Charles Justin MacCarthy

Charles Justin MacCarthy
12th Governor of British Ceylon
In office 22 October 1860 – 1 December 1863
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	Charles Edmund Wilkinson acting governor
Succeeded by	Terence O'Brien acting governor
Acting Governor of British Ceylon
In office 18 January 1855 – 11 May 1855
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	George William Anderson
Succeeded by	Henry George Ward
Acting Governor of British Ceylon
In office 18 October 1850 – 27 November 1850
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	The Viscount Torrington
Succeeded by	George William Anderson
12th Accountant General and Controller of Revenue
In office 28 May 1847 – 1 October 1851
Preceded by	H. Wright
Succeeded by	W. C. Gibson
Personal details
Born	1811
Died	1864

Charles Justin MacCarthy (1811–1864) was the 12th Governor of British Ceylon and the 12th Accountant General and Controller of Revenue. He was appointed on 22 October 1860 and was Governor until 1 December 1863. He also served as acting governor on two separate occasions. He was first appointed in 1850.

His parents were Donough and Mary MacCarthy, and he was born in Brighton. He was a relation of Nicholas Wiseman, and in the early 1830s was in Rome, with a view to entering the Roman Catholic priesthood. Under the influence of the ideas of Lamennais, however, he ceased theological studies. In Rome through Wiseman he met Monckton Milnes, who became a lifelong friend. Milnes then helped him into a colonial career.

MacCarthy was knighted in 1857. In office he adopted a policy of financial retrenchment. His main aim was to promote railway construction. He left Ceylon in December 1863, in poor health. He died at Spa, Belgium on 15 August 1864.

MacCarthy married in 1848 Sophia Brunel Hawes, eldest daughter of Sir Benjamin Hawes. They had a son, Charles Philip.

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