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Leslie Probyn

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Sir Leslie Probyn (1862–1938) KCMG was an administrator for the British Empire.

He was the son of Edmund Probyn, JP and DL and educated at Charterhouse School. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1884.[1]

He was an Attorney-General of British Honduras[2] and Grenada and Governor of Sierra Leone, Barbados and Jamaica. He was made a KCMG in 1909.[2]

Appointments

References

  1. ^ "Who's Who, 1935". Mocavo. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d "Obituaries". Glasgow Herald. 20 December 1938. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  3. ^ "Jamaica". Retrieved 18 June 2012.