Walter Joseph Sendall

Sir Walter Joseph Sendall, GCMG (1832–1904) was a British colonial governor.

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 botanical 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]

Honours

He was Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, knighted KCMG in 1889, and GCMG in 1899.[8]

In July 1902 he received an honorary degree LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Sunday Times Mirror Magazine
  2. ↑ Charles Bruce, The Broad Stone of Empire: Problems of Crown Colony Administration (1910), p. 226.
  3. ↑ Bonham C. Richardson, Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the (1997), pp. 53–4.
  4. ↑ The Grenada Boys' Secondary School and the Debate Over Secondary Education in Grenada, 1885–1946, Edward L. Cox.
  5. ↑ Countries Ba-Bo
  6. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090730200521/http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Cyprus.html
  7. ↑ Guyana
  8. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography
  9. ↑ "The Colonial Premiers in Edinburgh". The Times (36831). London. 28 July 1902. p. 4.


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