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This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in 1850. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed.
The following is a list of colonial governors in 1850 grouped by the European empire under which they belonged.
In colonies of Portugal edit
- Angola – Adrião da Silveiro Pinto, Governor-General of Angola (1848–1851)[1]
- Macau – Adrião da Silveiro Pinto, Governor of Macau (1837–1843)[1]
In colonies of the United Kingdom edit
- Bahamas – John Gregory, Governor of the Bahamas (1849–1854)[2]
- Ceylon –
- George Byng, Governor of Ceylon (1847–1850)[3]
- George William Anderson, Governor of Ceylon (1850–1855)[4]
- Malta – Richard More O'Ferrall, Governor of Malta (1847–1851)[5]
- New South Wales – Lieutenant Colonel Charles FitzRoy, Governor of New South Wales (1846–1855)[6]
- New Zealand – George Grey, Governor, then Governor in Chief, New Zealand (1846–1855)[7]
- Punjab – John Lawrence, Lieutenant Governor of Punjab (1859)[8]
- South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young, Governor of South Australia (1848–1854)[9]
- Western Australia – Captain Charles Fitzgerald, Governor of Western Australia (1848–1855)[10]
References edit
- ^ a b Thomson, Ron B. (2014-09-11). The Concession of Évora Monte: The Failure of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Portugal. Lexington Books. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-7391-9332-7.
- ^ Dold, Gaylord (2003). The Bahamas. Rough Guides. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-85828-828-4.
- ^ Ryan, Derek (2022-12-15). Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-009-18297-3.
- ^ Wimalaratne, K. D. G. (2006). The President's House, Sri Lanka: From a Private Residence to President's House. Keshawa Publishers & Distributors. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-955-1277-04-8.
- ^ Harding, Lewis (2019-04-01). At Sea with Bishop John Bede Polding: The Journals of Lewis Harding, 1835 (Liverpool to Sydney) and 1846 (Sydney to London). ATF Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-1-925872-76-7.
- ^ Clune, David (2009). The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010. Federation Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-86287-743-6.
- ^ Henderson, George Cockburn (1907). Sir George Grey, Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands. J.M. Dent. pp. 223, 225, 294.
- ^ Grewal, J. S. (1998-10-08). The Sikhs of the Punjab. Cambridge University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-521-63764-0.
- ^ Bennett, John Michael (2002). Sir Charles Cooper: First Chief Justice of South Australia 1856-1861. Federation Press. pp. xiv. ISBN 978-1-86287-442-8.
- ^ Lane, Cindy (2015-02-27). Myths and Memories: (Re)viewing Colonial Western Australia through Travellers' Imaginings, 1850-1914. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4438-7579-0.