William Rice Mulliner (11 June 1834 – 25 July 1863) was a British officer who was the acting governor of the Lagos Colony in 1863.
[3] He visited Abeokuta in May 1863, travelling by gunboat to the mouth of the Aghoe creek, and then by canoe, accompanied by Commodore Wilmot of the British navy.
[4] He met the Bashorun of Abeokuta, who told him that the recent robberies of traders' property were due to the war with Ibadan.
[5] Mulliner died on 25 July 1863 while on board the African mail steamer Ethiope near Bathurst, aged 29.
[1] His three elder brothers spread their father's coach building businesses across the Midlands to Liverpool and down to London.