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John Bates Thurston
Sir John Bates Thurston was a British colonial official who served as a minister in Cakobau's Kingdom of Fiji before the cession of 1874. He then rose in the British colonial service to become governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific from 1888 until his death in 1897.
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