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unusual facts about Governor General of the Philippines



Narciso Clavería y de Palacios, 3rd Count of Manila

He was the grandson of Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa, a nineteenth-century Governor General of the Philippines from whom he inherited the title of Count of Manila.

Taft Commission

William Forbes, later Governor General of the Philippines, wrote that he could not remember any instance where a commissioner protested because he could not understand an issue on linguistic grounds.


see also

Diego Salcedo

Diego de Salcedo, Spanish army officer and Governor-General of the Philippines, 1663–1668

Francisco de la Cuesta

Francisco de la Cuesta (1661 – May 30, 1724), O.S.H. - was the 11th Archbishop of Manila from 1707 to 1722 and a Governor-General of the Philippines in 1719 to 1721.

Gilmore LRT Station

It is named after Eugene Allen Gilmore, an American Governor-General of the Philippines.

Governor Taft

William Howard Taft (1857–1930), Governor-General of the Philippines and Cuba