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| 1804 births | |
| west, martin | |
| 1849 deaths | |
| alumni of balliol college, oxford | |
| kwazulu-natal province | |
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Martin West studied at Balliol College, Oxford , before joining the British East India Company . He served in Bombay but had to retire on grounds of ill-health and became Resident Magistrate in Grahamstown , South Africa . From this post, he was appointed the first Lieutenant-Governor and the first civilian administrator of the recently annexed territory of Natal in 1845, still a dependency of the Cape. Joyce’s short biographical entry describes him as "a moderate administrator, …(who) suffered from poor health and, ill-supported by the British government, … achieved negligible progress during his term of office". He was retired from the Natal governorship in 1849 and died that year. Durban ’s West Street is named after him. |