| 词条 | Walter Joseph Sendall |
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Sir Walter Joseph Sendall {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCMG}} (24 December 1832 – 16 March 1904)[1][2] was a British colonial governor. LifeAs 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. HonoursHe was Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, knighted {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} in 1889, and GCMG in 1899.[10] In July 1902 he received an honorary degree LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh.[11] Notes1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=1brngErTKD4C&pg=RA2-PA290&dq=Sir+Walter+Joseph+Sendall+16+mar&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd1-irsozXAhWBLhoKHasODuYQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=Sir%20Walter%20Joseph%20Sendall%2016%20mar&f=false Profile of Sir Walter Joseph Sendall] 2. ^http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/36018 3. ^The Sunday Times Mirror Magazine 4. ^Charles Bruce, The Broad Stone of Empire: Problems of Crown Colony Administration (1910), p. 226. 5. ^Bonham C. Richardson, Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the (1997), pp. 53–4. 6. ^The Grenada Boys' Secondary School and the Debate Over Secondary Education in Grenada, 1885–1946, Edward L. Cox. 7. ^Countries Ba-Bo 8. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20090730200521/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Cyprus.html 9. ^Guyana 10. ^Dictionary of National Biography 11. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=The Colonial Premiers in Edinburgh |day_of_week=Monday |date=28 July 1902 |page_number=4 |issue=36831| }} External links
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