George Middlemore

Lieutenant-General George Middlemore CB (died 18 November 1850, Tunbridge Wells) was a British Army officer and the first Governor of Saint Helena.

Middlemore was the first governor of Saint Helena from 1836 to 1842 after its handover from the British East India Company to the Crown.

He was succeeded on 6 January 1842 by Colonel Hamelin Trelawny.

[1] Middlemore married Phillis Sophia Lobb (died 15 July 1854, Southborough).

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