William Cairns

Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix = Sir
name = William Cairns
honorific-suffix = KCMG

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office = Governor of Trinidad
term_start = May 2, 1874
term_end = May 27, 1874
lieutenant =
monarch = Queen Victoria
predecessor = James Robert Longden
successor = Henry Turner Irving
order2 = 4th
office2 = Governor of Queensland
term_start2 = January 23, 1875
term_end2 = March 14, 1877
lieutenant2 =
monarch2 = Queen Victoria
predecessor2 = George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
successor2 = Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy
birth_date = 1828
birth_place = Co. Down, Ireland, UK
death_date = death date|1888|7|9
death_place = London, England, UK
nationality = flagicon|UK British
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Sir William Wellington Cairns, KCMG (1828 – 1888) was a British colonial administrator, born in County Down, Ireland. He served in various senior colonial civil service posts in the British Empire before being appointed Governor of Queensland in January 1875. He held the post for two years before becoming acting Governor of South Australia. He subsequently returned to England where he died in London on 9 July 1888.

The settlement of Cairns in Queensland was named after him.

External links

* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030306b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography : Sir William Wellington Cairns]

succession box
before=Frederick Lyon Playfair
title=Lieutenant Governor of Malacca | years=1867 – 1869
after=Edward Wingfield Shawsuccession box
before=James Robert Longden
title=Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras | years=1870 – 1874
after=Robert Miller Mundysuccession box
before=James Robert Longden
title=Governor of Trinidad | years=1874
after=Henry Turner Irvingsuccession box
before=George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
title=Governor of Queensland | years=1875 – 1877
after=Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy