George London (colonial administrator)

Sir George Ernest London, CMG (6 April 1889 – 1957) was a British colonial administrator.

The son of Henry London, George London was educated at Warwick School and Downing College, Cambridge.

He was for a time in the Federated Malay States before the First World War, during which he served with the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Royal Engineers.

[1] Returning to Malaya after the war, he rose to the rank of under-secretary to the government.

He then went to the Gold Coast as Colonial Secretary, stepping down in 1944.

The Acting Governor of the Gold Coast in British West Africa, Sir George London, inspecting members of the Accra Home Guard.