Colonial Despatches

Charles Justin MacCarthy was a British Colonial official who served as Governor of Ceylon from 1860 to 1864.1 Born in 1820, he worked in the Customs department in Turks Island before being appointed Auditor General of Ceylon in 1847.2 He became Colonial Secretary in 1851, was knighted in 1857 and was appointed Governor in 1860 by Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Duke of Newcastle.3 He died while on leave in Spa, Belgium on 14 August 1864.4

• 1. Death of the Governor of Ceylon, Daily News (London, England), 19 August 1864, 4.
• 2. Ibid.; William C. Sargeaunt and Arthur N. Birch, The Colonial Office List [1862] (London: Edward Stanford, 1862), 137. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t7gr6mk1g
• 3. Sargeaunt and Birch, The Colonial Office List [1862], 137; London Gazette, 10 July 1857, 2405. http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22020; Death of the Governor of Ceylon, 4.
• 4. Death of the Governor of Ceylon, 4.