Resident Commissioner to supervise the affairs of the British South Africa Company. Reporting to the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, who in turn reported to the Colonial Office in London, the resident commissioner's function was to protect African interests and to prevent the company from inducing another expensive rebellion. 5 December 1898 – 1 April 1905: Sir Marshal James Clarke 1 April 1905 – 1 April 1908: Richard Chester-Master 1 April 1908 – 1 April 1911: James George Fair 1 April 1911 – 1 April 1915: Robert Burns-Begg 1 April 1915 – 1 April 1918: Herbert James Stanley 1 April 1918 – 1 October 1923: Crawford Douglas Douglas-Jones References Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office 1894-1964 by F.M.G. Willson and G.C. Passmore, assisted by Margaret T. Mitchell (Source Book No. 3, Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1966) Bibliography Southern Rhodesia Administrators British South Africa Company Politics of Southern Rhodesia before 1923 Rhodesia-related lists