Charles Alexander Harris















































Sir Charles Alexander Harris


KCMG CB CVO

Governor of Newfoundland

In office
1917–1922
Monarch George V
Prime Minister
Edward Morris
John Chalker Crosbie
William F. Lloyd
Michael Patrick Cashin
Richard Squires
Preceded by Walter Edward Davidson
Succeeded by William Allardyce

Personal details
Born 28 June 1855
Died
26 March 1947 (1947-03-27) (aged 91)
Relations
Stanley Harris (son)
Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge

Sir Charles Alexander Harris KCMG CB CVO (28 June 1855, Wrexham, Wales – 26 March 1947) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of Newfoundland from 1917 to 1922.


Harris spent much of his first ten years in St. John's, Newfoundland after his father, the Rev. George Poulett Harris, moved to the island when Charles was a young boy. Harris began his schooling in Newfoundland before returning to England[1] where he attended Richmond School in Yorkshire.[2]


Harris graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1878[3] and qualified for the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He began his career as a clerk in the Colonial Office in 1879.


From 1896 to 1899, he worked on a Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Venezuela, for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1900 New Year Honours list on 1 January 1900,[4][5] and was invested by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 1 March 1900.[6] From 1901 to 1904 he worked on another boundary commission between British Guiana and Brazil.[7]


Harris became Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office in 1917. The same year, he was knighted and appointed governor of Newfoundland. Harris wrote essays on the history of Newfoundland and was a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography. He was offered the position of Governor-General of Australia but turned it down in favour of retiring from the colonial service in 1922 at the end of his term as Governor of Newfoundland.[2]


In 1928 he edited for the Hakluyt Society Robert Harcourt's A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana by Robert Harcourt 1613.[7]



References





  1. ^ http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/colonial-charles-harris.php


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  3. ^ "Harris, Charles Alexander (HRS874CA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.


  4. ^ "New Year Honours". The Times (36027). London. 1 January 1900. p. 9.


  5. ^ "No. 27150". The London Gazette. 2 January 1900. p. 2.


  6. ^ "Court Circular". The Times (36079). London. 2 March 1900. p. 6.


  7. ^ ab Sir C. Alexander Harris, ed., A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana by Robert Harcourt 1613 (Hakluyt Society, 1928), p. 1




External links






  • Biography at Government House The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador





Preceded by
Sir Walter Davidson

Governor of Newfoundland
1917–1922
Succeeded by
Sir William Allardyce











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