Singapore Governor Sir Arthur Henderson Young presents War Honours in Singapore. 1914-1918. Captain Sir Arthur Henderson Young, GCMG KBE (1854 – 20 October 1938) was a British colonial administrator. He was the son of Colonel Keith Young. For six months in 1895, and for lesser periods in 1898, 1900, and 1904, Young administered the Government of Cyprus. In 1902, he went on a special mission to St. Vincent in the West Indies. He was posted as the Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements in 1906 until he became the British High Commissioner in Malaya and Governor of the Straits Settlements.
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