Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
1824–97
Colonial governor. Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1840. Second lieutenant, 1843; lieutenant, 1844. Resigned from the army in 1846. President of Montserrat, 1854; lieutenant-governor, St Christopher, 1855. Governor of Hong Kong, 1859; New South Wales, 1872; New Zealand, 1879. Cape governor and high commissioner for South Africa, 1881–9. Created first Baron Rosmead, 1891.
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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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