The river is named after Colonel Robert Torrens, chairman of the colonial commissioners and a significant figure in the city's founding.
In NFD, Colonial Annual Report only mentions Marsabit District as the possible location to establish Maendelo ya Wanawake organization.93 Even so, the implementation process in Marsabit was largely left to the discretion of the colonial District Commissioners.
December 19 , 1824Rosmead, Ireland October 28, 1897 London, England Sir Hercules Robinson, in full Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, also called (from 1896) 1st Baron Rosmead of Rosmead and of Tafelberg (born Dec. 19, 1824, Rosmead, County Westmeath, Ire. died Oct. 28, 1897, London, Eng)., British colonial governor who was high commissioner in South Africa in 1880 89 and 1895 97.
During World War II he joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French government, serving successively as commissioner of finance, colonies, and foreign affairs and becoming colonial minister in 1944.
In 1675, when King Philip's War broke out, Dudley was a commissioner who accompanied the colonial troops into the field against the Indians.
Rhodes began advocating the annexation by Britain of Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1887 by applying pressure to a number of senior colonial officials, most prominently the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Sir Hercules Robinson, and Sidney Shippard, Britain's administrator in the Bechuanaland Crown colony (comprising that country's southern part).
His The History of the Dividing Line, a witty satirical account of a 1728 survey of the North Carolina Virginia boundary, for which he was appointed one of the commissioners, is among the earliest colonial literary works, along with his accounts of similar expeditions, A Journey to the Land of Eden and A Progress to the Mines, published in The Westover Manuscripts (1841).
He introduced a commissioner of Indian affairs into the colonial government, a post that survived until the crown assumed the duties of managing Indian affairs in the 1750s.
Upon his return home, Shelby and his father were named commissioners to negotiate a treaty between colonial settlers and the Chickamauga.
Chief Commissioner of Punjab John Lawrence, the most important colonial officer of the province, was in Rawalpindi on his way to the hill station Murree with his family, something that he did every summer to escape the heat of Punjab.
