Wilfred Collet

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Sir Wilfred Robert Collet KCMG (* 1856 in St. Pancras, Islington , † 1929 in London ) was a British colonial administrator.

biography

Collet came from Islington and had four siblings, including the future sociologist Clara Collet . His father was the journalist and free thinker Collet Dobson Collet . After a vacation in Calais in 1969, he stayed in France like his sister Caroline and attended a secular priest school there for a short time. However, the stay was canceled a year later when the Franco-German War broke out. Back in England, he and his sister Clara had frequent contact with the Marx family from 1875 onwards . Wilfried. He married Mary Ewins, who lived most of the time with their children in England. After she died in 1912 due to illness, their children grew up in England with his sisters.

He was Governor of British Honduras from May 9, 1913 to January 29, 1918 , was made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George on January 1, 1915 , and was from April 15, 1917 to April 4 1923 Governor of British Guiana . He was a member of the Polynesian Society. He retired in 1923.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also his questionnaire in the Marx family private. The photo and questionnaire albums of Marx's daughters Laura and Jenny. An annotated facsimile edition . Edited by Izumi Omura, Valerij Fomičev, Rolf Hecker and Shun-ichi Kubo. With an essay by Iring Fetscher. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-05-004118-8 , p. 262 f.
  2. ↑ Wilfried Robert Collet to Jenny Marx September 22, 1867. In: Rolf Hecker, Angelika Limmroth (ed.): Jenny Marx. Letters . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-320-02297-6 , p. 407.
  3. ↑ from: Deborah McDonald: Clara Collet 1860-1948 , 2004. ISBN 9780713002416
  4. ↑ http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html
  5. ↑ Knights and Dames: BUL-COL at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  6. ↑ http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Guyana.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_35_1926
predecessor Office successor
Sir Eric John Eagles Swayne Governor of British Honduras
1913–1918 		William Hart-Bennett
Sir Walter Egerton Governor of British Guiana
1917–1923 		Sir Graeme Thomson
personal data
SURNAME Collet, Wilfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collet, Wilfred Robert (full name); Collet, Sir Wilfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British colonial governor
DATE OF BIRTH 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH St Pancras ( Islington )
DATE OF DEATH 1929
Place of death London