Sir Gordon Guggisberg Sir Gordon Guggisberg, who has died at
the age of 61, was a magnificent type of colonial administrator. He was extremely intelligent, he was a fine player of almost every kind of game, and he had great powers of physical endurance. These qualities he placed unreservedly at the service of the countries in which he was employed. His exhausting and hazardous survey of Nigeria was masterly. When he became Governor of the Gold Coast Colony he took an intense interest in the education of the natives, and his personal study of their customs and capabilities enabled him, and them, to make rapid pro- gress. He founded trade and handicraft schools, adopt- ing, as the Times says, the methods of Boy Scout training. Under his rule the extension of railways and docks, and the application of electricity, was very remarkable. Had be lived he would no doubt have done equally good work in British Guiana, to which he was recently appointed Governor.
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