Director (colonial)
The title director has been used in colonial administrations not only as a bureaucratic rank and for the members of a board of directors, but also specifically, as in this article, for the head of the colonial administration of a territory under indirect rule by a chartered company, functionally equivalent to a governor.
Elsewhere, the same function went by the -in principle higher- title director-general, as in Demerara-Essequibo.Director, or rather its equivalent in the colonizer's language, was similarly used elsewhere:
- Directeur, in Caribbean possessions under Dutch WIC administration:
- *Aruba 1833–1848 only three incumbents, the first having been the last Commandeur, the last becoming the first gezaghebber
- *Curaçao 1634–1792 and once more 1828–1833, at other times various other titles were in use, mostly Governor
- Directeur of Dutch Bengal, from 1635 till the 1795 annexation to British India
