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((Short description|British colonial administrator (1881–1948)))
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'''Sir Geoffry Alexander Stafford Northcote''', [[Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] [[KStJ]] (羅富國;9 February 1881 – 10 July 1948) was a British colonial administrator.

==Early life, education, and early colonial services career==
Northcote was the son of Reverend the Hon. Arthur Francis Northcote, fourth son of [[Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh]]. [[Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote]], was his uncle. He was educated at [[Blundell's School]] in [[Tiverton, Devon|Tiverton]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. He entered the Colonial Service in 1904 and served in [[Kenya]] (the [[East African Protectorate]]) from 1904 to 1927. He became Chief Secretary of [[Northern Rhodesia]] a year later, and served there until 1930. Afterwards, Northcote served as the Chief Secretary of [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]], until 1934 and as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of [[British Guiana]] from 1935 to 1937.

==Attack in Kenya==
When he arrived in Kenya in 1904 as a political attache, Northcote was posted to [[Nyanza Province]] which was then part of Uganda. In early 1905, he accompanied a punitive expedition to [[Kisii people|Kisii]] land in South Nyanza. The expedition carried out a month-long orgy of violence as punishment for raids the Kisii had carried out. In 1907, Northcote was deployed as the District Commissioner of Kisii. The Kisii, who nicknamed him ''Nyarigoti'', considered him their mortal enemy. On 18 January 1908, in the middle of a punitive expedition he was leading, Northcote was attacked with a spear and injured by a warrior called Otenyo. When Otenyo was caught, he was tried in public, dragged by a horse and executed in public by a firing squad. He was then beheaded and his body shipped to London. When Northcote learned of these attacks to revenge the attack on him, which ended up costing 160 lives, he wrote to his father, "It would take too long to describe the idiocy, obstinacy and want of military operations."<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000049243/otenyo-the-warrior-who-dared-a-white-dc?articleID=2000049243&story_title=otenyo-the-warrior-who-dared-a-white-dc&pageNo=1|title=Otenyo, the warrior who dared a white DC))</ref>

==Hong Kong Governorship==
[[File:Northcote Executive Council.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Geoffry Northcote (centre) and his secretaries; businessman [[Robert Kotewall]] is 2nd on the right]]
He became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong in 1937. During his tenure, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] broke out, and battles broke out throughout Mainland China. In order to safeguard the Colony, Northcote immediately declared Hong Kong a neutral zone. As the war proceeded, [[Guangzhou|Canton]] (Guangzhou) was occupied by the Japanese, causing a population boom as refugees rushed into Hong Kong. Northcote proposed more provision of housing and social services to serve the needs of the poor.<ref>((cite journal | last=Goodstadt | first=Leo F. | author-link= Leo Goodstadt |date= 2004 | title=The Rise and Fall of Social, Economic and Political Reforms in Hong Kong, 1930–1955 | journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch |volume= 44 | pages=63 ))</ref> Meanwhile, the Japanese army also started encroaching upon Sham Chun ([[Shenzhen]]), leading the Hong Kong government to adopt various measures to cope with the emergency, such as the construction of air-raid shelters and blackout practices. Northcote also withdrew the plan of expanding social services.

After taking six-months' leave in the UK, Northcote returned to Hong Kong in March 1941. Poor health forced him to retire that year, and he left when his appointment expired in September 1941.
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==Personal life==
Northcote married Edith Juliet Mary Adams on 27 October 1910; she was the daughter of [[James Adams (chaplain)|James Adams]]. The couple had three sons: Maxwell Adams Stafford, Arthur Geoffrey Stafford, and Amyas Henry Stafford. Northcote died in July 1948, aged 67.

==Honours==
* [[Order of St Michael and St George|C.M.G.]], 1931
* [[K.C.M.G.]], 1935.
* [[Venerable Order of St. John|K.St.J.]]

==Places named after him==
[[Northcote Close]], a road on [[Hong Kong Island]] and [[Hong Kong Institute of Education|Northcote Teachers' College]] (the premises is now occupied by [[Bonham Road Government Primary School]]) were named after him.

==See also==
* [[History of Hong Kong]]
* [[Earl of Iddesleigh]]
* [[Warrior Otenyo]]

==Notes==
((more citations needed|date=November 2015))
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==References==
* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ((Page needed |date=February 2013))
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