Sir Alexander Murray Ashmore was the colonial secretary of British Guinea from 1901 to 1904 and the lieutenant-governor and colonial secretary of Ceylon from 1904 to 1906.
Sir Alexander Murray Ashmore (26 February 1855 - 7 December 1906) was the Colonial Secretary of British Guinea from 1901 to 1904 and the Lieutenant-Governor and Colonial Secretary of Ceylon from 1904 to 1906.
Alexander Murray Ashmore was born on 26 February 1855 in Paddington, Middlesex. On 31 August 1876 he joined the Ceylon Civil Service, arriving in Ceylon on 6 December. He served in a number of roles, including Police Magistrate Panwila (1878), Police Magistrate Kandy (1882), office assistant Western Province (1883), office assistant Central Province (1884), Government Agent Sabaragamuwa (1892), and principal assistant to Colonial Secretary of Ceylon 1892-94.
In December 1894 he was appointed the Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast and thirteen months later in 1896 the Receiver-General of Cyprus and then acting Colonial Secretary.
Ashmore married Dorothy Emily Augusta Shaw (? - 1952), daughter of Reverend Charles John Kenward Shaw and Julia Elizabeth Boteler, on 14 January 1897. They had two children, Dorothy Julia (b.1897), and Isabel Lilian (b.1899).
