Horace Byatt

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Governor of Trinidad and Tobago
In office
22 November 1924 – 1929
Preceded bySamuel Herbert Wilson
Succeeded byAlfred Claud Hollis
Personal details
Born22 March 1875
Tottenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Died8 April 1933(1933-04-08) (aged 58)
London, United Kingdom
SpouseOlga Margaret Campbell

Sir Horace Archer Byatt

British East Africa, becoming the first governor of the British mandate of Tanganyika. He was then the governor of Trinidad and Tobago
.

Biography

Byatt was born 22 March 1875 in

Colonial Secretary in Gibraltar.[4] From 1914 to 1916 he was lieutenant-governor and Colonial Secretary of Malta.[5]

From 1916 he was an administrator in

Tanganyika.[6] In Tanganyika he was responsible for the transfer of power between the Germans and the British, following World War I. Byatt was noted as a liberal governor with sympathies towards African interests.[7] He was given instructions that the territory was to be governed "in the interests of the Africans" and he was said to have "really taken those instructions to heart."[8] As a result of this his administration gained a reputation for being humane.[9] Byatt would not enforce any rule in the territory that he did not believe was helpful to the territory's African majority, nor would he allow "any non-African interest" to take precedence over that of the territory's African population.[10] After a French visitor, Pierre Marbois, "carelessly" ignored the advice of a guide and was mauled by a leopard in front of Byatt, Byatt "always took care to be cautious around wildlife." Byatt was also said to be "very fond of watching the elephants," though he did not hunt them, he merely liked to observe them.[11] He was also governor and commander in chief of Trinidad and Tobago between 1924 and 1929.[12]

Personal life

He married Olga Margaret Campbell of Argyll in 1924 and they had three sons:[13]

Byatt died 8 April 1933 in London, aged 58.[4]

Byatt's bush squirrel (

Paraxerus vexillarius var. byatti), a rodent endemic to Tanzania, was named after Byatt.[16]

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38477. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ "Past Governor of Trinidad and Tobago Sir Horace Byatt".
  3. ^ Experiment in Autobiography. Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain, H. G. Wells, 1934, p. 108
  4. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38477
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  5. ^ "No. 29011". The London Gazette. 18 December 1914. p. 10815.
  6. ISBN 0-8047-0147-4
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  7. ISBN 0-389-20170-7
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  8. ^ Sir Horace Archer Byatt: The Assertion and Consolidation of British Colonial Rule in Tanganyika Territory 1916-1924 by David Tyrrell Lloyd pg. 59
  9. ^ Sir Horace Archer Byatt: The Assertion and Consolidation of British Colonial Rule in Tanganyika Territory 1916-1924 by David Tyrrell Lloyd pg. 60
  10. ^ Sir Horace Archer Byatt: The Assertion and Consolidation of British Colonial Rule in Tanganyika Territory 1916-1924 by David Tyrrell Lloyd pg. 74
  11. ^ Sir Horace Archer Byatt: The Assertion and Consolidation of British Colonial Rule in Tanganyika Territory 1916-1924 by David Tyrrell Lloyd pg. 99-102
  12. ISBN 0-520-24732-9
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  13. ISBN 0-9711966-0-5
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  14. ^ "Obituary: Sir Hugh Campbell Byatt KCVO CMG". The Scotsman. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  15. ISBN 1-85743-217-7
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  16. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9
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