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BOWEN, SIR GEORGE FERGUSON (18211849)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 343 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BOWEN, SIR GEORGE FERGUSON (18211849) , British colonial
governor
 , eldest son of the Rev. Edward Bowen, after-wards
rector
  of Taughboyne, Co. Donegal, was born on the 2nd of November 1821. Educated at Charterhouse school and Trinity College, Oxford, he took a first class in classics in 1844, and was elected a fellow of Brasenose. In 1847 he was chosen president of the university of Corfu. Having served as secretary of government in the Ionian Islands, he was appointed in 1859 the first
governor
  of Queensland, which colony had just been separated from New South Wales. He was interested in the exploration of Queensland and in the
establishment
  of a volunteer force, but incurred some unpopularity by refusing to sanction the issue of inconvertible
paper
  money during the
financial
  crisis of 1866. In 1867 he was made governor of New Zealand, in which position he was successful in reconciling the Maoris to the English
rule
 , and saw the end of the struggle between the colonists and the natives. Transferred to Victoria in 1872, Bowen endeavoured to reduce the expenses of the colony, and in 1879 became governor of Mauritius. His last official position was that of governor of Hong-Kong, which he held from 1882 to 1887. He was made a K.C.M.G. in 1856, a privy councillor in 1886, and received honorary degrees from both Oxford and
Cambridge
 . In Decembef 1887 he was appointed
chief
  of the royal commission which was sent to Malta with regard to the new constitution for
the island, and all the recommendations made by him were adopted. He died at Brighton on the 21st of February 1899, having been married twice, and having had a family of one son and four daughters. Bowen wrote Ithaca in 185o (London, 1854), translated into Greek in 1859; and
Mount
  Athos, Thessaly and Epirus (London, 1852); and he was the author of Murray's Handbook for Greece (London, 1854).
A selection of his letters and despatches, Thirty Years of Colonial Government (London, 1889), was edited by S. Lane-Poole.


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