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| Born | 1836 | ||||||
| Died | 1880 | ||||||
| Residence | Lagos, W. Africa | ||||||
| Occupation | armed services | ||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
Commissariat Staff
Ussher in list 1869.08.01 (right) Upher before (wrong)
Notes From Elsewhere
Ussher, Herbert Taylor (1836-1880) Colonial Governor
Governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana), the Governor of Tobago, and Consul-General in Borneo. He sent many specimens back to the British Museum. He was highly regarded by his contemporaries since he is honoured in the binomials of fish, butterflies and other taxa. Co-wrote with Richard Bowdler Sharpe of the BM
served in the Gold Coast as administrator at Cape Coast from 1867, under the Governor in Chief, Sierra Leone, then as Governor of the Gold Coast Colony from June 1879 until his death in December 1880. He is buried in London Market Cemetery, James Town, Accra
Governor of Tobago 1872-1875
Publications
External Publications
Notes on the ornithology of the Gold Coast, 1874
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
Public Records and Archives Administration Department of Ghana17:38:21 letters to Edmund Bannerman
BM: specimens (birds)
