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Former Recorders and Chief Justices of the Straits Settlements, Colony of Singapore and State of Singapore Former Recorders of Penang  Sir Edmund Stanley  1808-1816  Sir George Andrew Cooper  1817  Sir Ralph Rice  1817-1824  Sir Francis Souper Rayley  1824  Sir Peter Benson Maxwell  1856-1866  Sir William Hackett  1866-1867 Former Recorders of Penang, Singapore, Malacca  Sir John Thomas Claridge  1827-1829  Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin  1833-1835  Sir Edward John Gambier  1835-1836  Sir William Norris  1836-1847  Sir Christopher Rawlinson    1847-1850  Sir William Jeffcott  1850-1855 Former Recorders of Singapore, Malacca  Sir Richard Bolton  McCausland   1856-1866  Sir Peter Benson Maxwell    1866-1867 Former Chief Justices of the Straits Settlements     Sir Peter Benson Maxwell 1867-1871  Sir Thomas Sidgreaves 1871-1886  Sir Theodore Thomas  Ford 1886-1890  Sir Edward Loughlin  O'Malley 1890-1892  Sir Elliot Bovill 1892-1893  Sir John Winfield Bonser 1893  Sir William Henry Lionel  Cox 1893-1906  Sir William Hyndman Jones 1906-1914  Sir John Alexander  Strachey Buckmill 1914-1920    Sir Gerald Aubrey  Goodman  (died before  assuming office) 1920    Sir Walter Sydney  Shaw 1921-1925  Sir James William  Murison 1925-1933  Sir Walter Clarence  Huggard 1933-1936  Sir Percy Alexander  McElwaine 1936-1946 Former Chief Justices of the Colony of Singapore  Cecil William Victor  Carey (Acting CJ)  1946  Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley  1946-1955  Sir John Whyatt  1955-1958  Sir Alan EP Rose KCMG  1959 Former Chief Justices of the State of Singapore  Sir Alan EP Rose KCMG      1959-1963  Wee Chong Jin 1963-1965

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