of brewer Robert Cator of Bath and Evelyn Susan Sotheron Estcourt.<ref name=who/><ref>''Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916''</ref> He married Elizabeth Margaret Wynne Mostyn in 1922; they had a son, Peter John Cator (26 October 1924 – 22 January 2006) and daughter Rosemary Ann Cator.<ref name=who/> Initially assigned to Kuala Kangsar, he held the position of Collector of Land Revenue and frequently participated in football games with the Malay College students, a sport he possessed some skill in.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Welcome to IpohWorld.org Database Search Engine sponsored by iosc.net- Admin System |url=https://db.ipohworld.org/view/id/3451 |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=db.ipohworld.org}}</ref> thumb|Jalan Cator in Brunei, 2023 Sir Geoffrey joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1907<ref>{{london gazette|issue=28074|page=7309|date=1 November 1907}}</ref> 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 made a Knight Bachelor in the 1946 New Year Honours.<ref>{{london gazette|issue=37407|page=2|date=28 December 1945}}</ref> He had previously been awarded the CMG in 1936.<ref>{{london gazette|supp=y|issue=34238|page=5|date=31 December 1935}}</ref>
1948 saw his retirement as a Malayan Agent. One of his responsibilities in that position was to see Sybil Kathigasu in the hospital following the Second World War; he accomplished this duty and did so with his wife, Lizzy. Using modern medicine, especially quinine, to combat malaria was one of his main concerns while he was in Perak. He died in England, 1973.<ref name=":0" />
==Contributions== During the World War II, 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 Review'' (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)
== Namesakes == *Cator Avenue in Taiping was named after him. *A street in Pusat Bandar (Bandar Seri Begawan) is named after him, Jalan Cator.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Atiyah |first=Jeremy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uRX5zMsCeNgC&dq=Jalan+Cator+Brunei&pg=PA76 |title=Southeast Asia |date=2002 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=978-1-85828-893-2 |pages=76 |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722232816/http://compassweb.arkib.gov.my/search_details.php?id=2001%2F0031538 National Archive of Malaysia] *Geoffrey C. Gunn, ''New World Hegemony in the Malay World''
{{s-start}} {{s-dip}} {{s-bef | before = Malcolm McArthur }} {{s-ttl | title = British Resident of Labuan | years = 1917 – 1918 }} {{s-vac|unknown}} {{s-bef | before = James Lornie }} {{s-ttl | title = British Resident of Selangor | years = 1932 – 1933 }} {{s-aft | after = George Ernest London }} {{s-bef | before = Bertram Walter Elles }} {{s-ttl | title = British Resident of Perak | years = 1933 – 1939 }} {{s-aft | after = Marcus Rex }} {{s-bef | before = Ernest Barton Maundrell }} {{s-ttl | title = British Resident to Brunei | years = 1916–1921 }} {{s-aft | after = Lucien Allen Arthur }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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