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'I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons ... Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one's life'.Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands.As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected pro

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Author

Great Britain. Colonial Office;Great Britain. Colonial Office.;Lawrence, David Russell;Woodford, C. M

Publisher

Australian National University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781925022032

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography