William Cleaver Francis Robinson
Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson , GCMG (born January 14, 1834 in Rosmead House, County Westmeath , Ireland , † May 2, 1897 in London ) was a British colonial administrator . He was Governor of the Falkland Islands , the Straits Settlements , Western Australia and South Australia, and Lieutenant Governor of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island .
biography
Robinson was the fifth son of Admiral Hercules Robinson. In 1855 he entered the service of the Colonial Office , initially as the private secretary of his older brother Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead , for whom he worked in St. Kitts and Hong Kong . In 1862 he married and became the administrator of Montserrat . In 1866 he took over his first governor post on the Falkland Islands . Four years later, he was appointed governor of Prince Edward Island and raised to the nobility. At that time, the island was still a colony in British North America , which only joined the Canadian Confederation as the seventh province in 1873 . Robinson stayed there for another year, which meant he served as lieutenant governor for that period .
In 1874 Robinson was awarded the governorship of the colony of Western Australia for the first time . Its main task was to reject claims for self-government , as the Colonial Office believed the colony was still ready to do so. In 1877 he was appointed governor of the Straits Settlements , and three years later he returned to his post in Western Australia. Robinson was governor of the colony of South Australia for six years, from 1883 to 1889 . He was then appointed Governor of Western Australia for the third time, this time with the task of overseeing the introduction of a parliamentary system of government. In 1895 he retired and spent the last years of his life in London.
Web links
- William Cleaver Francis Robinson . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
- Short biography on the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island's website
predecessor | Office | successor |
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James George Mackenzie |
Governor of the Falkland Islands 1866–1870 |
George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy |
Robert Hodgson |
Governor of Prince Edward Island 1870–1874 |
Robert Hodgson |
Frederick Weld |
Governor of Western Australia 1875–1877 |
Harry Ord |
William Jervois | Governor of the Straits Settlements 1877–1879 |
Frederick Weld |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Robinson, William Cleaver Francis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Colonial Administrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1834 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosmead House, County Westmeath , Ireland |
DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1897 |
Place of death | London |