Patrick Alexander Agnew

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Patrick Alexander Agnew
1st Military Governor of British Ceylon
In office August 1795 – 1 March 1796
Monarch	George III
Preceded by	None Office Created
Succeeded by	James Stewart
Personal details
Born	1765
Died	1813

Patrick Alexander Agnew (b. 1765 - d. 1813) was the 1st Military Governor of British Ceylon in Trincomalee. He was appointed in August 1795 and was Governor until 1 March 1796. He was succeeded by James Stewart.^[1] In 1811 he became Major General of the East India Company.

References

↑ "Sri Lanka". Rulers.org. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

Government offices
Preceded by None Office Created	Military Governor of British Ceylon 1795-1796	Succeeded by James Stewart

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Military Governors of Ceylon	Agnew Stewart Doyle Bonnevaux de Meuron Andrews*

Governors of Ceylon	North Maitland Wilson Brownrigg Barnes Paget Campbell Barnes Wilson Wilmot-Horton Stewart-Mackenzie Campbell Emerson Tennent Torrington MacCarthy Anderson MacCarthy Ward Lockyer Wilkinson MacCarthy O'Brien Robinson Robinson Irving Gregory Longden Douglas Hamilton-Gordon Havelock Walker Ridgeway im Thurn Blake Clifford McCallum Stubbs Chalmers Stubbs Anderson Stubbs Manning Clementi Alexander Clifford Fletcher Stanley Bourdillon Thomson Tyrrell Stubbs Wedderburn Caldecott Moore**

Acting, Resident and Superintendent, became Governor-General of Ceylon*

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