13 Facts About Frederick Broome

Sir Frederick Napier Broome was a colonial administrator in the British Empire, serving in Natal, Mauritius, Western Australia, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.

Frederick Broome has signed his name as F Napier Broome.

The couple moved to New Zealand where Frederick Broome had a sheep station, in the Malvern Hills, province of Canterbury.

Frederick Broome returned to London in 1869, and for the following six years was a regular contributor to The Times, being the newspaper's correspondent at the Duke of Edinburgh's marriage at St Petersburg, and on many other occasions.

Frederick Broome wrote literary reviews, art critiques, and miscellaneous articles.

Frederick Broome published two volumes of verse, Poems from New Zealand and The Stranger of Seriphos, and contributed verse to the Cornhill, Macmillan's Magazine, and other periodicals.

Frederick Broome was selected by the Earl of Carnarvon, in 1875, to proceed with Lord Garnet Wolseley on a special mission to Natal, as colonial secretary of that colony.

Frederick Broome held that post until 1878, when he was promoted to the colonial secretaryship of Mauritius, where he administered the government in 1879, and was lieutenant-governor of the island from 1880 to 1888.

Frederick Broome was the 14th governor of Mauritius from 9 Dec 1880 to 5 May 1883.

Frederick Broome was created CMG in 1877, and KCMG in 1884.

Frederick Broome finally left Western Australia in December 1889, on a mission to England in connection with the Constitution Bill, and his tenure as governor ended in September 1890.

Frederick Broome was transferred to serve as acting governor of Barbados in the West Indies and, in July 1891, was appointed governor of Trinidad.

Frederick Broome died in London in 1896 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.