Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster, KCMG, KBE was governor of British Somaliland, British Honduras, and then of the Nyasaland protectorate in the period before the Second World War.

Nyasaland was a British protectorate located in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Between 1953 and 1963, Nyasaland was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. After the Federation was dissolved, Nyasaland became independent from Britain on 6 July 1964 and was renamed Malawi.