title: List of British Residents of Perak
text: # List of British Residents of Perak
  
  This is a list of the British Residents of Malay State of Perak, British Malaya. The position of Resident was an administrative post. By the terms of the Pangkor Treaty, the Resident was an adviser to His Highness Sultan of Perak whose decisions were binding in all matters in administration except for Malay customs and religion. The British Resident post is also equivalent with today's Menteri Besar post, where he was the chairman of the Perak State Council and the Sultan was the Lord President of the Council. The official residence for the Resident was at the Residency Hill, Taiping. Other residences were also available in Kuala Kangsar and Ipoh. After World War II, the position of British Resident was replaced by a British Adviser. Eventually, when Malaya achieved Independence, the British Adviser post was abolished.
  
  | British Resident | Honour | Entered office | Left office |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1. James Wheeler Woodford Birch | none | 4 November 1874 | 2 November 1875 |
  | 2. Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham | GCMG, CH | 5 November 1875 | March 1876 |
  | 3. James Guthrie Davidson | none | 11 April 1876 | 31 March 1877 |
  | 4. Sir Hugh Low | GCMG, KCMG, CMG | 1 April 1877 | 31 May 1889 |
  | 5. Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham | GCMG, CH | 1 June 1889 | 30 June 1896 |
  | 6. Sir William Hood Treacher | KCMG | 1 July 1896 | 12 December 1901 |
  | 7. Sir John Pickersgill Rodger | KCMG, CMG | 13 December 1901 | 9 February 1904 |
  | 8. Sir Ernest Woodford Birch | KCMG, CMG | 10 February 1904 | 5 March 1911 |
  | 9. Sir Henry Conway Belfield | KCMG, CMG, JP | 6 March 1911 | 15 December 1911 |
  | 10. Oliver Marks | | 15 December 1911 | 9 August 1912 |
  | 11. Colonel William James Parke Hume | CMG | 9 August 1912 | 12 August 1912 |
  | 12. Sir Reginald George Watson | CMG | 12 August 1912 | 17 September 1919 |
  | 13. Sir William George Maxwell (acting to 19 December 1919) | KBE, CMG | 17 September 1919 | 12 September 1920 |
  | 14. Colonel William James Parke Hume (acting for Maxwell to 12 September 1921) | CMG | 29 June 1920 | 13 July 1921 |
  | 15. Sir Cecil William Chase Parr | CMG, OBE | 14 July 1921 | 20 December 1925 |
  | 16. Oswald Francis Gerard Stonor | | 20 December 1925 | 6 June 1927 |
  | 17. Henry Wagstaffe Thomson | | 6 June 1927 | 1929 |
  | 18. Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane | CMG | 1929 | 1930 |
  | 19. Bertram Walter Elles | none | 1931 | 1932 |
  | 20. Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator | CMG | 1933 | 1939 |
  | 21. Marcus Rex | CMG | 1939 | 1941 |
  | 22. Arthur Vincent Aston | CMG, MC | 1946 | 1948 |
  | 23. James Innes Miller | | 1948 | 1951 |
  | 24. Edwin Cyril Geddes Barrett (acting to Blelloch) | CMG | 1953 | 1954 |
  | 25. Dato’ Ian Blelloch | CMG | 1951 | 1956 |
  