William Robert Wolseley Winniett

Sir William Robert Wolseley Winniett (2 March 1793 – 4 December 1850) was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor general of Gold Coast at Cape Coast Castle. He worked to abolish the Atlantic slave trade on the Slave Coast of West Africa.

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