Sir Bickham Sweet-Escott | |
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3rd Administrator of the Seychelles | |
In office August 1899 – November 1903 | |
Preceded by | Henry Cockburn Stewart |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Governor) |
1st Governor of the Seychelles | |
In office November 1903 – 1904 | |
Monarch | Edward VII |
Preceded by | Himself (as Administrator) |
Succeeded by | Walter Edward Davidson |
4th Governor of British Honduras | |
In office 15 April 1904 – 1906 | |
Monarch | Edward VII |
Preceded by | David Wilson |
Succeeded by | Eric John Eagles Swayne |
34th Governor of the Leeward Islands | |
In office 1906–1912 | |
Preceded by | Clement Courtenay Knollys |
Succeeded by | Henry Hesketh Bell |
9th High Commissioner for the Western Pacific | |
In office 25 July 1912 – 10 October 1918 | |
Preceded by | Francis Henry May |
Succeeded by | Cecil Hunter-Rodwell |
10th Governor of Fiji | |
In office 25 July 1912 – 10 October 1918 | |
Preceded by | Francis Henry May |
Succeeded by | Cecil Hunter-Rodwell |
Personal details | |
Born | Bath, Somerset, England | 20 August 1857
Died | 9 April 1941 Worthing,[1] England | (aged 83)
Spouse(s) |
Mary Jane Hunt, Lady Sweet-Escott
(m. 1881) |
Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott, KCMG (20 August 1857 – 9 April 1941) was a British colonial administrator who was in turn governor of the British Seychelles, British Honduras, British Leeward Islands and British Fiji.