Leslie Probyn

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Name Leslie Probyn		Died 1938

Sir Leslie Probyn (1862–1938) KCMG was an administrator for the British Empire.

He was the son of Edmund Probyn, JP and DL and educated at Charterhouse School. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1884.

He was an Attorney-General of British Honduras and Grenada and Governor of Sierra Leone, Barbados and Jamaica. He was made a KCMG in 1909.

Appointments

1893 - 1896 Attorney General of British Honduras

1896 - Attorney General of Grenada

12 April 1901 - 1904 Secretary and Acting High Commissioner Southern Nigeria

1904 - 1910 Governor of Sierra Leone

13 February 1911 - 1918 Governor of Barbados

11 June 1918 - 1924 Governor of Jamaica

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