Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse ^54,764,825

  General Notes:

Entered the Ceylon civil service as writer in May 1828. Promoted to be assistant colonial secretary and clerk of the executive and legistlative councils in October 1833; district judge of Kandy, 1840; government agent for the western province, 1843; appointed superintendent of Honduras, 1851; Governor of British Guiana 1854-61; employed on a special mission to Venezuela, 1858; Governor of the , Cape of Good Hope, 1861-71 and Bombay 1872-77.
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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Resided: 10 April 1866, Flemings Hotel, 9 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London. ⁶⁰⁹

2. Resided: 25 October 1887, Queen Anne's Mansions, St. James's Park, London. ¹³

3. He had an estate probated on 23 December 1887 in Principal Registry. ¹³

Philip married Catherine Mary Templer, daughter of Francis James Templer and Unknown, on 19 December 1833 in Ceylon.⁸²⁴ (Catherine Mary Templer died on 6 October 1866 in Government House, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope ¹³.)