[Sir]. English public official, born in Canada in 1842; was educated in England and emigrated to New Zealand in 1857. In 1864 he returned to England and married Lady Barker. He became an attaché on the staff of The Times, representing that journal at the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh to the daughter of the Czar of Russia in 1874. The following year he was appointed secretary to the government of Natal, and in 1877 to the government of the Mauritius, becoming lieutenant-governor of the latter in 1880. In 1882 he was appointed governor of Western Australia, from which he was sent to be governor at Trinidad. He was made a K.C.M.G. in 1877. He has published two volumes of poetry: Poems from New Zealand (1868) and The Stranger of Seriphos (1869).
