Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux KCMG CB (15 November 1870 – 2 July 1943) was an Indian Army officer and colonial administrator who became in turn governor of Uganda, Saint Helena and the Bahamas.
He entered the Bombay Political Department in 1898, and that year was appointed Assistant Resident at Berbera, on the Somali Coast.
[1] Cordeaux was appointed Vice-Consul at Berbera on 15 October 1900,[3] and upgraded to Consul on 15 November 1902,[4] serving until 1906, during which he was also Deputy Commissioner of British Somaliland (1904-1906).
[6] In 1923, concessions were granted to Sir Harry Cordeaux and Arthur Sands to cut the pine forest on New Providence.
[8] Speaking in Montreal, Cordeaux said that the liquor traffic was the reason for the island's healthy economy, including the ability to finance a 250,000-pound improvement to the harbor in Nassau.