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Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Governors-General (716 words) |
 | Employed (1750) as a clerk by the East India Company, he soon became manager of a trading post in Bengal. |
| His success as lieutenant governor of New Brunswick (1848-54) led to his appointment as governor-general of Canada in 1854. |
| He served as governor of Jamaica (1842-46) and in 1847 was appointed governor-general of Canada. |
| Governors of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period (3240 words) |
| Governors of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period |
| JOSÉ MALCAMPO Y MONJE—Marques de San Rafael and rear-admiral; becomes governor, June 18, 1874; conquest of Joló, 1876; given title of count of Mindanao, December 19, 1876; mutiny of artillerymen; term as governor, June 18, 1874-February 28, 1877; given titles of count of Joló and viscount of Mindanao, July 20, 1877. |
| RAMON BLANCO—Becomes governor, 1893; electric light established in Manila, 1895; formation of Katipunan society; outbreak of insurrection, August 30, 1896; Blanco opposed by ecclesiastics; term as governor, 1893-December 9 (date of royal decree removing him), 1896. |
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