Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott

Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott KCMG (born August 20, 1857 - April 9, 1941 ) was a British colonial administrator.

biography

Sweet-Escott attended the Royal Somersetshire College in Bath after the "King Edward VI." Primary School in Bromsgrove and studied at Balliol College . He taught at the Royal College of Mauritius from 1881 and married Mary Jane Hunt on December 14 of the same year, with whom he later had five children named Kathleen, Stanley Bickham, Norah Muriel, Hugh Bevil and Leslie Wingfield.

From 1886 Sweet-Escott was assistant colonial secretary in Mauritius and also officiated there in 1889 as colonial secretary. It was used in British Honduras from May 1893 to September 1898, before he was employed as administrator of the Seychelles from June 1899 and, after the creation of the governor's post there, from November 1903 to 1904. In 1904 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George and returned to British Honduras, where he was governor from April 15, 1904 to August 13, 1906. From 1906 to 1912 he was Governor of the Leeward Islands and was on July 25, 1912 Governor of the Fiji Islands and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific region . During his tenure in 1913, he also donated the Escott Shield , a rugby cup that the Pacific Club won for the first time. His term of office ended on October 10, 1918.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Edward Housman, Archie Burnett: The Letters of AE Housman (English), p. 272.
2. ↑ SWEET-ESCOTT Sir Ernest Bickham 1857-1941 .
3. ^ Seychelles ( Memento of May 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive .
4. ↑ http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html
5. ^ History , Fiji Rugby Union .
6. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/British-Western-Pacific-Territories

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Governor of the Seychelles 1903–1904, previously administrator of the colony since 1899	Walter Edward Davidson
Sir David Wilson	Governor of British Honduras 1904–1906	Sir Eric John Eagles Swayne
Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys	Governor of the Leeward Islands 1906–1912	Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell
Sir Francis Henry May	Governor of the Fiji Islands and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific Territories 1912–1918	Cecil Hunter Rodwell