George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy

A yellow fever epidemic was raging when D'Arcy arrived in Bathurst in September 1859, but his appeals for extra funding to improve sanitation in the colony were unsuccessful.

D'Arcy's efforts to improve the condition of the Liberated Africans in Bathurst were undermined by local merchants and some members of his own administration.

In 1866, Lieutenant Colonel George D'Arcy, commanding officer of the 3rd West India Regiment and Governor of the Gambia, marched to confront a rebellious Marabout leader named Amar Faal at Tubabakolong (also known as Tubab Kolon), a stockaded town on the river's northern bank.

Lt-Col. D'Arcy led 270 officers and men of that battalion together with around 500 warriors from the Soninke tribe to Tubabakolong, attacking the town on 30 June.

In the 1866 reorganization of the British West African Settlements, D'Arcy was removed as governor, though he stayed on as administrator until Charles Patey arrived in December 1866.