Governor Collection

Steam Engine / Governor
Governor, or Fly-Ball Governor, invented by James Watt to regulate the supply of steam in order to preserve a nearly fixed engine speed

Gen C Gordon / Col Lith
GENERAL CHARLES GORDON British military Governor General of the Sudan

British India - East Bengal - Barisal - Indian Army unit and the British Governor and his wife. Barisal fell under the Bengal Nawabs, then colonial British India

Sir Donald Cameron, Governor of Tanganyika
Sir Donald Charles Cameron (1872-1948), Governor of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), seen here at Kigoma on 8 September 1928. He served as Governor from 1925 to 1931

Lord Dufferin, 8th Viceroy of India
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), 8th Viceroy of India, 1884-1888. He previously served as Governor General of Canada

ALVARADO, Pedro de (1485-1541). Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. 17th c. portrait. Colonial baroque. Painting. GUATEMALA. Antigua Guatemala. Museum of Colonial Art

Kolkata - The Belvedere - Residence of Governor of Bengal. Date: 1883

Ras Makonnen Walda-Mika el Guddisa, also Makonnen Wolde Mikael, Honorary KCMG (1852 1906) - a general and the governor of Harar province in Ethiopia, and the father of Tafari Makonnen

British Empire Marketing Board poster - Takoradi Harbour
Native Chiefs in Palaver, Takoradi Harbour in Ghana, West Africa. Native chiefs meeting a British official or governor of the area during a period when large parts of Africa still formed part of

Polo Team, Delhi 1916
A serious-looking British polo team, after winning a trophy, pose with His Excellency the Governor, who presumably has just presented the awards

HENRY MORGAN 1635-1688
Sir Henry Morgan, a Welsh buccaneer in the English service, carrying out many raids on the Spanish, favoured by Charles II and appointed Governor of Jamaica

Violet Bonham-Carter, c. 1915
Photographic portrait of Violet Bonham-Carter (1887-1969), nee Asquith, the Liberal politician and Governor of the BBC, pictured c.1915

George Calvert Baltimore
GEORGE CALVERT, lord BALTIMORE statesman and governor of Newfoundland - with his autograph

Fergusson / Silvy
SIR JAMES FERGUSSON, 6th Baronet of Kilkerran Soldier and Governor of Bombay

Martin de Mayorga (1721-1783). Spanish military officer, governor of the Captaincy General of Guatemala (1773-1779) and interim viceroy of New Spain (1779-1783). Colored engraving

Mauritius - Pieter Both Mountain
Pieter Both - the second highest mountain of Mauritius - named after Pieter Both, the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Date: circa 1910s

Neo-Sumerian. Statue of Gudea. Girsu, Iraq. 2120 BC. Cuneifo
Mesopotamia. Neo-Sumerian. Ruler Gudea of state of Lagash. Diorita statue. From Girsu (modern Telloh). Iraq. 2120 BC. Cuneiform inscription. Detail. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France

Cicero V Verres
Cicero leads the opposition against Verres, governor of Sicily, who will throw up his defence and take flight

Jesus before Pilate
Jesus is brought before Pilate, the Roman governor

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (ca. 1485 or ca. 1495-1541). Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. Utatlan battle, 1524. 18th century engraving. Colored

Eleanor of Provence
ELEANOR OF PROVENCE Queen of Henry III & mother of Edward I of England. She was joint governor in 1253 & organised military action

Talking on St Helena
Governor Hudson Lowe allows the exiled Napoleon to talk with a British admiral - but insist on being present

Founding of the Bank of England - proposed by William Paterson, the Bank of England was formed with Sir John Houblon as its first Governor, initially located in Mercers Hall. Date: 1694

French Attack on Chickasaw Nation
Under the governor of Louisiana, Bienville, leader of the Sourthern contingent in a French campaign against the Chickasaw nation

Yeoman Warders of the Tower on their way to Easter service at St. Peter ad Vincula Chapel in the Tower of London after their annual inspection by the governor of the Tower. Date: 1936

Cornwallis (Anon)
CHARLES, second earl and first marquess CORNWALLIS British military commander, governor-general of India. Date: 1738-1805

Iraq-Kuwait tensions 1961
Page from The Illustrated London News with an article written by Cyril Falls on the tensions in Kuwait arising over Iraqi claims to sovereignty over the oil-rich state

The Maharajas Palace at Srinagar, Kashmir, India
The Maharajas Palace (Sher Garhi Palace) at Srinagar, Kashmir, India on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus

Sir John Oglander
SIR JOHN OGLANDER deputy-governor of the Isle of Wight, whose royalist sympathies and loyalty to Charles I got him into trouble with the Commonwealth. Date: 1585 - 1655

Bank of England Founded
Proposed by William Paterson, the Bank of England is formed with Sir John Houblon its first Governor, initially located in Mercers Hall, then in Grocers Hall till 1734

Sir Henry Maxse
Sir Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley Maxse, who died in 1883 while in office as Governor of Newfoundland, having previously been Governor of Heligoland

General James Irvin
Portrait of General James Irvin. Whig candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania

Peshawar - Proclamation Parade
March past at the Proclamation Parade, Peshawar (then Northern India, now in Pakistan) Date: 1933

Margery Fry and students
Margery Fry (1874 - 1958), Principal of Somerville College, Oxford from 1926 to 1930, governor of the BBC from 1937 to 1939, and brother of the artist Roger Fry, at a reception given at County Hall

Sir James Brooke / Census
SIR JAMES BROOKE Governor of Labuan, later Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when the overseas population of the British Empire numbered 139 million

Zhangir Khan, governor of Kazakh Khanate
Zhangir Khan (Salqam Jangir Khan, 1610-1680), Kazakh Khan, governor of the Kazakh Khanate from 1629 to 1680. 17th century

Death of Michael Godfrey, first Deputy Governor of the recently founded Bank of England, on 17 July 1695, during the Siege of Namur (2 July to 4 September 1695, part of the Nine Years War)

Albrecht Gessler, Habsburg bailiff at Altdorf, 14th century
Albrecht Gessler, Habsburg bailiff at Altdorf and arch enemy of William Tell, 14th century. Il Governatore Gesslero. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes

Hursid Ahmed Pasha (died 1822), Ottoman governor
Hursid Ahmed Pasha (died 1822), Ottoman general and governor of the Morea Eyalet (the Peloponnese). Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More

Story of the Bengal Partition and its reversal
Page from The Graphic showing two maps of North East India. The top map shows Bengal partitioned in 1905, when a large part of its former area in the east was united with Assam to form the new

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi (1503-1572). Engraving. Colored
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi (1503-1572). Spanish admiral and governor. Engraving by Weber. The Artistic Illustration, 1886. Colored

Hernan Cortes (1488-1547). Spanish conquistador of the Aztec empire. He decided to sink his ships, which were anchored in the city of Villa Rica de Veracruz

Parchment commission, 2nd Lieutenant Henry Vaughan
Parchment commission document for 2nd Lieutenant Henry Vaughan, Madras Corps of Engineers, East India Company Date: 1852

Visit of Governor of Canton to Brigadier-General Crawford
Pierre Joseph Rossier. Views in China issued by Negretti and Zambra in 1859 and 1861. First Series and second series. These important images were the first commercial views of China to be sold in

Sir Robert Shore Milnes, Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada
Sir Robert Shore Milnes (1754-1837), 1st Baronet, Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada 1799-1805, portrait by George Romney Date: circa 1800

Grand Vizier, Kaim-Mekam, Reis Efendi and Khadjedhian
Turkey. Administration of the Ottoman Empire. From left to right: Grand Vizier, Kaim-Mekam, Reis Efendi and Khadjedhian, member of the Divan. Historia de Turquia, 1840

Major General Sir R. Talbot, K. C. B
A portrait charcoal drawing of Major General Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot, K.C.B, a British Army officer, member of parliament and the Governor of Victoria in Australia between 1904 and 1908

The Emperor of India with Lord Hardinge descending from the platform on arrival at Delhi to inspect the guard of honour, December 7, 1911

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