John Pope Hennessy
Brown's apology 'not enough'
...child migrants' pain and suffering SORRY: Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets with former child migrant John Hennessy who is holding a photograph of his mother May Mary Hennessy
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History of Barbados
...Confederation. To date all have failed, and one proposal even led to deadly riots in 1876 when Governor John Pope Hennessy tried to pressure Barbados' politicians to integrate more...
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Governor of Hong Kong
...Patten), governors resided at Government House . John Francis Davis - first Sinologist to serve as Governor John Pope Hennessy - first Irishman to serve as Governor Edward Youde -...
History of the British West Indies
This opposition to closer federation was found mainly in the upper class of society. When Governor John Pope Hennessy was sent in 1875 to Barbados to organize a closer, formal...
Chris Patten
...MP to become a Governor of Hong Kong: that was John Bowring (Governor of Hong Kong 1854-1859). Also, John Pope Hennessy (Governor of Hong Kong 1877-1882), was a Conservative MP before...
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
...content to settle difficulties as they arose. In 1886, Robinson investigated the charges brought against Sir John Pope Hennessy, governor of Mauritius, and decreed his suspension...
Sino-Mauritian
Some members of the colonial government thought that further migration should be prohibited, but Governor John Pope Hennessy, recognising the role that Sino-Mauritians played in...
Penang Po Leung Kuk
In 1878, a group of local Chinese in Hong Kong presented a petition to the Governor of Hong Kong, John Pope Hennessy to set up the Po Leung Kuk to rescue the kidnapped victims. The main...
Ernst Johann Eitel
...Missionary Society. He then became Inspector of Schools in Hong Kong and later Chinese Secretary to Sir John Pope Hennessy. In 1866 he married Mary Anne Winifred Eaton of the Female...
James Pope-Hennessy
...Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1960. He also wrote a life of his grandfather, the colonial governor John Pope Hennessy under the title Verandah, followed by an account of the...
John Pope Hennessy
...Barbados, Hennessy was appointed as Governor of Hong Kong, a position from which he served until 1882. During his tenure, Hennessy realized that the Chinese people, who were treated as...
Po Leung Kuk
...Kong. On 8 November 1878, a group of local Chinese presented a petition to the Governor of Hong Kong, John Pope Hennessy to set up Po Leung Kuk to rescue the kidnapped victims. Thus, 8...
