John Hawley Glover
1829–85
Naval officer and colonial administrator. Entered the Royal Navy in 1841 and served at sea until 1862. Harbour master and acting governor of Lagos, 1861–4; secretary, 1864–6; administrator, 1866–72. Special commissioner to the eastern district of the Gold Coast, 1873; took part in the Second Anglo-Asante War. Governor of Newfoundland, 1876–81; of the Leeward Islands, 1881–3; of Newfoundland again, 1883–5. Knighted, 1874.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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