Glover , Sir , John Hawley , 1829-1885 , Knight , naval officer and colonial administrator , Captain

Born, 1829; entered the Royal Navy, 1841; served on the QUEEN, flagship of Sir Edward Owen in the Mediterranean; served on the PENELOPE off the west coast of Africa; Lt, 1851; appointed to the ROYALIST in the East Indies, 1852; moved to the SPHINX, and took part in the action near Donabew in Burma and was wounded, 4 Feb 1853; returned to England, 1853; appointed to the ROYAL GEORGE, 1853; first lieutenant of the paddle-sloop ROSAMOND, in which he served in the Baltic in the Crimean War, 1854; commander of the OTTER, 1855-1857; volunteered for Dr William Balfour Baikie's second ascent of the River Niger, 1857; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1857-1885; returned to England and was appointed to the ARROGANT, going out as flagship off the west coast of Africa, 1861; Commander, 1862; Colonial administration, Lagos: Secretary, 1864-1866 and Administrator, 1866-1872; Special Commissioner to the Eastern District of the Gold Coast, 1873; Governor of Newfoundland, 1876-1881; naval retired list with the rank of Captain, 1877; Governor of the Leeward Islands, 1881-1883; Governor of Newfoundland, 1883-1885; died, 1885.