Director (colonial)
The title director has been used in colonial administrations not only as a bureaucratic rank and for the members of a board of directors, but also specifically, as in this article, for the head of the colonial administration of a territory (e.g. protectorate) under indirect rule by a chartered company, functionally equivalent to a governor.
Elsewhere, the same function went by the - in principle higher - title , as in Demerara-Essequibo (Dutch Guyana).
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British colonies[]
- From 5 June 1885 the (under the United African Company) was administered by Sir George Goldie (1846–1925), until it became on, 10 July 1886, the (under the Royal Niger Company, which appointed two consecutive governors, the second being the same Sir George Goldie).
- The short-lived (1613–1623) English trading post at Hirado (Japan) had a single director: Richard Cocks
Other colonial powers[]
Director, or rather its equivalent in the colonizer's language, was similarly used elsewhere:
- Directeur, in Caribbean possessions under Dutch WIC (West India Company) administration:
- Directeur of Dutch Bengal (a few factories in Dutch India), from 1635 (until 1655, however, filled by the governors of Coromandel) until the 1795 annexation to British India
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