Sir Shenton Whitelegge Thomas, KCMG (10 October 1879) was a British colonial administrator Shenton Thomas became governor of Nyasaland in 1929, today's Malawi, from 1932 to 1934 the gold coast, and from 1934 to 1942, and then again in 1945/46 the last governor of the Straits Settlements on the Malay Peninsula. Together with Airmarschall Robert Brooke-Popham and Generalleutnant Arthur Percival, he was responsible for the defense of the peninsula and in particular for Singapore. At the time of the first Japanese attacks at the beginning of December 1941 he resided with his wife at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore.
During the Japanese occupation, he was a prisoner of war from February 15, 1942 to August 15, 1945, in Formosa and then in Manchukuo.
To his memory, a street in Singapore has been named after him, the Shenton Way.
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