page_title: Francis Pinkett
hierarchical_section_title: Francis Pinkett
caption_attribution_description: English: Sierra Leone. Group photograph taken February 1885. Many of the written details are illegible. The group includes: 1. Melvin Victor Dermont Stuart - Collector of Customs. 2. Captain J.N. Compton. 3. Robert Wade - Keeper of the Gaol (Freetown). 4. Dr. Robert Smith - Assistant Colonial Surgeon. 5. Thomas George Lawson - Government Inspector. 6. Reverend John Campbell - Assistant Colonial Chaplain. 7. C.H Moseley - Assistant Colonial Secretary. 8. James Hastings-Spaine - Postmaster. 9. Carroll - Master &amp; Registrar. 10. John Meheux - Sheriff. 11. Alfred Revington - Sanitory Inspector &amp; Assistant Inspector General of Police. 12. T.R. Pakenham - Assistant Colonial Secretary (Aborigines branch). 13. Mohammed Sanusi - Arabic Interpretor. 14. R.E. Pownall - Colonial Surveyor. 15. J.C. Gore. - Auditor-General. 16. T. Riseley Griffith - Colonial Secretary and Treasurer 17. Francis Pinkett - Chief Justice Administrator. 18. J.K. Donaldson - Queen's Advocate. 19. E.J. Cameron - Assistant Colonial Secretary &amp; Treasurer. 20. Edwin Adolphus - Police Magistrate. See here for additional information.
context_page_description: Francis Frederick Pinkett was an English colonial administrator who served as Governor of Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
  Francis was the younger son of Edward Pinkett of Trafalgar Square, Barnstaple. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Militia when he was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1861 and was called to the bar, Middle Temple in 1863.
  He was the Chief Justice of the Colony of Sierra Leone from 1881 until his death.
context_section_description: Francis Frederick Pinkett (1838-1887) was an English colonial administrator who served as Governor of Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
  Francis was the younger son of Edward Pinkett of Trafalgar Square, Barnstaple. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Militia when he was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1861 and was called to the bar, Middle Temple in 1863.
  He was the Chief Justice of the Colony of Sierra Leone from 1881 until his death.
caption: Francis Pinkett (seated, centre) photographed in 1885
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