Herbert Taylor John Ussher CMG (22 April 1836 – 2 December 1880) was a British colonial administrator who became Governor of the Gold Coast (now Ghana).
In private life, he was a keen naturalist and wrote "Notes on the ornithology of the Gold Coast".
[1] On joining the colonial service he sailed for West Africa in 1864 to become the Private Secretary of the Governor of Lagos.
Ussher was subsequently made Collector of Customs in 1866 and then Administrator of the Cape Coast from 1867 to 1872.
The Rufous Fishing Owl, (Scotopelia ussheri) was named in his honour by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, after Ussher provided the type specimen to him.