page_title: William Winniett
hierarchical_section_title: William Winniett
caption_attribution_description: English: Cleopatra 32 Guns Launched at Bristol, December, 1779
context_page_description: Sir William Robert Wolseley Winniett was the Governor General of Gold Coast at Cape Coast Castle. He worked to abolish the slave trade on the Slave Coast of West Africa.
context_section_description: Sir William Robert Wolseley Winniett (b. 2 March 1793, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. - d. 4 Dec. 1850, Accra - Ghana) was the Governor General of Gold Coast at Cape Coast Castle (Ghana).  He worked to abolish the slave trade on the Slave Coast of West Africa.
caption: Winniett's first ship HMS Cleopatra
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