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{{Short description|British colonial administrator}} {{Use British English|date=December 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] [[The Honourable]] | name = Sir Harry Ord | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|CB}} | image = HarryStGeorgeOrd-1877-1880.jpg | imagesize = 200 | caption = In his official attire as Governor of Western Australia | order = 10th | office = Governor of Western Australia | term_start = 12 November 1877 | term_end = 9 April 1880 | predecessor = [[William Cleaver Francis Robinson|Sir William Robinson]] | successor = Sir William Robinson | order1 = 8th | office1 = Governor of the Straits Settlements | term_start1 = 16 March 1867 | term_end1 = 4 November 1873 | monarch1 = [[Queen Victoria]] | 1blankname1 = [[Chief Secretary for Administration|Colonial Secretary]] | 1namedata1 = [[Ronald MacPherson]]<br />[[James W.W. Birch]] | predecessor1 = [[William Orfeur Cavenagh|Sir William Orfeur Cavenagh]] | successor1 = [[Andrew Clarke (British Army officer, born 1824)|Sir Andrew Clarke]] | order2 = [[Governor of Bermuda]] | term_start2 = 1861 | term_end2 = 1864 | predecessor2 = [[Freeman Murray]] | successor2 = William Munroe | birth_date = {{birth date|1819|6|17|df=y}} | birth_place = [[North Cray]], [[Kent]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|1885|08|20|1819|6|17|df=y}} | death_place = [[Bad Homburg vor der HΓΆhe|Homburg]], Germany | death_cause = Heart attack | resting_place = [[Fornham St Martin]] | spouse = {{marriage|Julia Graham|1846}} | father = Henry Gough Ord | mother = Louisa Latham | relations = [[Craven Ord]] (paternal grandfather) | children = 3 | occupation = Colonial administrator }} '''Sir Harry St. George Ord''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCMG|CB}} (17 June 1819 β 20 August 1885) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Bermuda between 1861 and 1864, Governor of the Straits Settlements between 1867 and 1873, and Governor of Western Australia between 1877 and 1880.
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