Archibald Ross Colquhoun

He was also acting Chief Magistrate of Southern Rhodesia between 24 July 1891 and 18 September 1891.

• Name — A.R. Colquhoun • Order — 1st • Office — Administrator of Southern Rhodesia • Term Start — 1 October 1890 • Term End — 10 September 1892 • Monarch — Queen Victoria • Predecessor — Office created • Successor — Leander Starr Jameson • Birth Name — Archibald Ross Colquhoun • Born — March 1848 • Birthplace — Cape Town, Cape Colony • Place of death — London, England • Spouse — Ethel Maud Cookson

Colquhoun was born at sea off the coast of South Africa in March 1848, and spent much of his life travelling.[2] In the 1880s he took part in several exploratory expeditions to Burma, Indo-China and southern China, for which he was awarded the 1884 Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.[3] He left for South Africa in 1889. After his term of office as Administrator in Southern Rhodesia he settled in the United Kingdom, but continued to travel. From 1900 to 1901, he and his new wife Ethel travelled in the Pacific —the Dutch East Indies, Borneo, Philippines, Japan – returning to England via Siberia. From 1902 to 1903, he travelled in the West Indies, Central America and the United States. During 1904 and 1905, he returned temporarily to Rhodesia. In 1913, Colquhoun inspected the Panama Canal construction work and carried out one last mission for the Royal Colonial Institute in South America before his death in London on 18 December 1914.[4]

Colquhoun married at St. Paul's church, Stafford, on 8 March 1900 to Ethel Maud Cookson (1874–1950), eldest daughter of Samuel Cookson, of Forebridge, Stafford.[5] After his death, his widow remarried John Tawse Jollie and settled in Southern Rhodesia, where she became the first female parliamentarian in the British overseas empire.

Archibald Ross Colquhoun is recorded with the occupation colonial administrator. Recorded as politician, journalist, engineer, writer and colonial administrator.