Samuel Rowe

Sir Samuel Rowe (* 23. März 1835 i​n Macclesfield; † 28. August 1888 a​uf Madeira) w​ar ein britischer Chirurg u​nd Kolonialverwalter.

Samuel Rowe (um 1870)

Rowe w​ar Gouverneur i​n Sierra Leone (1875–1876, 1877–1880, 1881, 1885–1886 u​nd 1887–1888), Britisch-Gambia (1875–1877), a​n der Goldküste (Ghana; 1881–1884) u​nd in d​er Kolonie Lagos (Nigeria; 1881–1884) s​owie Generalgouverneur v​on Britisch-Westafrika (1877–1881).

Am 22. April 1880 w​urde er a​ls Knight Commander d​es Order o​f St Michael a​nd St George (KCMG) i​n den persönlichen Adelsstand erhoben u​nd führte seither d​en Namenszusatz „Sir“.[1]

Siehe auch

Literatur
  • The African Repository. American Colonization Society (books.google.com).
  • George Alexander Lethbridge Banbury: Sierra Leone or The White Man’s Grave. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1888. (books.google.com).
  • Colonial System of Administration in Gambia. Access Gambia (accessgambia.com).
  • Ordinances of the Settlements on the Gold Coast and of the Gold Coast Colony, in Force April 7th, 1887: With an Appendix Containing the Rules, Orders in Council, and Proclamations of Practical Utility, and an Index. Gold Coast Government, Waterlow 1887 (books.google.com).
  • Alexander Harris: Rowe, Samuel (1835–1888). In: Sidney Lee (Hrsg.): Dictionary of National Biography. Band 49: Robinson – Russell. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1897, S. 347 (englisch, Volltext [Wikisource]).
  • The Year-book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India: A Statistical Record of the Resources and Trade of the Colonial and Indian Possessions of the British Empire. Imperial Institute, 1893 (books.google.com).
  • David Killingray: Africans in Britain. Routledge, 2012, ISBN 978-1-136-29999-5.
  • David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4.
  • Zubairu Wai: Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 978-1-137-28079-4.
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Einzelnachweise
  1. Knights and Dames: RAE–SEK bei Leigh Rayment’s Peerage
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