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John Hawley Glover
John Hawley Glover was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as administrator of the British colony of Lagos for most of the years from 1863 to 1872. He extended British influence into the Yoruba hinterland and raised an armed Hausa police force, the forerunner of the Nigerian army. He later led a column in the Anglo-Ashanti War of 1873–74 and was twice Governor of Newfoundland.
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