Sir Henry Grattan Bushe, (1 January 1886 – 23 August 1961) was a British colonial governor and lawyer. Bushe was born in Trinidad, the son of John Scott Bushe, the Colonial Secretary of Trinidad. An ancestor was the Irish judge Sir Charles Kendal Bushe. Bushe was educated at

Aysgarth School , established = 1877 , type = Preparatory independent day and boarding school , trust = , religious_affiliation = Church of England , president = , head_label = , head = Rob Morse , r_head_label ...

and

Denstone College Denstone College is a mixed, independent, boarding and day school in Denstone, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. It is a Woodard School, having been founded by Nathaniel Woodard, and so Christian traditions are practised as part of Colleg ...

. He was called to the bar in 1909, and joined the chambers of Sir Edward Marshall Hall. In 1917, he joined the

Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of c ...

, becoming Legal Adviser to the Colonial Office and the

Dominions Office The position of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was a British cabinet-level position created in 1925 responsible for British relations with the Dominions – Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa South Africa, officially t ...

in 1931. In 1941, Bushe was appointed

Governor of Barbados This article contains a list of viceroys in Barbados from its initial colonisation in 1627 by England until it achieved independence in 1966. From 1833 to 1885, Barbados was part of the colony of the Windward Islands, and the governor of Barbad ...

. The promotion was said to be without precedent, as Bushe was the first colonial governor to be appointed from the Colonial Office legal staff. He retired in 1946.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bushe, Grattan 1868 births 1961 deaths Governors of Barbados People educated at Aysgarth School People educated at Denstone College British barristers Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Companions of the Order of the Bath Civil servants in the Colonial Office 20th-century British lawyers