Frederick Broome

Broome with his wife Mary Anne Barker (around 1866)

Sir Frederick Napier Broome KCMG (born November 18, 1842 in Canada , † November 26, 1896 in London , England ) was a British colonial administrator.

biography

Broome was an administrator in the British colonial administration and was the first acting governor of Mauritius from December 31, 1878 to April 4, 1879, and served as governor in succession to George Ferguson Bowen between December 9, 1880 and May 5, 1883 .

He then became Governor of Western Australia on June 2, 1883 and held this position for more than six years until December 21, 1889. During this time, on May 24, 1884, he was given the personal nobility of Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George , so that he was allowed to call himself Sir from then on .

His last position was as of August 19, 1891 Governor of two years earlier from the previously administratively separate islands Trinidad and Tobago formed colony of Trinidad and Tobago . During his tenure, electricity was introduced there and subsequently the first electrically operated tram. Broome died in London immediately after the end of his tenure. His grave is in Highgate Cemetery .

Broome was married to the writer Mary Anne Barker from 1865 until his death .

Web links

• FK Crowley: Broome, Sir Frederick Napier (1842-1896) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Anthony: Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago . Scarecrow Press, London 1997, ISBN 0-8108-3173-2 , pp. 75 .