Henry Vere Huntley

Sir Henry Vere Huntley (* 1795 in Gloucestershire ; † May 7, 1864 in Santos , Brazil ) was born in 1795 as the third son of the Reverend Richard Huntley in Gloucestershire, Great Britain . He joined the Navy in 1809 and in 1839 was appointed lieutenant governor of the Gambia colony , which was then headed from Freetown ( Sierra Leone ) as British West Africa . In 1841 he was a Knight Bachelor for beaten knight . On November 13, 1841, he became the ninth Governor of Prince Edward Island , an office he held until November 1, 1847. He died on May 7, 1864 in Santos, Brazil.

Works

He published some papers that are considered insignificant, including:

Peregrine Scramble , Thirty Years' Adventures of a Blue Jacket
Observations upon the Free Trade Policy of England in Connection with the Sugar Act of 1846
Seven Years' Service on the Slave Coast of Western Africa
California, Its Gold and Its Inhabitants .

Henry Vere Huntley . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Lewis Ingram	Lieutenant-Governor of Gambia 1840–1841	Thomas Lewis Ingram

personal data
SURNAME	Huntley, Henry Vere
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lieutenant Governor of Gambia
DATE OF BIRTH	1795
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gloucestershire , UK
DATE OF DEATH	May 7, 1864
Place of death	Santos , Brazil