Walter Joseph Sendall

Sir Walter Joseph Sendall GCMG (24 December 1832 – 16 March 1904[1][2]) was a British colonial governor.

Sendall was born in Langham, Suffolk and attended King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds.

[3] As Director of Public Instruction in Ceylon, he expanded the system of schools, teaching in English and the vernacular.

There he promoted road construction in Grenada, and founded a botanical garden.

[5] He suspended the Legislative Council on St. Vincent, rather than appoint black members he felt were unqualified.