Sir Graeme Thomson G.C.M.G. K.C.B. (1875–1933) was a British civil servant in the Admiralty, who served as a colonial civil servant and then governor in several British colonies.

 

Graeme Thomson was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford and joined the civil service in 1900, being assigned to the Admiralty.[1] Some years before World War I, following the Agadir Crisis in 1911, he asked about the plans to get the British Expeditionary Force to France in the event of war and found they were scanty. He and Alfred Faulkner were then permitted to compile a register of ships suitable for requisitioning as transports, after they had completed their normal work each day. This they did, thus enabling the British Expeditionary Force rapidly.

 

After the war, government involvement in shipping declined and his post was abolished. He then joined the Colonial Service, being appointed as Secretary for Ceylon in 1919, then Governor of British Guiana in 1922[6] and of Nigeria in 1925, and finally of Ceylon in 1931.He died at Aden in his way home from there.

 

He had been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1928 New Years honours.