|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
March 8, 2014 |
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Image:Hk11.gif|thumb|right|133px|Sir William Robinson Sir William Robinson (Chinese Translated Name ?????????) (1836 - 1912) was a United Kingdom|British colonial governor who was the last Governor of Trinidad and the first Governor of the merged colony of Trinidad and Tobago. He was also the 11th Governor of Hong Kong. Robinson was born in 1836. He was the eldest son of Rev. J. Banks Robinson. He became a Member of Slave Trade Commission in 1869 and was appointed Governor of Bahamas|Bahama Isles from 1874 to 1880. A year later, Robinson was appointed governor of the Windward Islands, a position he held until 1884. Afterwards, he became Governor of Barbados, and was transfered to become the Governor of Trinidad a year later. In 1889 the colony of Tobago was merged with Trinidad into the united colony of Trinidad and Tobago, with Robinson as its first governor, a position he held until 1891. In 1891, Robinson was appointed Governor of Hong Kong, a position he served until 1898. This was Robinson's last post in the Colonial Services. He was the governor of Hong Kong who served the longest term. During his tenure, Sun Yet-Sen graduated from the territory's Medical School. Also, Robinson received the thanks of the Hong Kong government for the settlement of the Fanny Josephine affair (Venezuela). Robinson married twice. His married his first wife, Julia Sophia, in 1862. She died in 1881 and Robinson married FeliciaIda Helen 3 years later, in 1884. Helen ten years later. The couple had three sons and three daughters. Robinson himself died on December 1st|1 December, 1912.
Despite public perceptions to the contrary, there are no places in Hong Kong that was named after Sir William Robinson. Places in Hong Kong with the name "Robinson" was actually named for an earlier Governor Robinson, who became the 1st Baron of Rosmead.
Category:Governors of Hong Kong|Robinson, William Category:1836 births|Robinson, William Category:1912 deaths|Robinson, William zh:羅便臣 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "William Robinson (Governor of Hong Kong)".
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
![[F]](/images/site.gif){kind=small}
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
All informatin on the site is © FamousChinese.com 2002-2005. Last revised: January 2, 2004 Are you interested in our site or/and want to use our information? please read how to contact us and our copyrights. To post your business in our web site? please click here. To send any comments to us, please use the Feedback. To let us provide you with high quality information, you can help us by making a more or less donation: |