Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald CallaghanCMG (27 December 1827 – 9 July 1881), often T(homas) F(itzgerald) Callaghan, was an Irish-born colonial administrator who served as Governor of the British colonies of Labuan, the Falkland Islands, and the Bahamas, and Administrator of The Gambia.
Callaghan arrived in Hong Kong on 25 November 1860, and was gazetted as its Chief Magistrate the following day.[2] H.T. Davies, the previous Chief Magistrate, stated that Callaghan broke down "under the responsibility of the peculiar and intricate duties which encountered him". The following July he sailed for the Crown Colony of Labuan, to become its governor.[3]
Callaghan was instructed to maintain friendly relations with Sarawak, which was ruled by White Rajah James Brooke, however opposed colonial status for Sarawak, because "it suffered from want of population and cultivation", and proposed that mass Chinese immigration would rectify this within two centuries.[4]
In 1866, sickness forced him to return to England, where he married Alice Arnold, the daughter of George Matthews Arnold, an eight-time Mayor of Gravesend.[1][3]
In May 1871, he was appointed Administrator of The Gambia, and arrived there in August of that year, however sickness again forced an early departure in April 1872.[1]
He arrived in the Bahamas in February 1881, but departed for England within a few months again due to sickness. On a stopover in New York, however, he died.[1][3]
Referencesedit
^ abcdPerfect, David (2016). Historical Dictionary of The Gambia (5th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 72. ISBN9781442265264.
^Norton-Kyshe, James William (1898). The History of the Laws and Courts of Hongkong. Vol. 1. p. 658. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
^ abcWilliams, Stephanie (2011-04-07). Running the Show: The Extraordinary Stories of the Men who Governed the British Empire. Viking. ISBN9780670918089. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
^Wright, Leigh R. (1988-07-01). The Origin of British Borneo. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN9789622092136. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
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