Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — British Guiana's New Governor. [ARTICLE]

British Guiana's New Governor.

The new governor of British Guiana, Sir Augustus Hemming, has had no previous experience as a colonial governor. The career of Sir Augustus Hemming has so far been severely official. He was born in 1841, the son of a wellknown surgeon. After receiving his education at Epsom College, Mr. Hemming entered the colonial office in 1860 and served as private secretary successively to Lord Blanchard, Sir R. Herbert and Earl Cadogan. He became a principal clerk in 1879, and was sent on special missions to Paris in 1879 and 1881, to Berlin in 1887-’BB, and again to Paris in the following year. He was British delegate to the West African Conference, which met at Berlin in 1884, and was knighted In 1890.