Charles Henry Darling
Sir Charles Henry Darling KCB (19 February 1809 – 25 January 1870) was a British colonial governor.
Biography
He was born at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the son of Major-General Henry Darling and nephew of General Sir Ralph Darling.
He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served in the garrisons of Barbados, the Windward Islands, and Jamaica, with the 57th Foot. He started his colonial service while in Jamaica and became Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia in 1847. He became Lieutenant-Governor of the Cape Colony in South Africa in 1851. He became Governor of Newfoundland in 1855.
Darling supported the British suggestions granting the French more fishing rights in waters of Newfoundland between Cape St. John and Cape Ray to the total disagreement of the Newfoundland government which ultimately lead to the end of his term in office.
Darling became governor and captain-chief of Jamaica in 1857 then governor of Victoria, Australia from 1863 to 1866.
His first marriage was on 2 May 1835 to Anne Wilhelmina Dalzell (18 July 1813 – 16 October 1837). They had a son who died in infancy. He was then married, at Christ Church, Barbados, on 14 December 1839 to Mary Ann Nurse (who died of yellow fever in St Lucia on 6 November 1848). His third marriage, at Ilfracombe, North Devon, was on 10 December 1851 to Elizabeth Isabella Caroline Salter (c. 1820 – 10 December 1900).
Charles Henry Darling died at Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, aged 60.
See also
External links
- Biography at Government House The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Biography at Saint Lucia Government House
- Family tree
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| Preceded by Sir Evan John Murray MacGregor |
Governor of Barbados and the Windward Islands 1841 |
Succeeded by Sir Charles Edward Grey |
| Preceded by Arthur Wellesley Torrens |
Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia 1848–1852 |
Succeeded by Henry Clermont Cobbe |
| Preceded by Sir George Cathcart |
Governor of the Cape Colony, acting 1854 |
Succeeded by Sir George Grey |
| Preceded by Ker Baillie Hamilton |
Governor of Newfoundland 1855–1857 |
Succeeded by Sir Alexander Bannerman |
| Preceded by Edward Wells Bell |
Governor of Jamaica 1857–1863 |
Succeeded by Edward John Eyre |
| Preceded by Sir Henry Barkly |
Governor of Victoria 1863–1866 |
Succeeded by Sir John Manners-Sutton |
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