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British colonial administrator
Norman Rowlstone JarrettCMG
British Resident of Selangor
In office
1941–1941
Preceded byGeorge Montgomery Kidd 
Succeeded byOffice discontinued
British Advisor of Terengganu
In office
1933–1934
Preceded byCharles Cuthbert Brown
Succeeded byJohn Erskine Kempe 
British Advisor of Terengganu
In office
1936–1937
Preceded byJohn Erskine Kempe 
Succeeded byPatrick Alexander Bruce McKerron
Personal details
Born1889
Died21 June 1982
Spouse Doris Elaine Griffith ​ ​(m. 1910)​  Violet Wilkinson  ​(m. 1939)​
OccupationColonial Administrator

Norman Rowlstone Jarrett CMG (1889 – 21 June 1982) was a British colonial administrator in Malaya.

Career

Norman Rowlstone Jarrett was born in 1889, only son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Jarrett of Brighton, and joined the Malay civil service as a cadet in 1912. In 1915, he was appointed assistant Controller of Labour in Penang, and then served in various positions including assistant District Officer, Klang (1917), District Officer, Kuala Langat (1922), District Officer, Ulu Selangor (1925), assistant Controller of Labour (1925), District Officer, Krian (1931), and District Officer Klang (1933).

From 1933-34, he was acting British Adviser to Terengganu, and again from 1936-37, having been appointed to act as Under Secretary of the Federated Malay States in 1934.

In 1939, he went to Singapore to take up the position of Food Controller for the colony. In the same year he was also appointed Comptroller of Customs for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, and was sworn in as a member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements. He introduced measures to control the supply and price of food during the wartime administration to ensure adequate supply and to prevent profiteering.

In 1941, he went to Kuala Lumpur and acted as the last British Resident of Selangor. From 1942 to 1945, during the Second World War, he was interned as POW in Changi and Sime Road camps in Singapore, and was the camp's quartermaster. After the war he returned to England, and from 1946 to 1953 was the Secretary of the Association of British Malaya in London.

Personal life and death

Jarrett married twice; to Doris Elaine Griffith in 1916, and to Violet Wilkinson in 1939. He died on 21 June 1982, aged 93.

Honours

Jarrett was appointed CMG in the 1946 New Year Honours.

References

  1. "Untitled". Malaya Tribune. 16 February 1915. p. 8.
  2. "F.M.S. Appointments". The Straits Budget. 14 December 1917. p. 10.
  3. "F.M.S. Appointments". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 24 August 1922. p. 6.
  4. "F.M.S. Government Appointments". The Straits Times. 16 June 1925. p. 10.
  5. "Untitled". The Straits Times. 18 April 1925. p. 8.
  6. "Untitled". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 8 April 1931. p. 11.
  7. ^ "Untitled". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 25 May 1933. p. 9.
  8. "Untitled". Malaya Tribune. 3 March 1934. p. 10.
  9. ^ "Civilian Internment : Quartermaster's records". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  10. "Food Controller". The Straits Times. 15 July 1939. p. 12.
  11. "Malayan Civil Service". The Straits Times. 10 April 1939. p. 10.
  12. "New Legislative Councillors Sworn In Today". The Straits Times. 31 July 1939. p. 12.
  13. "Food Controller to Explain Scheme". The Straits Times. 8 December 1939. p. 10.
  14. "Mr. N. R. Jarrett as Resident, Selangor". Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle. 6 August 1941. p. 7.
  15. "Wedding at Penang". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 23 June 1916. p. 10.
  16. "Social and Personal". Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle. 19 September 1939. p. 5.
  17. "Deaths". Times. 24 June 1982. p. 24.
  18. "The New Year's Honours". Times. 1 January 1946. p. 4.
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