Samuel Rowe

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Samuel Rowe (around 1870)

Sir Samuel Rowe (born March 23, 1835 in Macclesfield , † August 28, 1888 in Madeira ) was a British surgeon and colonial administrator .

Rowe was governor in Sierra Leone (1875-1876, 1877-1880, 1881, 1885-1886 and 1887-1888), British Gambia (1875-1877), on the Gold Coast ( Ghana ; 1881-1884) and in the colony Lagos ( Nigeria ; 1881–1884) and Governor General of British West Africa (1877–1881).

On April 22, 1880, he was raised to the personal nobility as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and has since had the suffix "Sir".

See also

literature

  • The African Repository . American Colonization Society ( books.google.com )
  • George Alexander Lethbridge Banbury: Sierra Leone or The White Man's Grave . Sunshine, Lowrey & Co, 1888. ( available online )
  • Colonial System of Administration in Gambia . Access Gambia ( accessgambia.com )
  • Ordinances of the Settlements on the Gold Coast and of the Gold Coast Colony, in Force April 7th, 1887: With an Appendix Containing the Rules, Orders in Council, and Proclamations of Practical Utility, and an Index . Gold Coast Government, Waterlow 1887 ( books.google.com )
  • Alexander Harris:  Rowe, Samuel (1835-1888) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 49:  Robinson - Russell. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1897, p. 347 (English).
  • The Year-book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India: A Statistical Record of the Resources and Trade of the Colonial and Indian Possessions of the British Empire . Imperial Institute, 1893 ( books.google.com )
  • David Killingray: Africans in Britain . Routledge, 2012, ISBN 978-1-136-29999-5 .
  • David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4 .
  • Zubairu Wai: Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone . Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 978-1-137-28079-4 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knights and Dames: RAE-SEK at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Rowe, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowe, Sir Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British surgeon and colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Macclesfield
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1888
Place of death Madeira