Henry Barkly
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Sir Henry Barkly GCMG KCB (24 February 1815 – 20 October 1898) Governor of Victoria.
Barkly was born in Monteagle, Rossshire, Scotland. He represented Leominster in the British House of Commons from 1845-48 and was later appointed governor and commander-in-chief of British Guiana and in 1853 of Jamaica.
In November 1856 Barkly was appointed governor of Victoria, arriving in Melbourne on 24 December 1856. He achieved one of his main goals of stable government with the appointment of the James McCulloch ministry.
In 1863 he was moved to the government of Mauritius, in August 1870 he was sent to the Cape of Good Hope as governor.
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| Preceded by Sir Charles Hotham |
Governor of Victoria 1856–1863 |
Succeeded by Sir Charles Darling |
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- B. A. Knox, 'Barkly, Sir Henry (1815 - 1898)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, MUP, 1969, pp 95-96.
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