Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood GBE KCMG (28 May 1893 – 20 June 1967) was a British colonial administrator and governor.

[1] Blood served with the 4th Royal Scots Fusiliers during World War I, where he also saw action in the military campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula.

[1] Blood initially wanted to study for the Episcopalian ministry but changed his mind and in 1920 he entered the Ceylon Civil Service.

His administration was responsible for drawing up plans of how the Colonial Development and Welfare Act funds were to be spent.

Blood also established the Bathurst Town Council in 1946, introducing a new constitution for direct elections later that year.