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Sir Alfred William Lungley Savage (5 May 1903 – 5 March 1980) was the Governor of Barbados in 1949–51, and the colonial Governor of British Guiana in 1953–55.

On 9 October, 1953, upon instruction from Winston Churchill to stop what the Colonial Office called a brewing "Communist conspiracy", Savage dismissed the democratically elected government of Cheddi Jagan, suspended the constitution, and took full control of the colony, with the help of British troops. This took place just months after Jagan took office in 1953.

Savage was not particularly worried either before or after the intervention about communist influence in British Guiana. Savage was replaced by Sir Patrick Muir Renison in 1955, after Alan Lennox-Boyd had become uneasy about Savage and wanted a more forceful hand in Georgetown.

References

1. "Sir Alfred William Savage". Munzinger.de.
2. "Caribbean Barbados". British Empire. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
3. Rabe, Stephen G. (2005). U.S. intervention in British Guiana : a Cold War story ( ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-8078-5639-8.
4. Rabe, Stephen G. (2005). U.S. intervention in British Guiana : a Cold War story ( ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 39–40, 49. ISBN 0-8078-5639-8.

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Barbados and the Windward Islands (1833–1885)	Lionel Smith Evan MacGregor Charles Henry Darling Charles Grey William Reid William Colebrooke Francis Hincks James Walker Rawson W. Rawson Sanford Freeling John Hennessy George Strahan D. J. Gamble William Robinson
Barbados (1885–1966)	Charles Lees Walter Sendall James Hay Frederick Hodgson Gilbert Carter Leslie Probyn Charles O'Brien William Robertson Harry Newlands Mark Young Eubule Waddington Henry Bushe Hilary Blood Alfred Savage Robert Arundell John Stow
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