Edmond Gorges

Sir Edmond Howard Lacam Gorges, KCMG, rarely also written Edmund was a South African politician and Administrator of South West Africa, present-day Namibia.
Gorges became the first civilian South African administrator to assume responsibility for South West Africa on 31 October 1915. He held the office until 1 October 1920.
Gorges was married to Dora Faure, with whom he had two children.
He was Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. A Baobab in the former Bantustan of Ovamboland is named after him, after Gorges was the first administrator to visit this part of the country in 1916.