Henry Turner Irving

{{Short description|British politician (1833–1923)}}

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| name = Sir Henry Turner Irving

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| order = Acting

| office = Governor of British Ceylon

| term_start = 4 January 1872

| term_end = 4 March 1872

| predecessor = Hercules Robinson

| successor = William Henry Gregory

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| office2 = Governor of Trinidad

| term_start2 = 1874

| term_end2 = 1880

| predecessor2 = John Scott Bushe (acting)

| successor2 = John Scott Bushe (acting)

| monarch = Queen Victoria

| birth_date = 1833

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Sir Henry Turner Irving, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|GCMG|sep=,|size=100}} (1833–1923) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. He first served as acting Governor of British Ceylon.{{cite web|title=Sri Lanka|url=http://www.rulers.org/ruls3.html#sri_lanka|publisher=Rulers.org|accessdate=20 June 2013}} In 1873–1874, he served as Governor of the Leeward Islands. In 1874–1880, he served as Governor of Trinidad. In 1882–1887, he served as Governor of British Guiana.

He was the first Governor of Trinidad to occupy the Government House, now known as the President's House.{{cite web|title=Governors of Trinidad and Tobago: 1866-1891 |url=http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Research/SubjectGuide/GovernorsofTrinidadandTobago/GovernorsofTrinidadandTobago18661891/tabid/281/Default.aspx?PageContentID=464 |accessdate=8 September 2015 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

He entered the Colonial Office as a clerk in 1854. In 1858, while at the Colonial Office, he served as a special messenger to William Ewart Gladstone who was then the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. He then was appointed private secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary, Sir Frederic Rogers in 1862. In 1865, he was selected to accompany the Governor of Jamaica, John Peter Grant, as Colonial Secretary of that colony.{{cite news |author= |date=December 19, 1923 |title=Long and Worthy Colonial Career Ended by Death |newspaper=The Montreal Gazette |location=Montreal |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g2ktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RYoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6499%2C2470902 |accessdate=8 September 2015}}

He married widow Emma Patty Johnson (née Barclay) on 24 June 1884. Lady Irving died in 1903. The couple had no children.{{cite news |author= |date=December 19, 1923 |title=Long and Worthy Colonial Career Ended by Death |newspaper=The Montreal Gazette |location=Montreal |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g2ktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RYoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6499%2C2470902 |accessdate=8 September 2015}}