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524:, making Sierra Leone and Liberia coterminous. In 1886 Rowe was made an LL.D. by Aberdeen University. In August 1887 the Secretary of State for the Colonies said he had received a report from Rowe saying the chiefs of Jarra and Fogni, who had been suffering from raids by slave traders, had offered to place their territories under British protection.
363:, Cheshire. He was the youngest son of George Hambly Rowe, a Wesleyan minister, and Lydia Ramshall of London. He was educated at private schools, then studied medicine under Joseph Denton of Leicester and others. He qualified as a doctor in 1856. He was appointed to the army medical staff in 1862 and assigned to
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As governor in chief he opposed cession of the Gambia, and strongly opposed the
Colonial Office police of giving in to the demands from the French. He planned the expedition by administrator V. S. Gouldsbury to the upper Gambia River in 1881. On 20 April 1880 Rowe was made K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander
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of 1884–85, British activity in the interior increased and there was growing competition with the French, who had colonial ambitions in the same region. Rowe was given enlarged powers to annex land to the north and east of Sierra Leone. On 11 November 1885 he signed the
Havelock Draft Convention,
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Rowe arrived in Lagos in July 1862 and was soon appointed a judicial assessor in the chief magistrate's court and a slave commissioner, a difficult position. He afterwards became colonial surgeon. Rowe got on well with the local people, who would later call him "Old Red
Breeches", and was made a
478:. On 29 April 1887 Rowe returned to the Gambia as administrator, replacing the acting administrator Gilbert T. Carter. During his brief term of office various local rulers agreed to accept British protection. On 12 June 1887 Rowe was promoted to governor-in-chief of the
457:, had left the Gambia on 12 February 1875 and Captain Henry T. M. Cooper was acting as administrator. Samuel Rowe arrived on 2 July 1875, but transferred to Sierra Leone the next day, leaving Cooper to continue as acting administrator. Rowe left
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On 30 December 1884 Rowe was again appointed governor of the West Africa settlements in response to a special petition of the traders and others. Rowe took office in 1885, replacing A. E. Havelock. During his second term, following the
502:. He managed to avoid another war with the Ashantis through his diplomacy. In March 1883 Rowe issued an ordinance establishing registry offices for instruments affecting land in the Gold Coast Colony. In 1884 he was replaced by
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In Rowe's first tour of duty as governor of Sierra Leone in 1875–81 he was supported by the
Colonial Office in pursuing a policy of aggressive colonial intervention in the interior. He led two successful expeditions against the
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Sylvester Cole, members of the Sierra Leone elite, to study medicine at Aberdeen. King graduated in 1876 and returned to practice in Lagos, while Cole graduated in 1883 and entered government service in the Gold Coast.
482:. On 27 November 1887 he left the Gambia and was replaced by T. Risely Griffith as acting administrator. While governor-in-chief of the British West African Settlements he continued to act as governor of Sierra Leone.
343:. He was known for his ability to form pro-British relationships with the local people. He was in favour of a vigorous programme of expansion from the coast into the interior in response to French activity in the
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Settlements on the Gold Coast and of the Gold Coast Colony, in Force April 7th, 1887: With an Appendix Containing the Rules, Orders in Council, and Proclamations of Practical Utility, and an
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in Lagos in 1867. In 1869 he also was a magistrate and clerk of the council of Lagos. He was promoted staff surgeon in the army on 4 July 1870. He returned for a stay in
England, then was dispatched to the
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Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India: A Statistical Record of the Resources and Trade of the Colonial and Indian Possessions of the British Empire
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453:. The Gambia was governed from Sierra Leone during this period. Surgeon Major Rowe was appointed administrator of the Gambia in June 1875. The former administrator,
465:, Sierra Leone, as acting governor. Cooper died on 9 January 1877 and on 30 March 1877 Surgeon Major Valesius S. Gouldsbury arrived to take office as administrator.
432:. In 1875, he became colonial surgeon of the Gold Coast colony. Rowe retired from the army on 4 December 1876 with the honorary rank of brigade-surgeon.
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in 1881. The acting governor got news of
Havelock's appointment from a foreign consul some weeks before this was confirmed by the Colonial Office.
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in West Africa. Rowe married
Susannah, daughter of William Gatliff of Hawker Hall, Whitby, Yorkshire. They had one son, who died young.
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commandant of the eastern districts. He was appointed special commissioner to make a treaty with the town of
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of the Order of St Michael and St George). He was replaced in Sierra Leone by
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607:Colonial System of Administration in Gambia
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359:Samuel Rowe was born on 23 March 1835 at
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347:region, at times in opposition to
59:June 1875 – 30 March 1877
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428:in 1874 for his services in the
855:Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
142:British West Africa settlements
122:Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright
70:Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright
934:Perfect, David (27 May 2016),
871:"ROWE, Sir SAMUEL (1835-1888)"
424:volunteers. He was appointed
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869:Harris, C. Alexander (1897),
339:and governor-general of the
961:Wai, Z. (5 December 2012),
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510:West Africa Settlements
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310:Samuel Rowe (antiquary)
217:West Africa settlements
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436:Colonial administrator
500:W. Brandford Griffith
494:Gold Coast and Lagos
252:John Meredith Maltby
910:Africans in Britain
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461:to take office in
430:Anglo-Ashanti wars
418:John Hawley Glover
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522:Mano River
447:the Gambia
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