Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright

Sir Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright

Sir Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright , KCMG (* 1817 in London , † December 23, 1897 in Hillside, Barre, Ontario , Canada) served as governor and represented Queen Victoria in several British colonies.

Life

Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright, son of Lawrence and Jane Maria Kortright, was baptized on January 8, 1818 in St. Mary's Church on Marylebone Road , London.

From 1854 to 1857 he was President of the British Virgin Islands , then he was Lieutenant Governor of Grenada . From 1857 to 1864 he was Lieutenant Governor of Grenada then until 1872 of Lieutenant Governor of Tobago. During his tenure he campaigned unsuccessfully against the British government for electoral reforms in favor of the middle class on Tobago. From 1873 to 1875 was governor of Gambia and 1876 to 1877 governor of Sierra Leone. His last service as governor was in British Guiana from April 3, 1877 to December 13, 1881.

In 1882 Kortright was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George .

Individual evidence

^ Arnold Hughes, Harry A. Gailey: Historical dictionary of the Gambia Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999., ISBN 0-8108-3660-2
↑ Ancestry.com: Unchecked forum post ( Memento of February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
^ Susan E. Craig-James: The Changing Society of Tobago, 1838-1938: A Fractured Whole. Volume I: 1838-1900 . Cornerstone Press, Arima 2008, ISBN 978-976-95160-1-4 , pp. 237 .

predecessor	Office	successor
John Cornell Chads	President of the British Virgin Islands 1854–1857	Thomas Price
Robert William Keate	Lieutenant governor of Grenada 1857–1864	Robert Miller Mundy
James Vickery Drysdale	Lieutenant Governor of Tobago 1864–1872	Herbert Taylor Ussher
Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan	Governor of Gambia 1873–1875	Sir Samuel Rowe
Sir Samuel Rowe	Governor of Sierra Leone 1876–1877	Horatio James Huggins
William AG Young	Governor of British Guiana 1877–1881	William AG Young

personal data
SURNAME	Kortright, Cornelius Hendricksen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Governor in the British Colonies
DATE OF BIRTH	1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1897
Place of death	Hillside, Barre, Ontario , Canada

[1] Arnold Hughes, Harry A. Gailey: Historical dictionary of the Gambia Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999., ISBN 0-8108-3660-2

[2] Ancestry.com: Unchecked forum post ( Memento of February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[CRAIG-JAMES-3] Susan E. Craig-James: The Changing Society of Tobago, 1838-1938: A Fractured Whole. Volume I: 1838-1900 . Cornerstone Press, Arima 2008, ISBN 978-976-95160-1-4 , pp. 237 .