Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan CMG (27 December 1827 – 9 July 1881), often T(homas) F(itzgerald) Callaghan, was an Irish-born colonial administrator who served as Governor of the British colonies of Labuan, the Falkland Islands, and the Bahamas, and Administrator of The Gambia.
[1] Callaghan arrived in Hong Kong on 25 November 1860, and was gazetted as its Chief Magistrate the following day.
Davies, the previous Chief Magistrate, stated that Callaghan broke down "under the responsibility of the peculiar and intricate duties which encountered him".
[3] Callaghan was instructed to maintain friendly relations with Sarawak, which was ruled by White Rajah James Brooke, however opposed colonial status for Sarawak, because "it suffered from want of population and cultivation", and proposed that mass Chinese immigration would rectify this within two centuries.
[1][3] In May 1871, he was appointed Administrator of The Gambia, and arrived there in August of that year, however sickness again forced an early departure in April 1872.