John Sturrock (colonial administrator)

Sir John Christian Ramsay Sturrock CMG (20 March 1875 – 13 February 1937) was a British colonial administrator.

[1][2][3] Sturrock was born in Madras, British India, the second son of John Sturrock CIE of Dundee, Scotland, and his wife, Regina Mary Dobbie, daughter of Gen. George Staple Dobbie.

[1][6][7] Sturrock acted as tutor to Daudi Cwa II of Buganda, a government appointment, and accompanied him to England in 1913.

[11] He made a good impression on Margery Perham, a visitor to Basutoland around the end of 1929.

[13] In 1935, Sturrock was replaced as Resident Commissioner by Edmund Charles Smith Richards.