Education and Career
Harry Ord was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, (1835–1837). He served in the Royal Engineers, (1837–1856), principally in the West Indies, West Africa, and the Anglo-French expedition to the Baltic, (1854). He held many important colonial posts, such as:
- Commissioner of the Gold Coast, (1855–1856)
- Commissioner at the Courts of Paris and the Hague, (1856–1857)
- Governor of Dominica, (1857–1861)
- Governor of Bermuda, (1861–1864)
- Special Commissioner to West Africa, (1864–1867)
- Governor of Straits Settlements, (1867–1873)
- Governor of Western Australia, (1877–1880)
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