Wodehouse, Philip, Hon, Captain RN

1833-1840 assistant colonial secretary and clerk of the executive and legislative councils; 1840-1843 assistant judge at Kandy; 1843-1851 government agent for the western province of Ceylon; 1851-1854 superintendent of British Honduras; 1854-1861 governor of British Guiana; 1858 special commissioner to Venezuela; 1862-1870 governor of the Cape of Good Hope and high commissioner for the transfrontier; 1862 KCB; 1872-1877 governor of Bombay; 1877 GCSI

Epithet: Colonial governor

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