William Stevenson (colonial administrator)

Sir William Stevenson KCB (1805 – 9 February 1863) was a Jamaican-born British colonial administrator who served as the 9th Governor of Mauritius from 20 September 1857 to 9 January 1863.

Stevenson's grandmother (née Lawrence) was descended from Henry Lawrence, President of Cromwell's Council of State, whose son founded a plantation in Jamaica in the 17th century.

He first served as superintendent of British Honduras from 1854–1857 before being appointed Governor of Mauritius in May 1857.

[4][5] He married a Miss Allwood, and had a son, William Lawrence Stevenson, and a daughter, who married Colonel Sir Francis Marindin.

His second wife was Caroline Octavia Biscoe, and their son was Francis Seymour Stevenson, M.P.