Sentence examples for colonial governors from inspiring English sources
Another was that Lord Dartmouth, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, advised the colonial governors to secure their military supplies, and prohibited importation of further supplies of powder.
Singapore's colonial governors encouraged workers to migrate from Britain's colonies in South Asia; they also welcomed ethnic-Chinese traders and labourers who moved from mainland China and from across South-East Asia, and who eventually formed the island's largest single ethnic group.In 1959 Britain granted Singapore a large degree of self-rule.
In theory, considerable power was vested in colonial governors (most of whom were crown-appointed, though the governors in proprietary colonies were chosen by the proprietor, and those of the corporate colonies [Rhode Island and Connecticut] were elected).
Britain used to dispatch colonial governors.
Colonial governors used market incentives to motivate early settlers in Virginia and Massachusetts.
Colonial governors, Dutch and then British, tried various enterprises: a sawmill, a pheasant preserve, tobacco.
C. 1588 Devon?, England March 15 , 1665Boston, Massachusetts John Endecott, Endecott also spelled Endicott (born c. 1588, probably Devon, Eng. died March 15 , 1665 Boston) colonial governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and cofounder of Salem, Mass., under whose leadership the new colony made rapid progress.
Belcher served simultaneously for over a decade as colonial governor of the British colonies of New Hampshire (1729 1741) and Massachusetts (1730 1741) and later for ten years as governor of New Jersey (1747 1757).
"I felt rather like the representative of a leper colony attending the annual garden party of a colonial governor," was how he summed up his reception.
He felt, he said later, "like the representative of a leper colony attending the annual garden party of a colonial governor".
Won at the bayonet-point of the kilted Highlanders, the empire was to a great degree managed by Scots, including, between 1885 and 1939, a third of Britain's colonial governors-general.
