Robert Baxter Llewelyn

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Sir Robert Baxter Llewelyn KCMG (* 1845 - February 19, 1919 ) was a colonial administrator of the British Empire .

career

Llewelyn began his political career in 1868 and was soon transferred to the Secretariat of the Colonial Administration of Jamaica , where he was appointed private secretary in 1873. From 1878 to 1883 Llewelyn was used as the commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands and from 1885 to 1888 was appointed governor of Tobago . At the same time he was given the office of administrator of St. Vincent and the Grenadines from 1886 to 1889 . He then worked as administrator of the Gambia colony until 1891. Finally, from 1900 until his retirement in 1906, he was appointed governor of Windward Islands and Grenada. Llewelyn was awarded the East and West Africa Medal in the versions 1891.92 and 1893.94, and knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1898 .

literature

  • Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of the Gambia , Scarecrow Pr Inc, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Administrators of Trinidad and Tobago
  2. ^ Administrators of St. Vincent and Grenadines
  3. ^ Administrators of Gambia
  4. ^ Governors of the Windward Islands
  5. ^ Governors of Granada
  6. ^ East and West Africa Medal
  7. ↑ Knights and Dames: KIN-LYV at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
predecessor Office successor
Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter Governor of the Gambia
1891–1900 		Sir George Chardin Denton
personal data
SURNAME Llewelyn, Robert Baxter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1845
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1919