Walter Joseph Sendall
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Walter Joseph Sendall (1832-1904) was a British colonial governor.
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[edit] Life
As Director of Public Instruction in Ceylon, he expanded the system of schools, teaching in English and the vernacular[1].
He was Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands, from 1885 to 1889. There he promoted road construction in Grenada, and founded a botanic garden[2]. He suspended the Legislative Council on St. Vincent, rather than appoint black members he felt were unqualified[3]. After some hesitation he supported finance for the Grenada Boys' Secondary School[4].
He was Governor of Barbados from 1889 to 1891[5]. He was High Commissioner of Cyprus, from 1892 to 1898[6]. He was Governor of British Guiana, from 1898 to 1901[7].
[edit] Honours
He was Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, knighted KCMG in 1889, and GCMG in 1899[8].
[edit] Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Cyprus.html
- ^ Guyana
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
