Governor-in-chief
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Governor-in-chief is a British English colonial title for governing offices with a jurisdictions that comprises—contrary to an ordinary governor, but like certain governors-general—several colonies.
[edit] History
The office could be sytematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).
On the British South Caribbean Islands, the title was vested in the Governor of Grenada (1762 - 1802; 1779 - 1784 vacant), the other components being Dominica, St. Vincent, the Grenadines and Tobago; later (1833 - 1 January 1960) all part of the even larger Windward Islands but without a title above Governor.
