Alfred Savage

Sir Alfred William Lungley Savage (5 May 1903 – 5 March 1980)^[1] was the Governor of Barbados in 1949–51,^[2] and the colonial Governor of British Guiana in 1953–55.

On 9 October, 1953, upon instruction from Winston Churchill to stop what the Colonial Office called a brewing "Communist conspiracy", Savage dismissed the democratically elected government of Cheddi Jagan, suspended the constitution, and took full control of the colony, with the help of British troops.^[3] This took place just months after Jagan took office in 1953.

Savage was not particularly worried either before or after the intervention about communist influence in British Guiana. Savage was replaced by Sir Patrick Muir Renison in 1955, after Alan Lennox-Boyd had become uneasy about Savage and wanted a more forceful hand in Georgetown.^[4]

References

^ "Sir Alfred William Savage". Munzinger.de.
^ "Caribbean Barbados". British Empire. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
^ Rabe, Stephen G. (2005). U.S. intervention in British Guiana : a Cold War story ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-8078-5639-8.
^ Rabe, Stephen G. (2005). U.S. intervention in British Guiana : a Cold War story ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 39–40, 49. ISBN 0-8078-5639-8.

Government offices
Preceded by Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood	Governor of Barbados 1949–1953	Succeeded by Brigadier Sir Robert Arundell
Preceded by Sir Charles Campbell Woolley	Governor of British Guiana 1953–1955	Succeeded by Sir Patrick Muir Renison

v t e Governors of Barbados
Barbados (1627–1833)	H. Powell W. Deane C. Wolferstone J. Powell R. Wheatley^* W. Tufton Henry Hawley Richard Peers^* William Hawley^* Henry Huncks Philip Bell Francis Willoughby George Ayscue Daniel Searle^* Thomas Modyford^* Humphrey Walrond^* Francis Willoughby Henry Willoughby^* William Willoughby^* Samuel Barwick^* Henry Hawley^* William Willoughby Christopher Codrington^* Peter Colleton^* Jonathan Atkins^* John Witham^* Richard Dutton Edwyn Stede^* James Kendall Francis Russell Francis Bond^* Ralph Grey John Farmer^* Bevil Granville Mitford Crow George Lillington^* Robert Lowther William Sharpe^* John Frere^* Samuel Cox^* Henry Worsley Thomas Catesby Paget James Dotin^* Walter Chetwynd Emanuel Howe James Dotin^* Orlando Bridgeman Humphrey Howarth Thomas Gage Robert Byng James Dotin^* Thomas Robinson Henry Grenville Charles Pinfold Samuel Rous^* William Spry Samuel Rous^* Edward Hay^* John Dotin^* James Cunninghame John Dotin^* David Parry William Bishop^* George Poyntz Ricketts William Bishop^* Francis Mackenzie John Spooner^* George Beckwith James Leith John Foster Alleyne^* Stapleton Cotton John Skeete^* Samuel Hinds^* Henry Warde James Frederick Lyon
Barbados and the Windward Islands (1833–1885)	Lionel Smith Evan MacGregor Charles Henry Darling Charles Grey William Reid William Colebrooke Francis Hincks James Walker Rawson William Rawson Sanford Freeling^* John Hennessy George Strahan D. J. Gamble^* William Robinson
Barbados (1885–1966)	Charles Lees Walter Sendall James Hay Frederick Hodgson Gilbert Carter Leslie Probyn Charles O'Brien William Robertson Harry Newlands Mark Young Eubule Waddington Henry Bushe Hilary Blood Alfred Savage Robert Arundell John Stow
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^* Served as Acting Governor of Barbados.

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