Alfred Claud Hollis

Sir Alfred Claud Hollis (12 May 1874 – 22 November 1961 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar between 1923 and 1929 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1930 and 1936 and author of a historical account of Spanish Trinidad.

Education and career Hollis was born in Highgate, London, and was privately educated in England, Switzerland and Germany. He wrote pioneering works on the Maasai (1905) and the Nandi people (1908). Between 1901 and 1907, he worked as Secretary to the East Africa Protectorate administration, and he was Secretary for Native Affairs between 1907 and 1913. He also stole the Ngaji sacred drum of the Pokomo tribe and donated it to the British Museum.