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List of heads of government of the Raj of Sarawak

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This article lists the heads of government of the Raj of Sarawak from 1843 to 1946, when the Raj of Sarawak was ceded to the United Kingdom and became the Crown Colony of Sarawak.

Flag of the Raj of Sarawak from 1870 to 1946.

Map of the Raj of Sarawak, 1920s.

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"The Straits Times, 9 April 1941, Page 10". Retrieved 25 September 2018.

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No.	Name	Term	Notes
Chief Minister
1	Thomas Williamson	1843–1846
Resident
2	Arthur Chichester Crookshank	1863–1873
Chairman of the Committee of Administration
3	William Maunder Crocker	1875–1880
4	Francis Richard Ord Maxwell	1881–1895	Sarawak was made a British protectorate in 1888
5	Charles Agar Bampfylde	1896–1903
6	Henry FitzGibbon Deshon	1903–1904
7	Sir Percy Francis Cunynghame	1904–1909
8	Harry Robert Arbuthnot Day	1909–1910
9	Ivone Kirkpatrick-Caldecott	1910–1915
10	Arthur Bartlett Ward	1915–1923
Chief Secretary and Chairman of the Committee of Administration
11	John Coney Moulton	1923–1926
12	Harold Brooke Crocker	1927–1928
13	Charles Vyner Brooke	1928–1930	1st time. Simultaneously reigned as the White Rajah
14	Sir Francis Farrington Boult	1930
	James Colin Swayne	1930	1st time, acting
(13)	Charles Vyner Brooke	1930–1931	2nd time. Simultaneously reigned as the White Rajah
	James Colin Swayne	1931–1932	2nd time, acting
15	Charles Macaskie	1932–1934	Government secretary
(13)	Charles Vyner Brooke	1934–1937	3rd time. Simultaneously reigned as the White Rajah
16	Edward Parnell	1937–1939
17	John Beville Archer	1939–1941	1st time
18	Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark	May 1941 – 25 December 1941	On 31 March 1941, Le Gros Clark announced the decision of the White Rajah, Charles Vyner Brooke, to introduce a democratic constitution.^[1] Japanese prisoner December 1941 – 6 July 1945 during the Japanese occupation of British Borneo, executed two months before the Surrender of Japan
	Vacant	25 December 1941 – 1946
(17)	John Beville Archer	1946 – 1 July 1946	2nd time. Japanese prisoner December 1941 – 1945 during the Japanese occupation of British Borneo. The first and only officeholder following the Borneo campaign

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