sentences:  In 1801, he was appointed Governor of the Bahamas and in 1803–05 Captain General and Governor of Tobago.In 1808, when his two cousins, Andrew Colvile (Wedderburn), and Lord Selkirk, became interested in the Hudson's Bay Company, he followed.He was appointed a member of the HBC's London Committee in November 1811, a few months after the Company had granted land to Selkirk, for the establishment of his colony.