Walter Joseph Sendall
Sir Walter Joseph Sendall GCMG (24 December 1832 – 16 March 1904[1][2]) was a British colonial governor.
Life[]
As Director of Public Instruction in Ceylon, he expanded the system of schools, teaching in English and the vernacular.[3]
He was Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands, from 1885 to 1889. There he promoted road construction in Grenada, and founded a botanical garden.[4] He suspended the Legislative Council on St. Vincent, rather than appoint black members he felt were unqualified.[5] After some hesitation, he supported finance for the Grenada Boys' Secondary School.[6]
He was Governor of Barbados from 1889 to 1891.[7] He was High Commissioner of Cyprus, from 1892 to 1898.[8] He was Governor of British Guiana, from 1898 to 1901.[9]
He was the brother-in-law of the English poet and wit Charles Stuart Calverley.
Honours[]
He was Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, knighted KCMG in 1889, and GCMG in 1899.[10]
In July 1902 he received an honorary degree LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh.[11]
Notes[]
- ^ Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1912). Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 2.
- ^ "Oxford Index".
- ^ The Sunday Times Mirror Magazine
- ^ Charles Bruce, The Broad Stone of Empire: Problems of Crown Colony Administration (1910), p. 226.
- ^ Bonham C. Richardson, Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the (1997), pp. 53–4.
- ^ The Grenada Boys' Secondary School and the Debate Over Secondary Education in Grenada, 1885–1946, Edward L. Cox.
- ^ Countries Ba-Bo
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20090730200521/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Cyprus.html
- ^ Guyana
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "The Colonial Premiers in Edinburgh". The Times (36831). London. 28 July 1902. p. 4.
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