British colonial administrators of Aden[1][2] Portrait Name Term of office Political Agents Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Indian Navy 1839 1854 Major-General James Outram 1854 1856 Political Residents Colonel William Marcus Coghlan 1854 1862 Major General R. W. Honner 1862 1862 Colonel William Marcus Coghlan 1862 1863 Major William Merewether 1863 1867 Major General Sir Edward Russell 1867 1870 Major General Charles William Tremenheere 1870 1872 Brigadier-General John Schneider 1872 1877 Brigadier-General Francis Adam Ellis Loch 1877 1882 Brigadier-General James Blair 1882 1885 Brigadier-General Adam George Forbes Hogg 1890 1890 Brigadier-General John Jopp 1890 1895 Brigadier-General Charles Alexander Cunningham 1895 1899 Brigadier-General Garratt O'Moore Creagh 1899 1901 Brigadier-General Pelham James Maitland 1901 1904 Major-General Harry Macan Mason 1904 1906 Major-General Ernest de Brath 1906 1910 Brigadier-General James Alexander Bell 1910 1914 Brigadier-General Charles Henry Uvedale Price 1915 1915 Major-General James Marshall Stewart 1916 1920 Major-General Thomas Edwin Scott 1920 1925 Major-General John Henry Keith Stewart 1925 1928 Lieutenant-Colonel George Stewart Symes 1928 1930 Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Rawdon Reilly 1930 1932 Chief Commissioner Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Rawdon Reilly 1932 1937 Governors Sir Bernard Reilly 1937 1940 Sir John Hathorn Hall 1940 1944 Sir Reginald Champion 1944 1951 Sir Tom Hickinbotham 1951 1956 Sir William Luce 1956 1960 Sir Charles Johnston 1960 1963 High Commissioners Sir Kennedy Trevaskis 1963 1965 Sir Richard Turnbull 1965 1967 Sir Humphrey Trevelyan 1967 1967