Deputy Magistrate
When the Caprivi Strip (formerly German Barotse- or Zambezi-land; in present Namibia) which had been administered by British Military Administrators since 21 September 1914 formally came under the administration of the British High Commissioners for Southern Africa, the last Military Administrator stayed on as the first of only two Deputy magistrates, the highest British colonial official actually resident in the Strip:
- 1 January 1921 - c.1924 H. Neale
- 1940 - 1951 Lyall French Trollope
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