Geoffrey Archer (colonial administrator)

Sir Geoffrey Archer KCMG
Commissioner of British Somaliland
In office May 1914 – October 1919
Preceded by	Horace Archer Byatt
Governor of British Somaliland
In office October 1919 – 17 August 1922
Succeeded by	Gerald Henry Summers
Governor of Uganda
In office 1922–1925
Preceded by	Robert Coryndon
Succeeded by	William Gowers
Governor-General of Sudan
In office 5 January 1925 – 6 July 1926
Preceded by	Lee Stack
Succeeded by	John Maffey
Personal details
Born	4 July 1882[1] Kensington, London, England[2]
Died	1 May 1964(1964-05-01) (aged 81) Cannes, France

Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer KCMG (4 July 1882 – 1 May 1964) was an English ornithologist, big game hunter and colonial official. He was Commissioner and then Governor of British Somaliland between 1913 and 1922, and was responsible for finally quelling the twenty-year-long Dervish resistance.

From 1922 to 1925, Archer was appointed Governor of Uganda. He later served as Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1925 and 1926. In the Sudan, Archer paid a formal but friendly visit to Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, son of the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad, whose forces had killed General Gordon in 1885. Abd al-Rahman was leader of the neo-Mahdists in Sudan. Archer was eventually forced to resign due to the resultant flap, and spent the remainder of his career organising salt works in India.