Sir Arthur Selborne Jelf

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Sir Arthur Selborne Jelf

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1927
6 1/4 in. x 4 1/8 in. (159 mm x 106 mm) image size
Commissioned, 1927
Photographs Collection
NPG x168600

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  • Walter Stoneman (1876-1958), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 18527 portraits, Sitter in 8 portraits.

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Lt Col AMF Jelf (Mike)

12 June 2018, 22:27

Arthur Jelf was the eldest son of Canon George Edward Jelf and was born in 1876. He was educated at Marlborough College and Oxford. Sir Arthur Jelf's career in the Malay Civil Service began in 1899 and for the next 26 years until 1925 he undertook a series of interesting and demanding administrative appointments the length and breadth of the peninsular of the Federated Malay States and in Singapore. He was a District Officer in a number of locations in a FMS that was without main roads, railways and where a lot of the travelling was done by coastal craft. He was a founding member of the FMS Volunteer Rifles in 1902 and served on and off for many years reaching the rank of Captain. Service included working for MI5 in London at the end of the Great War.

In 1925 when head of Political Intelligence for the Colony, he was selected as Colonial Secretary of Jamaica, soon discovering that he would undertake long periods of time acting as Governor General until he retired in 1935. He was made CMG in 1926 and Knighted in 1932 for services to the Colonies over many years.

During World War II he worked once again in Intelligence until ill-health and organisational changes encouraged hi final retirement aged 67 years. He was Mayor of Hythe in 1937. He was married twice; his first wife Blanche Connell who died aged 38 in 1917 was the mother of their four children. He married secondly in 1923 to Evelyn Hardcastle who died in Hythe in 1972. Sir Arthur Jelf died aged 71 years in 1947.