Robert George Wyndham Herbert
1831–1905
Colonial administrator and civil servant. BA, Oxford, 1854. Parliamentary under-secretary, Colonial Office, 1858. Premier, Queensland, Australia, 1859–66. Assistant under-secretary, Board of Trade, 1868–70. Assistant under-secretary, Colonial Office, 1870; permanent under-secretary, 1871–92.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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