Anglo-Irish soldier and first governor of British Hong Kong
Lieutenant-General The Right Honourable
Sir Henry Pottinger
Bt GCB
Portrait by Francis Grant, 1845
1st Governor of Hong Kong
In office 26 June 1843 – 8 May 1844
Monarch
Victoria
Lieutenant
Sir George D'Aguilar
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Sir John Davis
Governor of the Cape Colony
In office 27 January 1847 – 1 December 1847
Preceded by
Sir Peregrine Maitland
Succeeded by
Sir Harry Smith
Governor of Madras
In office 7 April 1848 – 24 April 1854
Preceded by
The Marquess of Tweeddale
Succeeded by
The Lord Harris
Personal details
Born
(1789-10-03)3 October 1789 Mount Pottinger, Ballymacarrett, Ireland
Died
18 March 1856(1856-03-18) (aged 66) Malta, British Empire
Resting place
Msida Bastion Historic Garden, Malta
Spouse
Susanna Cooke
(m. 1820)
Relations
Eldred Pottinger (nephew)
Children
4
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
Bombay Army
Years of service
1804–1856
Rank
Lieutenant-General
Battles/wars
Third Anglo-Maratha War First Opium War
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet, GCB, PC (Chinese: 砵甸乍, 璞鼎查; pinyin: Bōdiānzhà; 3 October 1789 – 18 March 1856), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator from Ulster who became the first Governor of Hong Kong.
Lieutenant-General Sir HenryPottinger, 1st Baronet, GCB, PC (Chinese: 砵甸乍, 璞鼎查; pinyin: Bōdiānzhà; 3 October 1789 – 18 March 1856), was an Anglo-Irish...
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distracted mainly by the Napoleonic Wars. In 1810, British Lieutenant HenryPottinger and Captain Charles Christie undertook an expedition from Nushki (Balochistan)...
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to China on 1 July 1997.[citation needed] The first governor, Sir HenryPottinger, 1st Bt., resided at the site of the now Former French Mission Building...
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disobedience and treating his instructions as "waste paper", dismissed him. HenryPottinger was appointed to replace him as plenipotentiary in May 1841. On 29...
Pretorius went to Grahamstown to seek an audience with the governor, Sir HenryPottinger, but he refused to see Pretorius or receive any communication from...
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to conclude the First Opium War, imperial commissioner Qiying and HenryPottinger concluded the Treaty of Nanjing aboard the British warship HMS Cornwallis...
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the four houses: Shaw, Currie, Pottinger or Cairns, named after past pupils: James Shaw, Donald Currie, HenryPottinger, and Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns...
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