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The Colonial Secretary of the Bahama Islands was the second highest official in the colony, usually appointed from Britain. The Colonial Secretary was a member of the Executive Council and frequently served as Acting Governor in the absence of the Governor.

In other colonies, the position was sometimes known as Chief Secretary. In the Bahamas, the Colonial Secretary was also known at one time as the Secretary of the Providence.[1] One of the responsibilities of the Secretary of the Providence from 1764 to 1950 was keeper of the public records.[1]

List of Colonial secretaries of the Bahamas

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The following is an incomplete list of colonial secretaries of the Bahamas:

Image Colonial Secretary Period in Office
Charles R. Nesbitt 1838-1867[2][3]
Charles Lempriere 1867-1868[2]
George Strahan 1868-1873[4]
John D'A Dumaresq 1873-1874[2]
Edward B. A. Taylor 1874[5][6]
Sir Henry M Jackson 1890-1893[2]
Sir George Melville 1894-1895[2]
John Spencer-Churchill 1895-1905[2]
William Hart-Bennett from abt 1911[7]-1914[8]
Henry E. W. Grant 1918-1923[2]
Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns 1924-1929[9]
Sir Charles Dundas 1929-1934[10][11]
Aubrey Kenneth Solomon 1939[12]
William L. Heape 1940-1943;
D. G. Stewart 1944[13]
Charles Percival Bethel 1943-1955[2]
Kenneth Walmsley 1956-1964[2][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b "About the Registrar General's Department". Bahamas Government. 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Mackie, Colin (2013). British Diplomats Directory (PDF). Gulabin.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
  3. ^ Saunders, Gail (2016). Race and class in the colonial Bahamas: 1880-1960 (1st ed.). Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8130-5155-0. Another industry was the growing of the sisal plant introduced by the colonial secretary C. R. Nesbitt in 1845.
  4. ^ The Almanac of Australia and official record (1882). George Robertson. 1882. pp. 101 (Tasmania).
  5. ^ Mackie, Colin (2013). British Diplomats Directory (PDF). Gulabin.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. TAYLOR, EDWARD B.A., C.M.G.: Colonial Secretary, Bahamas, 1874-1880
  6. ^ Taylor, E. B. A. (3 June 1885). "Government notice no 44". The Nassau Guardian. p. 2. E. B. A. Taylor, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, Nassau, 20th May, 1885.
  7. ^ "Passenger Movements". The Tribune newspaper. Nassau, Bahamas. 12 September 1911. Retrieved 2 September 2024. Hon W-Hart Bennett, C. M. G., Colonial Secretary, returned this morning from England via New York.
  8. ^ "Wife of Bahamas Official: Mrs. W. Hart Bennett who was Lost, Prominent in Life there" (PDF). New York Times. 31 May 1914. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  9. ^ Saunders, Gail (2016). Race and class in the colonial Bahamas: 1880-1960 (1st ed.). Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-8130-5155-0. Allan [sic] Burns, colonial secretary in the Bahamas during the mid- to late twenties...
  10. ^ "Former Secretary will be Governor". Miami Herald. Associated Press. 31 May 1937. p. 5. Retrieved 27 May 2024. As colonial secretary here from April, 1929 to July, 1934, Dundas received $5,500 and a small house allowance.
  11. ^ Dundas, Charles Cecil Farquharson (1955). African Crossroads. London and New York: Macmillan & Co (London); St Martin's Press (New York). pp. v–vii, 1, 126.
  12. ^ "The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List for 1939". Trove Australia. 1939-01-01. p. 242. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
  13. ^ Photo of Colonial Secretary and others (CO 1069-238-15), The National Archives UK, 1944, retrieved 2024-10-06
  14. ^ "Bahamas Colonial Secretary Charged with Indecent Assault on Jamaican Maid 1962". Bahamianology. 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
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