monarch predecessor successor death_date death_place office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
queen victoria first officeholder francis james newton 29 march 1902 london resident commissioner of bechuanaland 1837 1885 sidney godolphin alexander shippard
 1895 sidney shippard
sidney godolphin alexander shippard

sir sidney godolphin alexander shippard , kcmg -lrb- 1837 -- 29 march 1902 -rrb- , was a british barrister and colonial administrator , who served as resident commissioner of the bechuanaland protectorate 1885 -- 1895 .
