Men-at-the-Bar/Pine, Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell
Pine, Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell, K.C.M.G. 29 Sept., 1871, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1840, lieut.-governor of Natal 1849-56 governor 1873-5, Queen's advocate Sierra Leone 1841-50, acting governor 1848, governor and commander-in-chief of Gold Coast settlement 1856-9, lieut.-governor of St. Christopher's 1859, acting governor of Antigua 1866, governor-in-chief Leeward Islands 1869-73, author of The African Colonies in the Encyclopædia Britannica, knighted at Windsor Castle 28 Nov., 1856, a student of Gray's Inn 9 June, 1831, called to the bar 28 April, 1841, a bencher 26 May, 1880, treasurer 1885 (eldest son of Benjamin Chilley Pine, Esq., late of Tunbridge Wells, Kent); born , 1813; married 1st, , dau. of John Campbell, of Lochead, Argyll; she died , ; he married 2ndly, , 1859, Margaretta, dau. of late Col. J. Simpson, Bengal army, and has issue (see Foster's Baronetage).
- Ravenscroft, Monmouth; Oriental Club, W.