Title: Enigmatic proconsul
Description: Sir Philip Mitchell was Governor of Uganda, Governor of Fiji, High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, and Governor of Kenya. During the Second World War he administered the former Italian territories in East Africa. Throughout his career he was at the forefront of educational, economic, political and administrative reform, laying emphasis on good human relations and race relations in multi-racial and multi-ethnic communities.
Subjects: Biography, Colonial administrators, History
Places: East Africa, Fiji, Great Britain
People: Philip Euen Mitchell Sir (1890-1964)