(1886–1887), and Hong Kong (1887–1891). Des Vœux was born as the eighth of nine children of Reverend Henry Des Vœux and his second wife Fanny Elizabeth Hutton...

Kong, Sir William Des Vœux. The name was sometimes spelt with the ligature œ in pre-war documents but is nowadays spelt officially as Des Voeux Road. Beginning...

Des Vœux or De Voeux may refer to: Sir William Des Vœux (1834–1909), a British colonial governor Sir Henry des Voeux (1822–1894), 5th Baronet, English...

Phillip Vinchon Des Voeux, 1st Baronet (c. 1746–1814) – grandfather of Sir George William Des Vœux, Governor of Hong Kong Sir Charles Des Voeux, 2nd Baronet...

brother of cricketer Henry Des Voeux, half-brother of colonial administrator William Des Voeux, and grandson of Sir Charles Des Voeux, 1st Baronet. His great-grandfather...

Des Voeux, 6th Baronet. Charles Frederick Des Voeux, a Royal Navy officer lost in the 1845 Franklin Expedition, was his brother and William Des Vœux,...

Assembly of Manitoba Francis Pigou (1832–1916), Anglican priest Sir William Des Vœux (1834–1909), British colonial governor, Governor of Fiji (1880–1885)...

Medicine, 2007 Geoffrey Hinton (faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2024 William Des Vœux (B.A. 1858) – Governor of Fiji, 1880–85; Governor of Newfoundland,...

to 1797. His son, Charles, succeeded in his title. Des Voeux was the grandfather of William Des Vœux. E. M. Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to...

Cricket Club. From 1881 to 1883, Amherst was private secretary to Sir William Des Vœux, Governor of Fiji. In June 1885, he emigrated to Western Australia...

and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Gordon was born at Argyll House, his family's townhouse...

honour of Sir George William Des Vœux, a former Governor General of Newfoundland and Labrador and Governor of Hong Kong. Des Voeux Island in the Atlas...

named Des Voeux Road (德輔道) after Sir George William Des Vœux, the 10th Governor of Hong Kong. The road was renamed "Chatham Road" in 1890, after William Chatham...

Maxse, Governor (1881–1883) John Hawley Glover, Governor (1883–1885) William Des Vœux, Governor (1886–1887) Henry Arthur Blake, Governor (1887–1889) John...

Repository. Volume 11. Canton. 1842. pp. 674–676, 685. Norton-Kyshe, James William (1898). The History of the Laws and Courts of Hong Kong. Volume 1. London:...

March 1893 The Right Honourable Robert William Duff Governor of New South Wales 4 June 1893 Sir George William Des Vœux Former Governor of Hong Kong 4 July...

(link) Saint-Méry, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de (1784), Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amerique sous le vent... (in French), L'Auteur,...

Manchester University Press,1991. p. 107. ISBN 9780719030352. Olsen, William C. (1 January 2002). ""Children For Death". Money, Wealth, and Witchcraft...

England from January 1875 to January 1876, when the acting governor, Sir William Stawell, showed "too little flexibility in the exercise of his temporary...

complete; the following list is a partial list. Sir William Des Vœux, KCMG (1889–1891) Sir William Robinson, KCMG (1891–1898) Sir Frederick Lugard, GCMG...

chosen as speaker. Sir William Des Vœux served as colonial governor of Newfoundland until 1887. Sir Henry Arthur Blake succeeded Des Vœux as governor. In 1887...

to the medal. Transferring from Africa to Asia, he was ADC to Sir William Des Vœux, Governor of Hong Kong, from 1889 to 1890, and was promoted captain...

Davies (1824–1902), Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab (1871–1877) William Des Vœux (1834–1909), Administrator of St Lucia, 1869–1878, Governor of Fiji...

1883, it was unveiled in November 1887 by the newly arrived Governor William Des Vœux and stood "above the second terrace looking down on the fountain"....

Bowen 1887 William Des Vœux Western medical science reaches Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese 1888 Founding of Peak Tram 1891 William Robinson 1894...

21 January 1885 – 1 January 1887 Monarch Victoria Preceded by Sir William Des Vœux Succeeded by Sir Charles Mitchell Acting Governor of Fiji In office...

2 Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon (1829–1912) 19 August 1875 1880 3 Sir William Des Vœux (1834–1909) 20 December 1880 21 January 1885 — John Bates Thurston...

two years after the completion of 'Stonyhurst', the Governor Sir William Des Vœux described the building of houses on the Peak in these words: “every...

1883 52. Sir John Hawley Glover (second time) KCMG 1883 1885 54. Sir William Des Vœux 1886 1887 55. Sir Henry Arthur Blake KCMG FRGS FRCI 1887 1889 56. Sir...

Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 10th Baronet, 1904–1925), daughter of Sir William Des Vœux. Sir Aubrey died in 1931, six months after contacting pleurisy. Manchester...