Samuel Rowe

Samuel Rowe (um 1870)

Rowe war Gouverneur in Sierra Leone (1875–1876, 1877–1880, 1881, 1885–1886 und 1887–1888), Britisch-Gambia (1875–1877), an der Goldküste (Ghana; 1881–1884) und in der Kolonie Lagos (Nigeria; 1881–1884) sowie Generalgouverneur von Britisch-Westafrika (1877–1881).

Am 22. April 1880 wurde er als Knight Commander des Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in den persönlichen Adelsstand erhoben und führte seither den Namenszusatz „Sir“.[1]

Siehe auch

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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