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BOWEN, SIR GEORGE FERGUSON (1821—1849)

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BOWEN, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE See also:FERGUSON (1821—1849) , See also:British colonial See also:governor, eldest son of the Rev. See also:Edward Bowen, after-wards See also:rector of Taughboyne, Co. See also:Donegal, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:November 1821. Educated at See also:Charterhouse school and Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, he took a first class in See also:classics in 1844, and was elected a See also:fellow of Brasenose. In 1847 he was chosen See also:president of the university of See also:Corfu. Having served as secretary of See also:government in the Ionian Islands, he was appointed in 1859 the first governor of See also:Queensland, which See also:colony had just been separated from New See also:South See also:Wales. He was interested in the exploration of Queensland and in the See also:establishment of a volunteer force, but incurred some unpopularity by refusing to See also:sanction the issue of inconvertible See also:paper See also:money during the See also:financial crisis of 1866. In 1867 he was made governor of New See also:Zealand, in which position he was successful in reconciling the Maoris to the See also:English See also:rule, and saw the end of the struggle between the colonists and the natives. Transferred to See also:Victoria in 1872, Bowen endeavoured to reduce the expenses of the colony, and in 1879 became governor of See also:Mauritius. His last See also:official position was that of governor of Hong-See also:Kong, which he held from 1882 to 1887. He was made a K.C.M.G. in 1856, a privy councillor in 1886, and received honorary degrees from both Oxford and See also:Cambridge. In Decembef 1887 he was appointed See also:chief of the royal See also:commission which was sent to See also:Malta with regard to the new constitution for the See also:island, and all the recommendations made by him were adopted.

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Brighton on the 21st of See also:February 1899, having been married twice, and having had a See also:family of one son and four daughters. Bowen wrote See also:Ithaca in 185o (See also:London, 1854), translated into See also:Greek in 1859; and See also:Mount See also:Athos, See also:Thessaly and See also:Epirus (London, 1852); and he was the author of See also:Murray's Handbook for See also:Greece (London, 1854). A selection of his letters and despatches, See also:Thirty Years of Colonial Government (London, 1889), was edited by S. See also:Lane-See also:Poole.

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