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| 1668 births | |
| 1710 deaths | |
| barbadian people | |
| alumni of christ church, oxford | |
| fellows of all souls college, oxford | |
| british colonial governors and administrators | |
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Educated at Christ Church, Oxford , he was elected a fellow of All Souls , and subsequently served with the British forces in Flanders, being rewarded in 1695 with a captaincy in the Guards. In the same year he attended King William III on his visit to Oxford, and, in the absence of the public orator, was chosen to deliver the University oration. In 1697 , on the death of his father, he was appointed captain-general and commander-in-chief of the Leeward Isles. In 1703 he commanded the unsuccessful British expedition against Guadeloupe . After this he resigned his governorship, and spent the rest of his life in retirement and study on his Barbados estates. He died on the 7th of April 1710, bequeathing these (slave plantation) estates to the Society For The Propagation Of The Gospel In Foreign Parts for the foundation of a college in Barbados. This college, known as the Codrington College , was built in 1714-1742. To All Souls College, Oxford , he bequeathed books worth £6000 and £10,000 in money, out of which was built and endowed the Codrington library there. |
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