Gilbert Thomas Carter

Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter KCMG (* 1848, † 1927) was a Governor of The Gambia and represented Queen Victoria at the British colony of Gambia.

Life

Carter joined the Royal Navy in 1864, where on Sherbro of Sierra Leone, he first worked in West Africa as a paymaster. In 1873 he was involved in the war against the Ashanti. He then spent two years on the Leeward Islands. According to West Africa, he returned in 1879 as an official of the customs authorities in the Gold Coast back. As treasurer, he then worked from 1882 in the Gambia.

As the successor of James Shaw Hay Carter was then 1888, the first governor of the colony of Gambia after the colony was no longer managed for the second time together with Sierra Leone. Great Britain began in his tenure, the territory of the colony on the hinterland expand. Carter went to the local rulers in negotiations to expand the Protectorate.

1890 Carter left the Gambia, to be governor of the colony of Lagos, he had this post until 1897. After that, he was Governor of the Bahamas and Barbados.

Carter went into retirement in 1910 and died in 1927.