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option'. Wyn-Harris was also opposed to the development of political parties in the Gambia. His first constitution in 1951 increased the number of elected members of the
Legislative Council from two to three. After the
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Senegal, rather than bowing out in a public ceremony. After his time in the Gambia, he was a member of the Devlin
Commission of Enquiry into the Nyasaland disturbances of 1959 and served as the Administrator of the
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773:MacDonnell
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