Sir Donald Charles MacGillivray GCMG MBE (22 September 1906 – 24 December 1966) was a Scottish colonial administrator who served as the last British High Commissioner in Malaya.
However, Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos selected MacGillivray to serve as Deputy High Commissioner to General Sir Gerald Templer British High Commissioner in Malaya, where a state of emergency existed.
[1] Donald MacGillivray was the only colonial administrator who openly discussed Malaya's independence with the Malays.
MacGillivray also served as the Chairman of the State Council of British Colony of Kenya, which then had five European and six Non-European members.
[1] In 1960, he was appointed to the Monckton Commission to review the constitution of the Central African Federation.