William Charles Fleming Robertson

Sir William Charles Fleming Robertson KCMG (1867– 27 June 1937[1]) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of Barbados from 1925 to 1932.[2]

Life

Robertson graduated B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin in 1889.[3] He became inspector of schools in the Gold Coast in 1898.[4] He took other posts there as his career developed.[2] In 1914 he was acting governor of the Gold Coast.[5]

In 1915 Robertson was transferred to Gibraltar, where he was Colonial Secretary; and he was moved in 1917 to Malta, serving to 1925 as Lieutenant Governor.[2][6] There he warned against a rise in the bread price in 1919, ahead of riots.[7]

Robertson died in Gibraltar.[8]

Family

Robertson married in 1909 Elizabeth Dora Whelan, daughter of the Rev. Ernest Whelan, of Kilbride, County Wicklow.[9][10] Robertson was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.[11] Lady Robertson lived in a Hampton Court Palace apartment from 1947 to 1974.[6] Their daughter Beatrice May (died 2010 at age 93) married J. A. G. Gribble of the Lancashire Fusiliers.[12][13]

Notes
  1. Profile of Sir William Charles Fleming Robertson
  2. Hill, Robert A.; Garvey, Marcus (1991-05-21). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VII: November 1927-August 1940. University of California Press. pp. 275 note 45. ISBN 9780520072084. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  3. "Calendar". Internet Archive. Dublin: University Press. May 1904. p. 301. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  4. Office, Great Britain. Colonial (1906). The Colonial Office List for ...: 1907. Harrison. p. 670.
  5. Strachan, Hew (2004-10-14). The First World War in Africa. OUP Oxford. p. 15. ISBN 9780199257287. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  6. Grace & Favour: A handbook of who lived where in Hampton Court Palace 1750 to 1950 (PDF) at p. 102
  7. Galizia, Paul Caruana (2016-12-20). The Economy of Modern Malta: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 93. ISBN 9781137565983. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  8. The Crown Colonist. Crown Colonist. 1937. p. 409.
  9. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1973. p. 2430.
  10. Kelly's (1969). Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. p. 1685.
  11. Northern Whig. 29 June 1937. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. Chronicle. 1941. p. 235.
  13. "Gribble - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
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