| 1826 - 1896, Administration was from Straits Settlements | |
| Residents-general in the Federated Malay States (1896-1911) | |
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Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham 1896-1901 |
| Sir William Hood Treacher 1902-1904 |
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| Sir William Thomas Taylor 1905-1910 |
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| Sir Arthur Henderson Young 1910-1911 |
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| Chief secretaries of the Federated Malay States (1911-1936) | |
| Sir Edward Lewis Brockman 1911-1920 |
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| Sir (William) George Maxwell 1920-1926 |
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| Sir William Peel 1926-1930 |
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| Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane 1930-1932 |
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| Andrew Caldecott 1932-1934 |
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| Malcolm Bond Shelley 1934-1935 |
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| Marcus Rex 1935-1936 |
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| Federal secretaries of the Federated Malay States (1936-1942) | |
| Christopher Dominic Ahearne 1936-1939 |
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| Hugh Fraser 1939-1942 |
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| Governor of the Union of Malaya (1946-1948) | |
| Sir (Gerard) Edward James Gent (1895-1948) 1946-1948 |
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| High commissioners of the Federation of Malaya (1948-1957) | |
| Sir (Gerard) Edward James Gent 1948 |
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Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney 1948-1951 |
| Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer 1952-1954 |
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| Sir Donald Charles MacGillivray 1954-1957 |
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