61:. President John Chads was reported to have shown considerable personal courage, but little judgement or tact. On 2 August, he met a gathering of 1,500 to 2,000 protesters, but all he would promise to do was relay their grievances before the legislature (which could not meet, as all the other members had fled). One protester was shot (the only recorded death during the disturbances themselves), which led to the continuation of the rampage. By 3 August, the only white people remaining in the territory were John Chads himself, the Collector of Customs, a Methodist missionary and the island's doctor.
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England with his family and lived in Portsea, Hampshire, until his appointment as President of the British Virgin Islands in 1852. He died in Government House, Tortola, on 28 February 1854 with the rank of colonel.
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