Person
Romilly, Hugh Hastings (1856 - 1892)
CMG
- Born
- 15 March 1856
London, England - Died
- 27 July 1892
London, England - Occupation
- Governor and Explorer
Summary
Hugh Romilly was administrator of New Guinea 1884-1885 and for 3 months in 1886 and deputy administrator July 1887-September 1888. He wrote "A True Story of the Western Pacific" (1882), "The Western Pacific and New Guinea" (1886) and "From My Verandah in New Guinea" (1889) and his "Letters from the Western Pacific and Mashonaland" were published by his brother Samuel in 1893. Romilly was a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).
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Chronology
- 1874 - 1879
- Career position - Joined Melly & Co. in Liverpool, UK
- 1879 - 1881
- Career position - Staff of Sir Arthur Gordon - Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific
- 1880
- Career position - Magistrate and Private Secretary to Gordon in Fiji
- 1884 - 1886
- Career position - Administrator in New Guinea
- 1887 - 1888
- Career position - Deputy to John Douglas (ten months)
- 1888 - 1890
- Career position - British Consul in New Hebrides (fourteen months)
- February 1890
- Career position - Returned to England and resigned from the Colonial Office to lead a prospecting expedition to Mashonaland, Africa.
Published resources
Book Sections
- Langdon, Robert, 'Romilly, Hugh Hastings (1856-1892)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 56-57. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060062b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5931066. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94321425. Details
- 'Romilly, Hugh Hastings (1856-1892)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-613821. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 April 2022
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