Career
Jakeway spent seventeen years with the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria (1937 - 1954). During this time, he was seconded to the Seychelles from 1946 to 1949, and the Colonial Office from 1949 to 1951. He served in Sarawak from 1959 to 1963.
He became Governor of Fiji in 1964, serving until 1968.
lieutenant was during his tenure that a measure of self-government was introduced to Fiji in 1964, followed by responsible government 1967, in preparation for the granting of independence in 1970. Only 18 of the 37 Legislative Council members were popularly elected.
These eighteen were equally divided between the three principal ethnic groups - Fijians, Indo-Fijians, and Europeans. This "Member system", as it was known, did not introduce a Cabinet in the modern sense: Members so appointed were responsible only to the Governor, not to the Legislative Council.
But it was a crucial stepping stone to the second stage: following elections in 1966 - to a reconstituted Legislative Council that was, for the first time, wholly elected (except for two members nominated by the Great Council of Chiefs) - responsible government was introduced, with a Chief Minister and a Cabinet responsible to the Legislative Council.
Jakeway was succeeded as Governor by Sir Robert Sidney Foster in 1968 and retired to Exmouth, Devon, where he became Chairman of the British Health Authority, from which he retired in 1977.
