{"id":2432,"date":"2025-04-16T07:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastatal1.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2432"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:40:53","slug":"avenue-wenceslas-bojer-1797-1856-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2432","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Sir William Stevenson (1805 \u20131863)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2432\" class=\"elementor elementor-2432\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abf7118 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"abf7118\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-388a657 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"388a657\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2d218a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c2d218a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>William Stevenson was born in Jamaica in 1805.<\/p><p>William Stevenson was a barrister and became a British colonial administrator. He first served as superintendent of\u00a0British Honduras\u00a0from 1854\u20131857 before being appointed Governor of Mauritius in May 1857.<\/p><p>William Stevenson\u2019s administration was highly praised. He adopted a more equitable system for the payment of the Civil Service and the salaries of the officials were raised with prosperous increments.\u00a0 Stevenson was regarded as an honest public figure who was highly esteemed by the planters\u2019 society.<\/p><p>In 1859, William Stevenson founded the Powder Mills Orphan Asylum in Pamplemousses Village at the site of the Old Powder Mills.\u00a0 The purpose of the orphan asylum was to house Indian and African orphans; aged between 7 and 17, coming from Indian immigrants or the freed slave background. More than a hundred orphaned children were taken care of, educated and trained in industrial pursuits. It was important for William Stevenson to set up a place where children would be taken care of <em>\u201cto become useful members to the community\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p>Governor William Stevenson pressed the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that \u201cMauritians should be brought to appreciate liberal institutions and popular power for the purposes of government and legislation\u201d. Although Stevenson\u2019s advice was turned down; it paved out the way for Mauritius to obtain a constitution and an elective system under the helm of Governor Pope Hennessy.<\/p><p>In 1862 Governor Stevenson was invested as a Knight Commander of the\u00a0Order of the Bath\u00a0<\/p><p>Sir William Stevenson died at R\u00e9duit in 1863 and was buried in Moka, Mauritius.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/p><p>On 20June 1867, Public officials of the British colony erected a statue in the yard of the Government house in honour of Sir William Stevenson.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Stevenson was born in Jamaica in 1805. William Stevenson was a barrister and became a British colonial administrator. He first served as superintendent of\u00a0British Honduras\u00a0from 1854\u20131857 before being appointed Governor of Mauritius in May 1857. William Stevenson\u2019s administration was highly praised. 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