Sir Alfred Claud Hollis GCMG CBE (12 May 1874 – 22 November 1961[1][2][3]) was a British administrator who served as British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar between 1923 and 1929 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1930 and 1936 and author of a historical account of Spanish Trinidad.
Hollis was born in Highgate, London, and was privately educated in England, Switzerland and Germany.
[1] In 1930 Hollis was made governor of Trinidad, holding that post until his retirement in 1936.
[1] He came into conflict with Arthur Andrew Cipriani over the transfer of the electric works to the authority of the Port of Spain City Corporation.
[5] He also stole the Ngaji sacred drum of the Pokomo tribe and donated it to the British museum