Henry Turner Irving

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Sir Henry Turner Irving GCMG

Acting Governor of British Ceylon
In office 4 January 1872 – 4 March 1872
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	Hercules Robinson
Succeeded by	William Henry Gregory
Governor of Trinidad
In office 1874–1880
Preceded by	John Scott Bushe (acting)
Succeeded by	John Scott Bushe (acting)

Personal details
Born	1833
Died	1923 (aged 89–90)
Spouse	Emma Patty Barclay (m. 1884; died 1903)

Sir Henry Turner Irving, GCMG (1833–1923) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. He first served as acting Governor of British Ceylon.^[1] In 1873–1874, he served as Governor of the Leeward Islands. In 1874–1880, he served as Governor of Trinidad. In 1882–1887, he served as Governor of British Guiana.

He was the first Governor of Trinidad to occupy the Government House, now known as the President's House.^[2]

He entered the Colonial Office as a clerk in 1854. In 1858, while at the Colonial Office, he served as a special messenger to William Ewart Gladstone who was then the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. He then was appointed private secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary, Sir Frederic Rogers in 1862. In 1865, he was selected to accompany the Governor of Jamaica, John Peter Grant, as Colonial Secretary of that colony.^[3]

He married widow Emma Patty Johnson (née Barclay) on 24 June 1884. Lady Irving died in 1903. The couple had no children.^[4]

References

^ "Sri Lanka". Rulers.org. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
^ "Governors of Trinidad and Tobago: 1866-1891". Retrieved 8 September 2015.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Long and Worthy Colonial Career Ended by Death". The Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 19 December 1923. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
^ "Long and Worthy Colonial Career Ended by Death". The Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 19 December 1923. Retrieved 8 September 2015.

External links

Article on Henry Turner Irving in Stabroek News. Archived in landofsixpeoples.com
Henry Turner Irving in Stabroek News. Archived in landofsixpeoples.com

Government offices
Preceded by Hercules Robinson	Acting Governor of Ceylon 1872	Succeeded by William Henry Gregory
Preceded by Sir Benjamin Pine	Governor of the Leeward Islands 1873–1874	Succeeded by George Berkeley
Preceded by John Scott Bushe (acting)	Governor of Trinidad 1874–1880	Succeeded by John Scott Bushe (acting)
Preceded by Sir William Young	Governor of British Guiana 1882–1887	Succeeded by Charles Bruce

v t e Chief Secretary of Ceylon
Colonial Secretary	Cleghorn Boyd Arbuthnot Rodney Anstruther Tennent MacCarthy Gibson Irving Birch Douglas Smith Walker im Thurn Ashmore Clifford Booth Stubbs Clementi Murchison Fletcher Bourdillon
Chief Secretary	Bourdillon Tyrrell Wedderburn Wodeman Drayton

v t e ←Governors of British Ceylon
Military Governors	Agnew Stuart Doyle Bonnevaux de Meuron Andrews*
Governors	North Maitland Wilson Brownrigg Barnes Paget Campbell Barnes Wilson Wilmot-Horton Stewart-Mackenzie Campbell Emerson Tennent Torrington MacCarthy Anderson MacCarthy Ward Lockyer Wilkinson MacCarthy O'Brien Robinson Robinson Irving Gregory Longden Douglas Hamilton-Gordon Havelock Walker Ridgeway im Thurn Blake Clifford McCallum Stubbs Chalmers Stubbs Anderson Stubbs Manning Clementi Alexander Clifford Fletcher Stanley Bourdillon Thomson Tyrrell Stubbs Wedderburn Caldecott Moore**
Acting, Resident and Superintendent, became Governor-General of Ceylon*

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