Francis Norris | |
Order: | 4th |
Office: | Surveyor General of Ceylon |
Term Start: | 1833 |
Term End: | 1846 |
Predecessor: | Gualterus Schneider |
Successor: | H. Chims |
Birth Date: | 1801 |
Birth Place: | Ireland[1] |
Death Date: | 4 January 1879 (aged 78)[2] |
Death Place: | Holland Park, London |
Birthname: | Francis Brooke Norris |
Francis Brooke Norris (1801 – 4 January 1879) was a British colonial administrator who was the fourth Surveyor General of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1833, succeeding Gualterus Schneider, and held the office until 1846. He was succeeded by W. H. Simms.[3]
He married Isabella Gillio in 1829 in Bombay. She died in 1837, aged 27.[4] In 1839, he married secondly to Elizabeth Jane Cooper, daughter of Jonathon Sisson Cooper, Comptroller-General of Stamp Department of Ireland.[5]