About Henry Turner Irving
Lived 1833 – 1923 (aged 89–90). Henry Turner Irving was a British politician and colonial administrator.
Sir Henry Turner Irving, (1833–1923) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. He first served as acting Governor of British Ceylon. 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.
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.
He married on 24 June 1884 widow Emma Patty Johnson, née Barclay, daughter of Sir David Barclay, 10th Baronet. Lady Irving died in Folkestone on 5 February 1903. The couple had no children.
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British politician (1833–1923)
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