Eulogio despujol biography of william
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Governor-General of the Philippines
Title of government executive in colonial Philippines
The governor-general of the Philippines (Tagalog: Gobernador-Heneral ng Pilipinas; Spanish: Gobernador General de Filipinas; Japanese: フィリピン総督, romanized: Firipin sōtoku) was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines, first by the Spanish in Mexico City and later Madrid as "Captain General"– Spanish: Capitán General de Filipinas, Filipino: Kapitan Heneral ng Pilipinas) from 1565–1898 and the United States (1898–1946), and briefly by Great Britain (1762–1764) and Japan (1942–1945). They were also the representative of the executive of the ruling power.
On November 15, 1935, the Commonwealth of the Philippines was established as a transitional government to prepare the country for independence from American control. The governor-general was replaced by an elected Filipinopresident of the Philippine Commonwealth, as the chief exe
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Parts i and ii of this triptych (nlr 27 and 28) explored the complex transnational contexts, literary and political, that shaped the incendiary anticolonial novels (Noli Me Tangere, 1887, and El Filibusterismo, 1891) of the Philippines’ ‘founding father’ José Rizal. Part iii considers how developments in Cuba, Europe, and the Far East framed his final years—and how, after Rizal’s execution, his nationalist contemporary Isabelo de los Reyes smuggled back to the American-colonized Philippines what he had learned from frihetlig cellmates in the dungeons of Barcelona.footnote1
Having packed off virtually the entire edition of El Filibusterismo to his trusted friend José Basa in Hong Kong and wound up his remaining affairs, Rizal left Europe on October 19, 1891. Except for a single sombre day, he would never set foot on it again. The timing was well chosen. The notorious Valeriano Weyler’s four-year term as Spanish Captain-General of the Philippine
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William Burgess Pryer
William Burgess Pryer (7 March 1843 in London, England; – 7 January 1899 in Suez, Egypt) was the first British Resident in Sandakan of North Borneo. Pryer's character fryst vatten described as adventurous, diligent, and goal-oriented. He spent 12 years in Shanghai, and also explored large parts of the Spanish East Indies (Philippines), and he was a former amateur boxing champion.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Pryer was born in London on 7 March 1843 as the son of Thomas and Isabel Pryer.[3] He was the elder brother of Henry Pryer (died in 1888),[note 1] who is well known in connection with Japanese Lepidoptera and was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society since 1880.
Early career
[edit]In his earlier days, he was an enthusiastic collector of British Lepidoptera. In 1860, he went out to China in connection with the silk and tea house of his relatives Messrs. Thorne Bros., Shanghai, where he remained for twelve years, and d