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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

William Owen Lanyon

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A cabinet card showing the colonial administrator and British Army officer William Owen Lanyon (1842-1887) in Jamaica, where he served as Private Secretary to Sir John Peter Grant, the island's Governor from 1868 to 1873. Lanyon is the man on the left, holding the horses' reins.

Photographer: Ernesto Bavastro was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1837 and was a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, he died in Kingston, Jamaica in 1888.
 
A cabinet card showing the colonial administrator and British Army officer William Owen Lanyon (1842-1887) in Jamaica, where he served as Private Secretary to Sir John Peter Grant, the island's Governor from 1868 to 1873. Lanyon is the man on the left, holding the horses' reins.

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