MONTHLY, 
Till.]' COLOM 
UGUST 1ST, 1893. 
H.E, Litur.-GENERAL" 
Lieut. -Governor of Ceylon from 1st Fel 
and Governor from 18th January iov 
THENCB THROUGH 
■t-' TttE Hix:,l.-OOUNTEY,-AND BY. 
jsvi v!ie longest 
i.uinistration: first, 
0 years as Lieut- -Governor, and 
I 1831, for seven-years and nine 
continuously as Governor. These fact? 
-■t amount of invaluable work per 
/ hh' t,ei-Ti! of office, make us all the 
ime at our disposal on 
u have been able to get sc 
early career, distinguished 
' « before Sir Edward 
Amy LLsts and other 
<rks of rcfeicnce belonging to the early part of 
- wanting in . our local Libraries. 
have scanned a good many 
; "Annual Register," the results 
very scanty indeed. It may be 
E'lward Barnes that among 
• t of Military Governors 
v able a'l'l 'b>"f!n /nished 
iuinwtered Ceyl<> iirst 
of the century, 
■-iot who ever buckled sword, 
ids it is only needful to 
ience of his distinguished 
Mftior-Genera! TJavies was 
i.ag of words 
be satisfied wit I. 
■ ieral, Major- 
As a coin- 
How ning 
: i.ie downx; 
Kandyan Kingdom in Ceylon. 
Frr,n' the stotnw -I'^rr.-f Rjt. y^iv 
ne - 
h.' 
. '1 (Jeyion in i 
'vc than .'i" 
india, in 1831 ; exposui' 
.•a hard-fought fie 1 .sula and 
•n hiii; . •vi.au.-jtr, after, three y: 
ommander in-Chief in India, ret 
ill.:, li he died in England in Oct. J 
when only 62 years of age. The story we ; 
heard is that aftei- successfully contesting a 
for Parliament, — he was M.P. for Sudbury 
he died,— he caught cold while attonrlT'i,,- . 7 
at the Koyal Palace, Mliich ' 
illness. On his retirement fvon 
in .February 1831 — he was man. . 
Cross of tJie Bath, o.c.n. 
well M'ith the Civil autliovities there, 
too glad to exchange otti' < 
witiii Sir E. Paget, and t<; 
to Ceylon. h<- fr 
and vivid r 
