William Thomas Denison
1804–71
Army officer and colonial governor. Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 1826; captain, 1841. Worked on the construction of the Rideau Canal in Canada, 1827–31. Lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen’s Land, 1846; governor-general, New South Wales, 1855. Governor of the Madras presidency, 1861–66. Chairman of the Royal Commission on pollution in British rivers, 1868–71. Knighted, 1856.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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