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governor-in-chief
governor-in-chief n. a governor of high rank; esp. the chief official appointed to govern a state, province, etc., under British sovereignty (now historical).The title of governor-in-chief was generally supplanted by Governor-General during the 19th cent., although it persisted until 1962 in Jamaica as the official title of the principal representative of the British Crown.
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1643 Proclam. Robert Earl of Essex 1 May in W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes (1644) 94 To will and require you by virtue of this Commission to take the said City [sc. Bristol] and Forces into your charge as Governour in chiefe, and by all possible wayes and meanes (except in point of Civill Government) to provide for the defence and security of the same.
1643 Proclam. Charles I 24 Nov. (single sheet) Robert Earle of Warwick is made Governor in chiefe, and Lord High Admirall of all those Islands and other Plantations inhabited, Planted, or belonging to any of Our Subjects within the Bounds, and upon the Coasts of America.
1683 London Gaz. 29 Oct. 1/2 Orders from Sir W. Stap'eton, Governor in Chief of the Leeward Islands, to go in search of several Pyrates.
1717 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1868) II. 712 We have constituted and appointed Samuel Shute Esq. our Captain General and Governor in chief in and over our Province of New Hampshire, in New England, in America.
1820 Edinb. Mag. Feb. 173/1 He..had held the situation, since 1801, of Governor in Chief of the important fortress of Gibraltar.
1851 H. Melville Present State Austral. 203 Van Diemen's Land is even yet only a lieutenancy, the Governor-in-Chief being stationed in New South Wales.
1901 S. Lane-Poole Hist. Egypt VI. ii. 18 The village sheykhs were subordinate to the district governors, who in turn reported to the governor-in-chief; but the central government interfered little with the district officers.
1950 Life 24 Apr. 153/1 As the wife of Jamaica's Governor in Chief Sir John Huggins, she would traditionally be expected to limit her duties to the pouring of tea or the laying of cornerstones.
1964 E. Arthur Toronto, No Mean City iv. 112 In 1841 Upper and Lower Canada became the Province of Canada under a Governor-in-chief (Lord Sydenham).
2010 Times (Nexis) 10 May 30 As his countless election posters indicate Mr Ampatuan Sr is standing—from jail—for vice-governor of Maguindanao province [sc. in the Philippines] after reaching his limit of three terms as its governor in chief.
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