Sir Andrew Caldecott GCMG CBE KStJ FRAS FRSA (26 October 1884 – 14 July 1951) was a British colonial administrator.

[4] Andrew Caldecott studied at Uppingham School in Rutland and was awarded scholarships, enabling him to be admitted to Exeter College of the University of Oxford.

[3][5] Upon his graduation from college in 1907, Caldecott joined the Colonial Office in November of the same year and was posted to Malaya.

[7] In 1913, Caldecott was transferred to the Federal Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur and assumed the office of Deputy Controller of Labour.

[7] Caldecott went on leave from September 1922; he took up the ad hoc appointment as Malayan Commissioner at the British Empire Exhibition[5] held at Wembley Park in the United Kingdom in 1924 and 1925.

He was appointed to serve as Resident of Selangor,[6] until March 1932, when he was transferred back to the central government of FMS as Chief Secretary.

[8] During his time in Malaya, Caldecott earned a reputation for his ability to settle disputes between different ethnic groups which made him popular with all races, a rare feat for a colonial administrator given the diversity of the Straits Settlements population.

Caldecott called the promotion of Chinese civil servants to replace the European ones, a policy not realized until the signage of Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984.

[17] His tenure also saw the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, with more than 100,000 refugees from the Chinese Mainland flooding into Hong Kong to escape the conflict.

He was sent to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to examine the situation in the island closely and report on issues such as the governing structure, the representation of the minority communities, the franchise etc.

[18] Following her death, Caldecott married Evelyn May Palmer (1877-1974), widow of Dr John Robertson and daughter of the Rev.