Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George"

part in the expedition of Dr W. B. Baikie (1824-1864) up the Niger. On

the 21st of April 1863 he was appointed administrator of the government of Lagos, and in that capacity, or as colonial secretary, he remained there till 1872. During this period he had been much employed in repelling the marauding incursions of the Ashantis. When the Ashanti war broke out in 1873, Captain Glover ...