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Robert Townsend Farquhar
Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar was the first British governor of Mauritius, which Britain took from France in 1810. He governed from Port Louis until 1823, allowing the Franco-Mauritian planters to keep their law, language and religion. He signed treaties with Radama I of Madagascar against the slave trade, though slaves continued to be smuggled into the island.
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