Francis Fleming

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Sir Francis Fleming KCMG ( chin.菲林明; * 1842 ; † 1922 ) was a British colonial official.

Political offices

Fleming Road (菲林明 道)
in Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Fleming represented in his employment as Chief Secretary on the island of Mauritius from July 2, 1887 and December 11, 1888 and from December 11 to December 17, 1889, the Governor Sir John Pope Hennessyals . After serving as Chief Secretary in Hong Kong from 1890 onwards, he officially took over the governorship of Sierra Leone in 1892 from William Hollingworth Quayle Jones, who had last deputized in his function as Chief Secretary and also during Fleming's tenure until 1894 whose absence was deputy governor. He was then governor of the Leeward Islands from 1895 to 1901 .

He married Constance Kavanagh in 1892 and was knighted in the same year. A street in Wan Chai has been named after him since the end of the 19th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Francis Fleming (1842-1922) , Mauritius-Island.de.
  2. ^ Sierra Leone .
  3. ^ Antigua and Barbuda .
  4. ↑ Downside Abbey : The Downside Review. Volume 41/42, 1923, p. 89.
predecessor Office successor
Sir James Shaw Hay Governor of Sierra Leone
1892 - 1894 		Sir Frederic Cardew
predecessor Office successor
Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith Governor of the Leeward Islands
1895 - 1901 		Sir Henry Moore Jackson
personal data
SURNAME Fleming, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 菲林明 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British colonial governor of Sierra Leone
DATE OF BIRTH 1842
DATE OF DEATH 1922