William Henry Marsh

{{short description|British colonial administrator}}

{{redirect|William H. Marsh|the American diplomat|William H. Marsh (diplomat)}}

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| name = Sir William Henry Marsh

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| office = Administrator of Hong Kong

| term_start = March 1882

| term_end = March 1883

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| monarch = Queen Victoria

| predecessor = Sir Malcolm Struan Tonnochy

| successor = Sir George Bowen

| term_start2 = 1885

| term_end2 = 1887

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| predecessor2 = Sir George Bowen

| successor2 = Major-General William Cameron
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| death_date = 21 July 1906{{cite book|title=Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository ...|date=1907|publisher=Oliver & Boyd|page=338|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MFoKAQAAMAAJ&q=Sir+William+Henry+Marsh&pg=PA338|accessdate=2 September 2016|language=en}}

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Sir William Henry Marsh {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} (1827–21 July 1906; Chinese Translated Name: 馬殊; 馬師 also infrequently used) was a British colonial administrator, who governed Hong Kong twice. The first tenure started in March 1882, and ended in March 1883, when Sir George Bowen succeeded him as the 9th Governor of Hong Kong. The second tenure started in December 1885, and ended in April, 1887, when Major-General William Cameron succeeded him as Colonial Administrator.{{cite book|last1=Dod|first1=Charles Roger|last2=Dod|first2=Robert Phipps|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes|year=1904|page=632|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CpkfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA632|accessdate=2 September 2016|language=en}}

Memory

Marsh Road in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island and Marsh Street in Hung Hom were named after him.{{cite book | title=Signs of a Colonial Era | publisher=Hong Kong University Press | author=Andrew Yanne | author2=Gillis Heller | year=2009 | pages=55 | isbn=978-962-209-944-9}}

References

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{{s-ttl|title=Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong|years=1879–1887}}

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{{s-ttl|title=Administrator of Hong Kong|years=1882–1883}}

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{{s-ttl|title=Administrator of Hong Kong|years = 1885–1887}}

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Category:Chief secretaries of Hong Kong

Category:Governors of Hong Kong

Category:1827 births

Category:1906 deaths

Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

Category:British colonial governors and administrators in Asia

Category:19th-century Hong Kong people

Category:19th-century British politicians

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