About: William Morris Carter

William Morris Carter (1873–1960) was a British lawyer and colonial administrator. He served as registrar and judge in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika between 1902 and 1924.He tried without success to alienate lands held by Africans in Uganda so they could be organized as European plantations using native laborers.He chaired the 1925 Southern Rhodesia land commission and the 1932–1933 Kenya Land Commission, both of which alienated Africans from their land and allocated large areas for exclusively European settlement.He served on the Royal Commission on Palestine (1936–1937).