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SAI International School
Class IX – English
Chapter – If I Were You

Lesson Notes

About the Author

Sir Douglas James Jardine KCMG OBE (13

October 1888 – 11 December 1946) was a
British colonial administrator, holding the
posts of Governor of North Borneo, Sierra

Leone and the Leeward Islands during his
career. Jardine was educated

at Westminster School and at Trinity
College, Cambridge, taking his BA

Hons. in Classics in 1910. Immediately after
graduating, he joined the colonial service

and was posted as assistant secretary to
the government of Cyprus from 1910–16.

In 1916, he became Secretary to Administration in British Somaliland,

a position he held until 1921. During this posting, he accompanied the
British Mission to the Coronation of Empress Zauditu of Abyssinia in
1917 and was awarded the OBE in 1918. In 1920, he was appointed

Officer in Charge H.Q. Services, Somaliland Expeditionary Force.
Three years later, he published The Mad Mullah of Somaliland, his book

on the Somali rebel leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the so-called
"Mad Mullah" who led an armed resistance against British, Italian, and

Ethiopian forces in Somalia.

In 1921, Jardine became Senior Assistant
Secretary, Nigerian Secretariat, a post he held until 1927.

In 1927, he was posted to Tanganyika Territory, beginning an eight-

year association with the country. He was Deputy Chief Secretary,