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    Cowes in the Isle of Wight, Jervois was the son of General William Jervois (pronounced "Jarvis"), and his wife Elizabeth Jervois (née Maitland). From a military...
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    Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 24 January 1878 and named after William Jervois, the Governor of South Australia from October 1877 to January 1883...
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    Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson GCMG FRGS (14 January 1834 – 2 May 1897) was an Irish colonial administrator and musical composer, who wrote several...
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    Major-General William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 11 May 1839) was a Madras Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the resident of Malacca...
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    James Fergusson Esquire The Secretary of the Commission was Major William Jervois of the Royal Engineers, a progressive military engineer who held the...
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    Jervois Street (Chinese: 蘇杭街, formerly 乍畏街) is a street in the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. On 28 December 1851, a fire broke out...
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  • according to the earliest maps of East London from September 1847 by William Jervois. The municipality started to sell plots "east of the Quigney River"...
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  • Jervois is a town in South Australia, on the right (western) bank of the lower Murray River. Jervois is predominantly a farming community, especially dairy...
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    Ripapa Island (redirect from Fort Jervois)
    to protect Lyttelton Harbour, it was renamed Fort Jervois after Lieutenant General Sir William Jervois in 1888. Four disappearing guns were installed by...
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  • Jervois may refer to: County of Jervois, a cadastral unit in South Australia Jervois, South Australia, a town on the lower reaches of the Murray River...
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    Harbord Anson, Lieutenant-Governor of Penang under Governor-General Sir William Jervois at Singapore. 1877-1877: Major General Archibald Edward Harbord Anson...
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    April 1854 Monarch Victoria Lieutenant Governor Maj Gen William Staveley Maj Gen William Jervois Preceded by Sir John Davis Succeeded by Sir John Bowring...
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    William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, GCMG, PC, DL (7 March 1853 – 23 October 1911), was a British Conservative politician. He held several governmental...
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    Wingfield, the private secretary to Governor of South Australia, William Jervois. The suburb is in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield local government...
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    Australian continent when two British engineer officers, Major General William Jervois and Lieutenant Colonel Peter Scratchley arrived to serve as defence...
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    township of Quorn, South Australia, was named in May 1878 by Governor William Jervois of the then Province of South Australia after Quorn, Leicestershire...
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  • Thumbnail for Andrew Clarke (British Army officer, born 1824)
    of Royal Engineers, Clarke sailed with the new lieutenant-governor, Sir William Denison, aboard the Windermere and arrived at Hobart on 26 January 1847...
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    and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Gordon was born at Argyll House, his family's townhouse...
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    appointed by the East India Company. He was born in Edinburgh the son of William Fullerton of Carstairs and raised on Nicolson Street in the city's south...
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    Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode GCMG KStJ (8 June 1907 – 15 September 1986) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore...
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