CLIFFORD, SIR HUGH, G.C.M.G.; G.B.E. (1866– ), British colonial governor, son of Maj.-Gen. Sir H. H. Clifford, V.C., K.C.M.G., was born in London on March 5, 1866, and was educated at Woburn Park. In 1883 Clifford passed into the Malay States Civil Service, and, after executing a special mission towards the sultan of Pahang in 1887, became the governor's agent there. After filling several other administrative posts, he returned to Pahang as British resident during the years Four years later he became colonial secretary at Trinidad, and was transferred in the same capacity to Ceylon in 1907, where he remained until his appointment as governor of the Gold Coast in 1912. He was governor of Nigeria, 1919-25; Ceylon, 1925-7; and the Straits Settlements, 1927-9. Apart from his career in the colonial service, Sir Hugh Clifford has made his name as a writer of distinction, his stories of the Malay Peninsula being among the best of his works of fiction. He married as his second wife the novelist, Mrs. Henry de la Pasture. Among his numerous works may be mentioned the following: Studies in Brown Hu manity (1898) ; Bush-Whacking (190i); Malayan Monochromes (1913) and The Further Side of Silence (1916). Sir Hugh has also compiled with Sir Frank Swettenham a Dictionary of the Malay Language and contributed to this edition of the Encyclo pcedia Britannica.