Edward Brandis Denham (1876-1938) was a British colonial administrator. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1935–1938), British Guiana (1930–1935), and The Gambia (1928–1930). He was appointed Governor of Jamaica by the colonial office in 1935. His short three year stint was troubled with political and social unrest. There had been serious riots at the docks in Kingston and Falmouth in May and October 1935. 1938 opened with a cane cutters' strike on Serge Island Estate in the parish of St.

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  • Edward Brandis Denham (1876-1938) was a British colonial administrator. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1935–1938), British Guiana (1930–1935), and The Gambia (1928–1930). He was appointed Governor of Jamaica by the colonial office in 1935. His short three year stint was troubled with political and social unrest. There had been serious riots at the docks in Kingston and Falmouth in May and October 1935. 1938 opened with a cane cutters' strike on Serge Island Estate in the parish of St. Thomas. In response, Governor Denham fired off anxious telegrams to the colonial office in London. To head off trouble, Governor Denham appointed commissions to investigate wage rates and unemployment, followed by emergency public works initiatives. The Governor found the islands' problems complex and difficult to solve. Denham thought the real problems of Jamaica were less economic than political. The recent emergence of a group of well-educated mixed-raced Jamaican politicians posed the main threat to the delicately balanced equilibrium of British colonial rule. Imperialism and democracy were as difficult to merge as black and white, but the British genius for compromise and putting blind eyes to unpleasant facts had indeed brought forth a workable system. It was that system of democratic ruling of native peoples which Sir Edward Denham believed in and practised. Denham died of a heart attack at Kings House, the Governors' residence, in 1938. In 1944, six years after his death, Jamaicans were granted universal adult suffrage, an idea initiated by Governor Edward Denham. An area in the western section of Kingston called 'Denham town' is named after him.
  • Sir Edward Brandis Denham KCMG (1922) GCMG (1935), KBE (1925) war ein britischer Gouverneur unter anderem von Gambia und repräsentierte König Georg V. und später König Eduard VIII. in der Kolonie Gambia. Denham genoss seine Schulbildung am Malvern College und am Merton College in Oxford. Anschließend trat als Kadett in den Kolonialdienst ein und wurde im November 1899 in Ceylon eingesetzt. Später, von 1920 bi 1923, war im Kolonialbüro von Mauritius tätig und danach in verschiedenen Positionen in Kenia. Bei seiner Einsetzung war er auch als stellvertretender Gouverneur tätig. Am 29. November 1928 wurde Denham Gouverneur der Kolonie Gambia, wo er bis 11. September 1930 tätig war. Bis 1934 war er Gouverneur von Britisch-Guayana und wurde am 24. Oktober 1934 Gouverneur von Jamaika. Denham starb an einem Herzinfarkt am 2. Juni 1938 im Kings House, dem Gouvernourssitz in Kingston (Jamaika).
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  • Edward Brandis Denham (1876-1938) was a British colonial administrator. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1935–1938), British Guiana (1930–1935), and The Gambia (1928–1930). He was appointed Governor of Jamaica by the colonial office in 1935. His short three year stint was troubled with political and social unrest. There had been serious riots at the docks in Kingston and Falmouth in May and October 1935. 1938 opened with a cane cutters' strike on Serge Island Estate in the parish of St.
  • Sir Edward Brandis Denham KCMG (1922) GCMG (1935), KBE (1925) war ein britischer Gouverneur unter anderem von Gambia und repräsentierte König Georg V. und später König Eduard VIII. in der Kolonie Gambia. Denham genoss seine Schulbildung am Malvern College und am Merton College in Oxford. Anschließend trat als Kadett in den Kolonialdienst ein und wurde im November 1899 in Ceylon eingesetzt.
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  • Edward Brandis Denham
  • Edward Brandis Denham
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