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He was Confidential Secretary to the Governor, the late Sir George 

 Grey, and accompanied hirn to New Zealand during his second term 

 as Governor there. He returned to the Cape in 1862 as Arbitrator in 

 the " Mixed Commission Court " for the suppression of slavery, and 

 was promoted to be High Commissioner of it until it was abolished 

 in 1870, when he finally left the Cape. For a short time he joined the 

 Foreign Office in London, but in 1872 he was sent as Consul to Para 

 at the mouth of the Amazon. He remained there only nine months 

 when he was recalled to England on being appointed as special Royal 

 Commissioner to report upon the offered cession of Fiji, and was 

 appointed Consul of Fiji and Tonga. After the formal annexation of 

 Fiji he acted as " Administrator of the Government " for several 

 months until the arrival of the first Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon. 



He arrived in Fiji on New Year's morning 1874, and left it in June 

 1876, on being appointed British Consul at Noumea in New Cale- 

 donia. He lived here for some time, until he finally retired from Her 

 Majesty's Service on pension in January 1890. For his services in 

 Fiji, he received the decoration of Companion of St. Michael and 

 St George. 



On his return to England he went to reside at Budleigh Salterton, 

 S. Devon. His house, being fairly large, allowed him to make one of 

 the rooms into a museum, where he placed on the walls a valuable 

 ethnological collection, which I understand has been purchased for 

 the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 



He collected principally land and freshwater shells, and being 

 naturally enthusiastic in his work, with the facilities he possessed, he 

 very soon had such a collection as is very seldom seen outside a 

 public museum. When I visited him for a short time in 1894, he 

 told me with pride that his collection of shells numbered more than 

 8,000 species, and that he had never bought one in his life. He had 

 either collected them himself, or exchanged with others, as he had 

 large quantities of duplicates, having been in districts where shell life 

 was prolific. 



He knew personally, or had corresponded with, all the older con- 

 chologists, such as Adams, Cuming, Benson, Wollaston, Nevill, Garrett, 

 etc., etc. He not only collected in all the districts where he had 

 resided, but also in Madagascar, Mauritius (with the late Sir Henry 

 Barclay), Comoro Islands, and also in many of the South Sea Islands, 

 including the New Hebrides, etc. 



Whilst at the Cape he wrote the " Birds of South Africa," since 

 much enlarged by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe. He was also a constant 

 contributor to the "Field" and other sporting papers. 



